Aberdeen Artists Society

These exhibitions would go on to become the Gallery's main activity until such time that they, themselves, could build up a permanent collection.

[3] From the early 1930s the Society listed their clubhouse as being 1 Bon Accord Square, Aberdeen.

[4] The main aim of the society was and remains to facilitate "the Mutual improvement of Painting and the furtherance of Art in general in Aberdeen.

"[2] Despite having re-invented itself many times over the past 187 years the society has resolutely remained true to its original aims, "the promotion of Art in the NorthEast of Scotland and the placing of Aberdeen as a culturally relevant centre for the arts.

Particles of Light: A History of Aberdeen Artists' Society, 1927-2000 by John Morrison and Ian Baird.