Gerald Laing

20 Sep - 26 Oct 2013 Set to coincide with the Scottish Parliament’s show of Andy Warhol, The Fine Art Society exhibited a sculpture of the artist by fellow pop artist Gerald Laing, accompanied by screenprints from his 1968 ‘Baby, Baby, Wild Thing’ as well as ‘Lincoln Convertible’. The latter, inspired by images from the Zapruder... Read more

A Family Collection From Boxted House

Robert Bevan and other Modern British art from the collection of Bobby and Natalie Bevan 18 Sep - 3 Oct 2013 All of the works in this exhibition were all part of the collection at Boxted House in Essex, which was the home of Bobby and Natalie Bevan from 1946 until 2001. Bobby was the son of the Camden Town painter Robert Polhill Bevan (1865–1925), and inherited a significant group of... Read more

Arthur Melville

7 Sep - 18 Oct 2013 Although Arthur Melville was a ‘tremendously vital’ Scot, it took an English, London-based art critic to remind us of Melville’s genius. Reviewing the Glasgow boys exhibition at the Royal Academy in 2010 in the Evening Standard, Brian Sewell wrote about the richness of Melville’s work which he found ‘quite astonishing’.... Read more

John McLean

Another Light: Prairie Journey 6 - 26 Sep 2013 In 1981 I was thrilled to be asked as guest artist to the Emma Lake workshop in Saskatchewan. The place had become legendary. Artists preceding me included John Cage, Barnett Newman and Anthony Caro, whose Emma series was begun there. It was my first visit to Canada. I knew little... Read more

Scottishness in Art

1750-1980 5 Jul - 7 Sep 2013 The eighteenth century saw Scotland take a giant step forward. It opened trade with English colonies and saw Scotland rise culturally, socially and economically. It was against this backdrop that Allan Ramsay (1713-1784) rose as a painter to the highest levels of European success. Ramsay set up a phenomenally successful... Read more

James Cowie RSA

1886-1956 19 Apr - 18 May 2013 James Cowie was an outsider. He stood apart from the dominant mood of the pre and post war years and dismissed the colourful, expressive style that his contemporaries embraced. Instead, he pursued the intellectual and classical. He founded his work on meticulous preparatory drawing from which emerged complex compositions laden... Read more

Whistler On The Thames

An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithotints 17 Apr - 9 May 2013 The idea for this exhibition grew from the extraordinary etchings Whistler made in the late summer of 1859. The idea of the exhibition arose from him arriving in London, charged with Realist zeal inhaled in Paris, and taking lodgings in a rough, working class district of London. In Wapping he... Read more

Scottish Pictures of the Twentieth Century

15 Feb - 16 Mar 2013 With work by E A Hornel, Sir D Y Cameron, S J Peploe, Anne Redpath, Sir William Gillies, A R Sturrock, William Wilson, Sir W O Hutchison, Alberto Morrocco, Robert Henderson Blyth, Joan Eardley, Elizabeth Blackadder, John Byrne and John Boyd. Read more

British Murals and Decorative Paintings 1910-1970

14 Feb - 9 Mar 2013 As a consequence of remaining out of the public domain murals often end up being written out of the accounts of the lives of the artists who created them - not withstanding the fact that for sheer size and scale it might be assumed that they were amongst the most... Read more