Modern and Contemporary Scottish Painting 1945-2000
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of paintings by Scottish artists which date from between 1945 and 2000. This includes works by key figures in Scottish painting including notable members of the Royal Scottish Academy - Anne Redpath, Elizabeth Blackadder, Joyce Cairns, Jack Knox, John Maxwell and Joan Eardley. Later work in the collection represents a period of Scottish art which witnessed a significant return to figurative painting and the beginnings of conceptual art. John Bellany, in particular, was instrumental in renewing this interest in figurative painting at a time when Modernism and Abstraction dominated. His allegorical works, often inspired by his upbringing in a religious north-east Scottish fishing village, have influenced the figurative painting of Scottish painters including Ken Currie, Peter Howson, Steven Campbell and Adrian Wiszniewski who are well represented in the collection. These works were part of the collection originally shown in the Gallery of Modern Art when it opened in 1996 alongside Alan Davie whose symbolic paintings are important examples of British Abstract Expressionist work. The collection also holds early works by Alison Watt, Stephen Conroy, Carole Gibbons and Alasdair Gray.
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