Portfolio

About the Book: 

In Portfolio, art historian Tom Normand takes us on a journey into the vaults to rediscover a selection of paintings – some rarely on public view – from the 400 plus works in the Diploma Collection at the Royal Scottish Academy. Through this portfolio of some of the major works of leading Scottish artists, he offers an insightful new understanding of the Diploma Collection as ‘a manifest expression of the extraordinary creativity of Scottish art’.

THOMAS HAMILTON • WILLIAM HENRY PLAYFAIR • JOHN SYME • PATRICK GIBSON • JOHN STEELL • DAVID SCOTT • JAMES GILES • WILLIAM BORTHWICK JOHNSTONE • CHARLES LEES • JOSEPH NOEL PATON • SAMUEL BOUGH • WILLIAM FLEMING VALANCE • ROBERT GIBB • WILLIAM BEATTIE BROWN • JAMES PITTENDRIGH MACGILLIVRAY • ROBERT MCGREGOR • ROBERT ALEXANDER • JOSEPH DENOVAN ADAM • ROBERT LORIMER • JAMES GUTHRIE • EDWARD ARTHUR WALTON • JAMES PATERSON • HENRY LINTOTT • JOHN DUNCAN • SAMUEL JOHN PEPLOE • WILLIAM OLIPHANT HUTCHISON • JAMES COWIE • ROBERT SIVELL • PHYLLIS MARY BONE • ANNE REDPATH • WILLIAM GILLIES•  JOHN MAXWELL • WILLIAM MACTAGGART • ROBIN PHILIPSON • JOAN EARDLEY • ESME GORDON • FRANCES WALKER • WILLIAM BROTHERSTON • ELIZABETH BLACKADDER • JOHN HOUSTON • DAVID MICHIE • JAMES CUMMING • JACK KNOX • BILL SCOTT • WILL MACLEAN • JOYCE CAIRNS • ALEXANDER MOFFAT • ADRIAN WISZNIEWSKI • CALUM COLVIN • KATE WHITEFORD • MARIAN LEVEN • GLEN ONWIN•  GARETH FISHER • RONALD FORBES • WILLIE RODGER • STUART DUFFIN • JOHN BYRNE •  ARTHUR WATSON

About the Author:

TOM NORMAND was born in Aberdour in Fife. He was educated in Dunfermline, and subsequently took a degree in Sociology and Politics at Glasgow College. His doctoral thesis, in the Sociology of Culture, was taken at Durham University. He has taught at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee, and, since 1982, has lectured in the History of Art at the University of St Andrews. He has published widely in the history of British art with a special interest in developments in art and photography in Scotland. He has lectured, nationally and internationally, on Scottish art, culture and society.