Taking over the top level of Modern One, this changing programme of displays offers a brand new way to experience the nation's collection. Each room brings to light rarely displayed yet fascinating ...

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 ...

The Glasgow Boys 1880–1900 The Glasgow Boys represent the beginnings of modernism in Scottish art. In the early 1880s, disillusioned by the artistic establishment’s emphasis on history painting, they ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mark Boyle (1934–2005) was born in Glasgow. During the 1960s he collaborated with his partner Joan Hills (1931–2024) in making assemblages of junk and found objects, before moving on to produce ...

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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.

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 ...

Originally apprenticed to a goldsmith, Henry Raeburn showed enormous artistic talent as a young man. In 1784 he moved to London where he met the important portrait painter Joshua Reynolds. He spent ...