While serving as Vassar's president, Fergusson also contributed her administrative talents as a member of the Boards of Trustees of the Ford Foundation from (1989–2001) and the Mayo Foundation / Mayo Clinic from 1988 to 2002.
Frances Hodgson Burnett | Frances Fox Piven | Frances McDormand | Hurricane Frances | Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet | Frances Spence | Frances Curran | Frances | Mary Frances Berry | Frances Yates | Frances Itani | Frances Hyde, Countess of Clarendon | Frances Bean Cobain | Sir James Fergusson | Frances Lankin | Frances Black | Frances Arnold | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Frances Moore Lappé | Frances Conroy | Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset | Frances Burney | Frances Bavier | Fergusson Island | Fergusson College | Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux | Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet | Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson | Frances Wood | Frances Wilson Grayson |
Frances Gertrude Claire Russell, the daughter of Robert Anthony Gilbert and Pauline (née Parmet) Russell, was educated at St Mary's School, Princethorpe and went to University College, London to read Anthropology, graduating BSc in 1970.
The gallery specializes in twentieth century and contemporary Scottish paintings, and focuses largely on the work of the four "Scottish Colourists": F. C. B. Cadell, J. D. Fergusson, Leslie Hunter, and Samuel Peploe.