This display collates some of the most recognisable modern and contemporary portraits from the national collection. This rich survey of paintings, sculpture and works in other media features figures ...

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 ...

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 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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Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh was, alongside her husband Charles Rennie Mackintosh, one of the key figures in the emergence of the ‘Glasgow Style’ in the 1890s. Born near Wolverhampton, she settled in ...

Welcome! On this page you will find information about our Deaf-led tours in British Sign Language (BSL) as well as resources created for visitors with BSL as a first or preferred language. We run a ...

Discover the inspiration and power of the visual arts, through historic, modern and contemporary art. Gallery visits align closely with the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence to nurture creativity, ...

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Sir John Lavery Edward Arthur Walton, 1860 - 1922. Artist. With his fiancée Helen Law, 1859 – 1945 (Hokusai and the Butterfly) Dated 1889 At this date Glasgow was second city of the Empire, home to a ...