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New Joan Eardley DisplayJoan Eardley
Until Sunday 20 October
Hunterian Art Gallery

A small selection of paintings and drawings is currently on display in the Hunterian Art Gallery to highlight the achievements of the artist Joan Eardley (1921–1963). Eardley is one of the most important Scottish artists of the 20th century, whose depictions of impoverished post-war Glasgow tenement children captured a vanishing world.

The highlight of the display is The Boy David, a sensitive portrait of David Samson, a young Glasgow boy on loan from a private collection. Related pastels and drawings from The Hunterian collection show her distinctive interpretations of the Townhead area of Glasgow, its local people, and the Samson family.

The display, marking 50 years since her death, is complemented by exhibitions at the Lillie Art Gallery in Milngavie (4-29 May 2013) and The Portland Gallery (1-17 May 2013)  in London. In addition a new publication titled Joan Eardley by Christopher Andreae (Lund Humphries in association with The Scottish Gallery and the Portland Gallery, April 2013) provides a fresh assessment of her work.

 

Scottish Landscapes
28 October 2013 - 13 July 2014
Hunterian Art Gallery

An opportunity to see recently acquired and rarely exhibited landscape paintings and studies by some of the most celebrated Scottish painters, from Andrew Wilson to David Wilkie.


Art on Paper

Reynolds in Black and White
13 September 2013 - 5 January 2014
Hunterian Art Gallery

Celebrity portraits by leading eighteenth-century artists were popularised through engravings. To complement our major exhibition on Allan Ramsay, this display of mezzotints by some of the greatest practitioners of the art explores the prints made after portraits by Ramsay's great contemporary, Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792).


Object in Focus

The Old Pretender’s Medal Case
Until 31 October 2013
Hunterian Museum

A recent acquisition, this unique Jacobite item, bound in Italian red Morocco leather, was commissioned by the Old Pretender, James III, in Rome about 1725 and bears his coat of arms on the front and back. Medals were still used at that time as a means of propaganda and the Jacobites produced many during their exile in France and then Italy. James III kept this case on his desk during his own years of exile in Rome.