Hunterian Friends Turner in January and Modern Scottish Women
Published: 23 November 2015
Tuesday 19 January 2016
Tuesday 19 January 2016
10.45am – 2.30pm
Meet at Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, Edinburgh
Tickets: £25.00 per Friend
Please note, this event is now fully booked
Friends will be accompanied by Hunterian curator Anne Dulau Beveridge for this double bill of exhibitions in Edinburgh. Charlotte Topsfield, Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, Scottish National Gallery, will guide us around the annual display of Turner watercolours, spanning early topographical wash drawings to his atmospheric sketches of continental Europe from the 1830s and ‘40s. These delicate watercolours are on display for the month of January only, to preserve their luminous colours and pristine condition.
A light lunch at Modern 2 will be followed by an exclusive tour of Modern Scottish Women, Painters and Sculptors 1885-1965 with Alice Strang, Senior Curator, Scottish Gallery of Modern Art. This revelatory exhibition of work by Scottish women artists concentrates on painters and sculptors, uncovering their contribution to Scottish art history. More than 80 works are on show with familiar masterpieces alongside rarely seen work. Artists featured include Bessie MacNicol, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Joan Eardley and Bet Low.
For further information email Lee Scott or Eleanor Capaldi.
First published: 23 November 2015