Tayside Medical History Museum Art Collection
The Tayside Medical History Museum has a small but significant collection of art which is displayed around Ninewells Hospital & Medical School. This mostly comprise portraits of local medical personalities and benefactors, as well as views of hospital buildings and miscellaneous works. Many of these come from Dundee Royal Infirmary, which closed in 1998.
Some of these paintings are displayed in lecture theatres and meeting rooms which require an appointment to visit, but a selection of works from the collection is on permanent public display in one of the corridors overlooking the Ian Low Centre on level 7 - click here to find out more.
You can see some of the collection below, and click on the links for more.
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The Poor Doctor & the Rich Patient, 1840 Engraving by J & H Jenkins & W McDowall after a cartoon by Edme Jean Pigal (1794-1872) DUNUC ARTS:2469
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The Rich Doctor & the Poor Patient, 1840 Engraving by J & H Jenkins & W MacDowall after a cartoon by Edme Jean Pigal (1794-1872) DUNUC ARTS:2470 |
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Icon of Virgin Mary and the Baby Jesus Unknown artist This icon was presented to Dundee Royal Infirmary in 1935 by Miss May MacDonald who trained there as a nurse. It hung in the ward of a hospital where she worked in Dvinsk (also known as Daugavpils, the second largest city in Latvia, then part of the Soviet Union) and was given to her in the 1920s by the priest in charge of the Russian Church there. It was later passed to the Ninewells Chaplaincy and then to the Tayside Medical History Museum. DUNUC ARTS:3382 |
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In Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber, 1970s Oil on plywood Elizabeth A Maxwell Hill Hill experienced the oxygen chamber as a patient at the Multiple Sclerosis Clinic in Peddie Street, Dundee. DUNUC ARTS:3334 |
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Estado de Gracia, 1998 Oil on canvas Andrew Hay In 1998 the Tayside Medical History Museum staged an exhibition at Ninewells Hospital called Colour & Warmth, showing the results of artist Andrew Hay’s work with patients at the hospital. Hay was inspired to paint a portrait of one of the patients, Hugh McColl (known as Shuggy). Shuggy (then in his mid-twenties) was severely disabled, unable to speak or control the movement of his limbs. Hay was struck by the intensity of his expression, and drew parallels to El Greco’s painting of Christ, El Expolio. This extraordinary painting was the result, and a rare example of a portrait of a disabled person in a public art collection. In 2008 the painting was purchased as a tribute to the first curator of the Tayside Medical History Museum, the late Laura Adam, thanks to private donations and to a grant from the National Fund for Acquisitions, administered with Government funds by National Museums Scotland. DUNUC ARTS:3412 |
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Untitled, 2011 Lithograph on paper Tanya Hendrie Created as part of a project at the Tayside Medical History Museum by Level 3 Illustration students at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design. DUNUC ARTS:4202 |
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Sunnyside Hospital, 2011 Still from Powerpoint Connor Clark Created as part of a project at the Tayside Medical History Museum by Level 3 Illustration students at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design. DUNUC ARTS:4204 |