The Harry and Margery Boswell Art Collection: Artworks
- John Bellany, Woman of the North Sea.
- Elizabeth Blackadder, Untitled.
- John Byrne, Juggling Harlequin.Steven Campbell, Portrait of Tom Normand.
- Calum Colvin, Mute Swan.
- Ken Currie, Age of Uncertainty.
- Ken Currie, Reprisal.
- Alan Davie, Zurich Improvisations XII.
- Paul Furneaux, Black Madonna.
- John Houston, Untitled.
- Ian Howard, Drago.
- Callum Innes, XI
- Elspeth Lamb, The Gift.
- Patricia Macdonald, Braided river and ancient pines, Glen Feshie, Cairngorms.
- Patricia Macdonald, Lochan Uaine (The Green Lochan) below the Angel's Peak of Carn an t-Sabhail, Cairngorms.
- Will Maclean, Bird Altar.
- Will Maclean, The Tanera Suite.
- William McCance, Machine Moloch or Machine Gods.
- William McCance, The Engineer, His Wife and Family.
- William McCance, Tree Trunk Composition.
- June Redfern, Early Morning Mist.
- Elaine Shemilt, Image in a Bell Jar.
- Alison Watt, Untitled.
- Adrian Wiszniewski, For Max.
Calum Colvin (born 1961)
Mute Swan
1994
Cibachrome print: artist's proof
HC1999.3
Calum Colvin was born in Glasgow and studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee from 1979 to 1983. From 1983 to 1985 he undertook postgraduate study in photography at the Royal College of Art, London. He is among the most important contemporary Scottish photographers and exhibits throughout the world.
Colvin's photographs are complex. He builds a stage set from old furniture and other objects. Colvin paints the set with a scene, often from the history of art. Finally he photographs the set. The scene and objects join into a single vision, often telling a story or forming an allegory. Mute Swan is from the series of allegories based on bird subjects titled 'Ornithology', exhibited in London in 1996.
