This spectacular room at the heart of the Portrait Gallery houses a wealth of research resources on Scottish portraiture. The displays in the Library explore some surprising types of portraiture, from ...
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This celebratory display of works by internationally renowned Scottish artist Bruce McLean, marks his 80th birthday. Trace McLean’s humorous and lively six-decade long inquiry into sculpture and revel ...
This display presents a selection of Scottish art created after the First World War. In the 1920s Scottish artists engaged with the European avant-garde, creating strikingly stylised portraits and ...
The eighteenth century was a dynamic era, informed by new, ‘enlightened’ ideas about mankind and its place in the world. It ended however in violence, with revolutions in America and France. European ...
Discover the effects of painting outdoors on European art 1825–1885, with early works by some of the Impressionists, including Pissarro and Monet as well as a few of the artists who inspired them.
Guthrie became one of the leading painters in the group of artists called the Glasgow Boys. His early works of rural subjects painted with broad square brush strokes show the strong influence of ...
Towards the end of the 1880s artists in Scotland began to respond to Symbolism, a movement with literary origins. This display includes works that show how Scottish Symbolism was boosted by the Celtic ...
In this comparatively simple portrait, Leibovitz relies on intimacy for effect. Her aim was to immortalise John and Yoko's deep love for one another. But within hours of taking this photograph John ...
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