Dundee from Peacehill

Painting, oil entitled ‘Dundee from Peacehill’ by Emma U Cooper, 2006. This work was inspired by the etching, Dundee from Balgay Hill, by Charles G. L. Phillips. Viewed from Peacehill near Wormit in the north of Fife, Dundee sits on the banks of the River Tay with Sidlaw Hills rising behind. Towards the centre of the painting are the famous Tay Rail Bridge and the conical shape of Law Hill. Other large features of the cityscape are prominent, including the chimney stack of Cox's Camperdown Jute Works, the University of Dundee's Wellcome Building and many of the high rise flats which are still a feature of Dundee. This work was commissioned by the Trustees of the late William Sangster Phillips, son of Charles G. L. Phillips, 1863-1944, to encourage landscape painting at Duncan Jordanstone College of Art and Design.