Photo of the week
Exhibition commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Second World War opens at the Gateway Galleries.
White Gables by Charles Oppenheimer (1875-1961) forms part of a new exhibition running at the Gateway Galleries. Recording Capturing a country threatened by war, 1939-1945 displays a collection of artworks from the Recording Scotland project, an initiative launched during the Second World War. The project collected contemporary art during the 1940s, which depicted landscapes, buildings and traditional ways of life threatened by warfare.
The Recording Scotland Collection was given to the University of St Andrews in 1953, as a tribute to Sir James Irvine, the Chair of the Recording Scotland Committee who had been Principal of the University between 1920 and 1952. The collection consisted of 145 works; White Gables normally hangs in the Regent's Room of St Salvator's Hall.
The exhibition runs at the Gateway Galleries until March 7th 2009 (Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, Saturday 10am-5pm).