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MacPherson worked in a variety of styles from the baroque of department stores such as the Co-Operative Central Halls he designed in Derby and elsewhere, to the 'Queen Anne' of the now demolished Children's Hospital in Derby. He was however, perhaps happiest designing in the Tudor style made popular during the Arts and Crafts movement.
In 1994, MacPherson's work was exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. [4] [5] The National Gallery of Victoria hosted a survey of his work the following year. [4] A major retrospective of MacPherson's work was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney and Perth's Art Gallery of Western Australia in 2001, curated by ...
Between 1880 and 1884, Macpherson studied in Switzerland, with the artist Auguste-Henri Berthoud. In 1885, she returned to Edinburgh and exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy for the first time. Macpherson began to exhibit her work at the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts from 1887 onwards. In 1889, Macpherson moved to Paris.
According to a CBC profile, Macpherson enjoys making art and playing music in his spare time. He volunteers for the charity Sick Kids Hospital, a major pediatric teaching hospital located in ...
Robert Turnbull Macpherson was born on 27 February 1814 in Dalkeith, Scotland, outside the city of Edinburgh. [1] Although family friend and author Margaret Oliphant described him as a close relative of Clan Macpherson chief Ewan Macpherson of Cluny and "the nearest male relative" of poet James Macpherson, [2] his exact relations are ambiguous. [3]
The interiors contain the original paneling with ornamental carving, and still show the "elegance of the lifestyle of colonial elites," as well as souvenirs of Macpherson's life and times and period furniture by craftsmen such as Martin Jugiez. The furniture is from the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. [7]