Ben Ledi (1914)

David Young 'D.Y.' Cameron

oil on canvas

Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

Photo credit: Tate

Classification:

Painting

Materials:

Canvas, Oil

Physical Object Description:

Inscribed: ‘D. Y. Cameron’ bottom left.

Dimensions:

126.5 x 112 cm

Accession Number:

N03209

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1917

Scheme:

Historic Purchase by Committee

Ownership history:

Purchased by the Contemporary Art Society, 1914; presented to the Tate Gallery, 1917

Relationship:

Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

D. Y. Cameron painted this snowclad view of Ben Ledi, a ‘Corbett’ mountain in the Trossachs, Stirlingshire, Scotland, early in 1914. He showed it the Royal Academy, London in the same year when it was purchased by the Contemporary Art Society and displayed by them in their Modern Paintings exhibition in Belfast in November.

Cameron had moved to Kippen, Stirlingshire, in 1898 and this remained his home for the rest of his career. His house, Dun Eaglais, commanded a view of Ben Ledi and the Grampians. A. M. Hind (1880-1957), who was to become the Keeper of the Department of Prints, British Museum and the Contemporary Art Society’s Prints and Drawings Fund administrator, succeeding Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) in both in 1935, published a 1911 etching of the same view in his 1924 monograph.

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