Charles Oppenheimer's Diploma Work depicts the town of Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway in winter. Kirkcudbright is a small burgh founded in 1330 at the mouth of the river Dee. In his painting, Oppenheimer has presented an aerial view of the High Street featuring the distinctive form of the Tolbooth with its spire on the left. This building is seventeenth-century in origin and its conical stone spire is capped by a weathervane in the form of a boat. It is now the Tolbooth Art Centre. Behind the Tolbooth is the Kirkcudbright Academy on St Mary's Wind. In the distance lies fields with the frozen form of the river Dee cutting across the landscape. Kirkcudbright became an artists' colony in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, popular initially with the Glasgow Boys when it was dubbed the 'Glasgow School in the Country' and then with Jessie Marion King and E.