Gabrielle Muriel Keiller was a Scottish golfer, art collector, archaeological photographer and heir to Keiller's marmalade in Dundee.
11 Facts About Gabrielle Keiller
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Gabrielle Keiller bequested a large collection of Dada and Surrealist art to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
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Gabrielle Keiller was the older sister of Montgomery Harrison Wadsworth Ritchie, who ran the family's Texas ranch, known as JA Ranch.
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Gabrielle Keiller's paternal grandmother was Cornelia Adair, the American-born matriarch of Glenveagh Castle in County Donegal, Ireland who was married to John George Adair, a Scottish-Irish businessman and landowner.
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Gabrielle Keiller won the 1948 Ladies' Open Championships in Luxembourg, Switzerland and Monaco, and again in Monaco in 1949.
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Gabrielle Keiller became interested following a 1960 visit to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and through exposure to the work of Eduardo Paolozzi at the 1960 Venice Biennale.
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Gabrielle Keiller developed her collection of Dada and Surrealist art with the advice of the artist Roland Penrose.
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Gabrielle Keiller became a patron of both Paolozzi and Richard Long.
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Gabrielle Keiller commissioned Andy Warhol to make a 1976 portrait of her dachshund Maurice.
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Gabrielle Keiller volunteered at the Tate from 1976 to 1987, where she was known as the "Marmalade Queen".
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Gabrielle Keiller bought land to ensure the preservation of the monuments, and in 1938 created a museum at Avebury.