Dundee Institute of Art and Technology

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The Dundee Technical Institute was established in 1888. In 1890 the art classes, which had been taught in the city from 1854, were affiliated to the Institute, although a full-time Art master was not appointed until 1892 when Thomas Delgaty Dunn took up this role. The Dundee Technical Institute and School of Art was formally established in 1911, when a new building was finally completed in Bell Street, Dundee, although classes had been taking place in this unfinished building since 1909. The inclusion of the School of Art in the title of the institution was partly the result of a bequest by James Duncan of Jordanstone and Drumfork in 1909. Duncan had hoped that his bequest would be used to found a separate School of Industrial Art but this did not happen.

In 1933 a new scheme changed the name and management structure of the college. The Dundee Institute of Art and Technology, as it was now called, had an overall governing body overseeing two separate colleges: Dundee College of Art and Dundee Technical College. Each college had its own principal. There was considerable friction between the two colleges and moves were made to locate the College of Art in its own building. A site was purchased in Perth Road in 1935, but the advent of the Second World War delayed work on the new building until the early 1950s.

In 1975 the Dundee Institute of Art and Technology split into two separate institutions: Dundee College of Technology and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art. Dundee College of Technology became Dundee Institute of Technology in 1988 and University of Abertay Dundee in 1994.

From the guide to the Records of Dundee Institute of Art and Technology, 1920-1975, (University of Dundee)

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