Alec Grieve

[3] In 1893 Grieve held a solo exhibition from his Castle Street studio, at which landscape paintings were the most acclaimed.

But Grieve’s colour scheme gradually brightened, as can clearly be seen by comparing his two views of Pont du Cheval, Bruges in Dundee's permanent collection.

[4] Grieve painted symbolist or religious works such as Death and the Miser (1893), Sancta Spirita (1897) and The Longing of Eve (1898) that sought to express his intellectual ideals.

Finis (1898) was widely praised, and after its debut at the Graphic Arts Association exhibition was shown at the Glasgow Institute and Royal Scottish Academy.

[9] Grieve died in 1933 just a few days after the opening of his group exhibition at the Victoria Galleries with Stewart Carmichael and John Maclauchlan Milne[10] (the three had previously shown together in the Dundee Art Society rooms in 1920).

A memorial exhibition of Grieve’s work was held two years later, at which it was noted that his work had “steadily advanced from a sort of poetical obscurity to notable brilliancy of colour”[11] A lithograph portrait of Grieve by Stewart Carmichael is in the collections of Dundee Art Galleries & Museums.