Museums, galleries and other cultural visits

Some of you may remember our Spring 2012 Social on the Glasgow Girls who, along with the Glasgow Boys, were a group of radical young artists, most of whom came from Glasgow or thereabouts, who rebelled against the jaded Victorian passion for highland scenes and story-telling pictures. They sprang to prominence in the 1880s as documentary painters of rural life in all its harsh reality.

Thank you to Jennifer for drawing our attention to the fact that, to coincide with International Museum Day (18th May) an online exhibition of the work of the Glasgow Boys and the Glasgow Girls has been launched, drawing from work in the Fleming Collection as well as public collections.  There is a non-virtual version of the exhibition planned for later in the summer, to be staged at the Granary Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed.

Follow this link for a view of the selected works artuk.org/discover/curations/the-glasgow-boys-and-girls/template/album

with one example given below