LIVERPOOL.- ‘Art and Insanity at the Walker Art Gallery’ was one newspaper’s description of the Walker Art Gallery’s 1892 purchase of the painting Summer (1891) by Edward Hornel. The uproar surrounding the acquisition was due to the…
Scots Who Shook Up Victorian Art on Show in London at the Royal Academy of Arts
LONDON (REUTERS).- A group of talented and ambitious young artists join forces, determined to stir up the art establishment which they see as sentimental, stodgy and distant from reality. A familiar story? Perhaps not. The artists in question are not …
Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880-1900 at the Royal Academy of Arts
LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts presents the first exhibition in London for over 40 years to celebrate the achievement of the Glasgow Boys, the loosely knit group of young painters who created a stir at home and abroad in the final decades of the ni…
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Sets a New Attendance Record
GLASGOW.- Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880-1900 at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum opened on 9 April 2010 and ran until 27 September 2010, attracting over 120,000 visitors as well as wide critical acclaim. The exhibition has set a new reco…