Glasgow - Kelvingrove Museum & Art Gallery
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Time should be set aside to visit the Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery. Opened in 1901 it probably has the finest municipal collection of British and continental paintings in the United Kingdom. Van Gogh's "Portrait of Alexander Reid" (1886) is certainly one of the museum's highlights as Reid was a well-known Glasgow art collector. Other artists displayed here include Bellini ("Madonna with Child", ca.
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Among the Scottish artists with work on display here are the portraitist Allan Ramsay, Alexander Nasmyth ("Rocky Landscape", 1817), Horatio McCulloch ("Glencoe", 1864), Robert Herdman ("Execution of Mary Stuart", 1867), the Glasgow Pre-Raphaelite Burne-Jones, Thomas Faed ("The Last of the Clans", 1865), the Aberdonian William Dyce, James Guthrie ("Old Willie", 1886), George Henry ("Landscape in Galloway", 1889), Edward A. Hornel ("The Fish Pond", 1894), John Q. Pringle ("Two Figures by the Fence", 1904), Leslie Hunter ("Old Mill in Fifeshire"), William McTaggart ("Paps of Jura", 1902), Peploe and Cadell ("Interior", 1928-probably the lounge in Cadell's Georgian town house in Edinburgh), Stanley Spencer ("Port Glasgow", 1952), William Gillies from Edinburgh ("Still Life in Blue and Brown", 1952), Mackintosh (La Lagonne, 1924), William Gear ("Summer Garden", 1951) and Glasgow's Bruce McLean ("Acrylic and Chalk Collage", 1984).
Elsewhere in the museum are sculptures, Egyptian mummies and Scottish archaeological finds, including Bronze Age tools and jewelry from Arran, Kintyre and Glenluce.
Address:
Kelvingrove Museum & Art Gallery, Argyle Street
Kelvingrove, Glasgow G3 8AG, Scotland
Kelvingrove, Glasgow G3 8AG, Scotland
Hours:
10am-5pm; Sun: 11am-5pm; Fri: 11am-5pm
Tips: This attraction requires more than one visit to properly appreciate the art work.
Parking: Free
Typical Visit: 5 hours
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