20th Century Patient Artwork and Related Material

Works by identified and unidentified artist-patients comprising ten sketches by John Gilmour depicting his views of the treatment he received at the various hospitals in which he was a patient, including Crichton Royal Institution; seven pictures depicting farm scenes by J. G. L, a patient who spent time engaging in farm work while a patient at Crichton Royal Institution, and two photocopies of pictures by J. G. L.; one chalk drawing of a portrait of a lady by E. F., a patient at Crichton Royal in the 1940s; a pencil sketch of dragons by an unknown artist-patient; pencil sketches of male heads by an unknown artist-patient; a file of works by J. S. showing images of the hospital grounds; and a file containing eight pictures by three identified and several unknown artists. DGH1/7/3/2/1-DGH1/7/3/2/20 are mounted in the same style as the early patient artworks in DGH1/7/3/1.

c.1905-1995

38 items

It is thought that Dr J. Rutherford or Dr C. C. Easterbrook retained the works by John Gilmour, DGH1/7/3/2/1-7 and those by an unidentified artist-patient, DGH1/7/3/2/20 as these were found in and removed from an envelope attached to the back cover of C. R. I. Scrapbook, DGH1/6/17/1. DGH1/7/3/2/17 was found with the early patient artwork collected by Dr W. A. F. Browne, DGH1/7/3/1 and as a result was thought to be a much earlier work. The provenance of the other works is not clear.

Case Books, DGH1/5/21; C. R. I. Scrapbook, DGH1/6/17/1; Beveridge, Dr A. and Williams. M - Inside 'The Lunatic Manufacturing Company': the persecuted world of John Gilmour, DGH1/6/18/5. D. Fergusson - Pen and Ink Sketches, Db15(828)f, held at Ewart Library, Dumfries.

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The papers are available at Dumfries and Galloway Archives subject to conditions of UK Data Protection Act 1998, Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and NHS Records Management Code of Practice 2012. Subject to these restrictions, this material is being digitised by the University of Glasgow as part of a Wellcome Trust funded project. Material that is digitised will be accessed freely online through the Wellcome Library catalogue.