Papers of Dugald Sutherland MacColl, 1859-1948, painter, critic and art gallery director

Correspondence and other papers of Dugald Sutherland MacColl. Some 6,000 letters includes correspondence with many of the leading figures in the literary and artistic world between 1880 and 1940, eg W B Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Lady Gregory, Max Beerbohm, H G Wells, Charles Ricketts, Augustus John, Auguste Rodin, Roger Fry and Walter Crane. The archive also includes MacColl's copies of some 70 exhibition catalogues and photocopies of correspondence from D S MacColl to Eugnie Sellers, from originals in Girton College, Cambridge.

Dugald Sutherland MacColl was born in Glasgow in 1859. He was educated at the Glasgow Academy, University College School, University College London and Lincoln College, Oxford, and studied under Frederick Brown, Professor of Fine Art in London. He exhibited regularly with the New English Art Club and worked as an art critic successively on The Spectator, Saturday Review, and The Week-end Review. He was also editor of Architectural Review between 1901 and 1905. He was appointed Keeper of the Tate Gallery, London, between 1906 and 1911 and Keeper of the Wallace Collection between 1911 and 1924. An energetic administrator and controversialist, his publications include Nineteenth Century Art (1902) and a biography of P Wilson Steer. As well as writing poetry he founded the National Art Collections Fund. He died in 1948.

Source: The Concise Dictionary of National Biography 1901-1970 (OUP: Oxford, 1982)

The arrangement of this material reflects the original order in which it was received

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Transfer : History of Art : 1970 : ACCN 4591

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Originally donated by René MacColll to the History of Art department, University of Glasgow, in 1955

Gift : Mary Beard : 2000 : ACCN 4751

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