Mcintosh Patrick and Morrocco inspire city artists

In any city with an art institution as prestigious and well-respected as the Duncan of Jordanstone College, creative pursuits are always likely to flourish.

Dundee has been a beacon of artistic expression and opportunity over many years.

Perhaps the best-known Dundeebased artist of the last hundred years is James Mcintosh Patrick.

Mcintosh Patrick was born in Dundee in 1907 and in 1924 he began studying painting at Glasgow School of Art. He is now regarded as arguably the finest British landscape painter of the 20th Century, but at the outset of his career, he concentrated on etchings, only developing his talents for painting in the 1930s.

Mcintosh Patrick painted portraits and landscapes but is most widely known for his portrayals of the Scottish countryside, and those familiar Tay landscapes captured from his studio overlooking Magdalen Green.

Very different in style to James Mcintosh Patrick but no less distinctive was Alberto Morrocco.

From 1950 Morrocco was head of the School of Painting at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art.

Morrocco painted portraits of all Dundee University’s principals and, in 1977, the Queen Mother, then chancellor of the university, also sat for him.

The Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design stands today as the creative hub of the University of Dundee and the City itself, supporting new artists to develop and perfect their art. Andy Jackson is the university’s Learning & Teaching Librarian.