Asleep
Artist
Gordon Stewart Cameron
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1916 - 1994)
Date1951
Mediumoil on canvas
ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings
DimensionsOverall: Height: 76.6 cm, Width: 60.8 cm
Frame: Height: 90.7 cm, Width: 78.2 cm
Frame: Height: 90.7 cm, Width: 78.2 cm
AcquisitionPurchased in 1951 with income from the Macdonald Bequest.
Copyright© Gordon Stewart Cameron (2009)
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG002202
More About MeThrough sleep, we are able to mediate between the conscious and subconscious sides of the psyche, a backdrop that has been a source of inspiration for untold thousands of artists. Rather than dramatizing the exentricies of the subject's dream space, however, Cameron here depicts her asleep in the comfortable repose of an armchair, perhaps inviting the viewer to decide the nature of her dream.
Sylvia Gosse
Henryk Gotlib
Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Sir Godfrey Kneller
Neville Lewis
James Cassie
John Bulloch Souter
Artist Unknown
Artist Unknown
Sir Peter Lely
