Scottish Women Artists Exhibition Edinburgh - Painters and Sculptors 1885-1965 -
Women artists in this exhibition will
include - Bessie Mac Nicol, Phoebe Anna Traquair, Gertrude Alice Meredith
Williams, Margaret Macdonald, Dorothy Johnstone and Hazel Amour,
Phyllis Mary Bone, Joan Eardley and Bet Low.
The exhibition will focus on painters and
sculptors and the period from 1885 to 1965. ,
(when Fra Newbery became Director of
Glasgow School of Art, and until 1965, the year of Anne Redpath’s death).
The eighty years which lay between these
events saw an unprecedented number of Scottish women train and practice as
artists. More than 90 works will be
shown, from the National Galleries of Scotland’s holdings and other public
collections from throughout the UK, as well as from private collections.
Early last century women were forbidden
from attending life drawing classes. They also had to give up any art careers
if they married.
The conditions that the artists negotiated as students and practitioners due to their gender will be explored, shedding new light on this vital chapter of Scottish modern art history, whilst uncovering and celebrating women’s contribution to it.
The exhibition will include familiar
masterpieces alongside important works by significant artists which are rarely
seen and who are not widely known.
The galleries believe there is scope for
more shows of female artists and the display is a precursor to a major re-think
and re-hang of the gallery.
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MY BLOG ON Women Artists - http://www.musicfootnotes.com/2014/10/woman-and-art.html
Modern Scottish Women will be accompanied by a book based on new research, as well as a free
permanent collection display of prints by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, selected
from a recent gift of her work by The Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Charitable Trust.
Exhibition supported by The Wilhelmina
Barns-Graham Charitable Trust and a sorority of women across Scotland
