Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, holds the national collection of modern art. When opened in 1960, the collection was held in Inverleith House, at the Royal Botanic Gardens. In 1980 it moved to its current home: a Neo Classical building in the west of Edinburgh, near the Water of Leith, built in 1825-1828 by William Burn for John Watson's Hospital, a school now incorporated in George Watson's College.

The Sculpture garden to the front of the building contains work by Henry Moore, Rachel Whiteread, Tony Cragg and Barbara Hepworth. In 2002 the front lawn was converted into the giant "Landform" sculpture by Charles Jencks, in collaboration with Terry Farrell. The sculpture is said to be inspired by chaos theory or Seurat's La Grand Jatte. In 2004 the gallery won the £100,000 Gulbenkian Prize for the Landform.

In 2005 with the help of the "Art Fund", the gallery added a significant selection of 20 monoprint drawings by leading British artist Tracey Emin to their collection, called the "Family Suite" (1994) displaying the "archetypal themes in Emin's art: sex, her family, her abortions, and Margate" [ [http://www.artfund.org/artwork/9639/family-suite The Art Fund - Family Suite ] ] . These works will be displayed from August 2008 at the gallery as part of a major solo show by Emin which has been called the "Summer Blockbuster" exhibition. [ [http://www.nationalgalleries.org/supportus/page/3:205 National Galleries of Scotland - Supportus ] ]

The collection includes work by Picasso, Braque, Mondrian, Ben Nicholson, Matisse, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, The Scottish Colourists, Peter Howson, Levannah Harris, Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Boyle Family The Scottish Colourists and Douglas Gordon. Due to space constraints, the work that is displayed is often rotated. The gallery also holds temporary exhibitions. Surrealist and Dada art, as well as work by Eduardo Paolozzi are kept at the adjacent Dean Gallery.

A selection of works from the gallery is available to view online.

ee also

National Galleries of Scotland

References

External links

* [http://www.nationalgalleries.org Museum website]
* [http://www.edinburgharchitecture.co.uk/landform_charles_jencks.htm Charles Jencks' Landform]
*http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collections/


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