Prints & drawings curator @NatGalleriesSco All opinions my own
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined September 2016
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Honouring the life and work of Joan Hills, who passed away earlier this week. Our Chief Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Patrick Elliott, reflects on working with Joan and the Boyle Family on their 2003 exhibition at the Moderns.
Full blog here ➡
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Here's Gwen John's contented cat for #Caturday, both looks and look so perfectly rendered in watercolour. victorianweb.org/painting/mi…
ALT A tortoiseshell cat with a creamy white bib, sitting comfortably with its green eyes fixed on something. Quite alert but happily at ease!
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LIVE NOW: The National Galleries of Scotland reopens today in Edinburgh. This includes a fascinating work by the great William Bell Scott, on display for the first time in decades. Emily Learmont tells us about the 'King's Quair' Screen and about the Pre-Raphaelites in Scotland.
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The good people @BrookwoodCem in Surrey have restored the overgrown and dilapidated gravestone of Scotland’s greatest water colour artist, Arthur Melville. Huge thanks to them! Read more flemingcollection.com/scotti…
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Exciting news from @NatGalleriesSco today! 🌻🎉
Vincent Van Gogh: Hidden self-portrait discovered by X-ray bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-6…
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🌟GIVEAWAY TIME🌟In celebration of #IndieBookshopWeek we are giving you the chance to win a 3 month Porty by Post fiction subscription! To enter, just like and retweet this post and make sure you are following us! Ends 20/06/22📚
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Ok,here's my way to remember that I had a life before the #war. I was a #publisher, lecturer, #bookmarketing consultant. So I'll try to keep myself calm by creating a thread about #Ukrainian books, translated &published in UK/US.May be useful for #bookshops & #booklovers. Thread:
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One of the earliest images of a black woman in Scotland secured for national art collection
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📣 We have acquired one of the earliest known images of a black person by a Scottish artist.
The watercolour 'Edinburgh Milkmaid with Butter Churn' by David Allan (1744-1796) is both exceptionally rare and striking.
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We've got five proof copies of @radiomukhers' brilliant new Wyndham and Banerjee mystery novel to give away! 📚
RT to be in with a chance of winning #TheShadowsOfMen.
UK only. Competition closes Friday 3 September.
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Landscape by Albrecht Dürer, who was born #onthisday in 1471.
While most of his work consisted of oil paintings and woodcut engravings, Dürer also painted a number of watercolour landscapes in his travels to and from Italy, particularly in the Alps of southern Tyrol, Italy.
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'The Invisible', female workers of London series by contemporary artist Caroline Walker #womensart
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The weather forecast no one asked us for: it is quite windy today.
'Woman Standing on a Windy Street in Edinburgh' by Alexander Runciman (1784): bit.ly/3sVOhot 🌬️
ALT Red chalk on paper.
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Today's Dürer is his vision of Brussels' imperial zoo: lions after slumber, a blue baboon, a mountain goat, and a sphinx-like lynx, all dreaming of freedom and the wide open plains.
He also saw Aztec gold and the fathom-long bones of a whale; all stolen, and soon to be extinct.
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Happy #WorldBookDay - who’s read this Mary Anning biography from Tom Sharpe? What books have you read recently about, or inspired by, Lyme Regis and it’s many interesting people and places?
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Hi all, as some of you may have heard the Wallace Museum would like to close the library to the public & make 2 of us redundant. A petition has been created for us if you could please sign or share it that would be great!
change.org/p/ant%C3%B3nio-ho…