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Sydney Lee, 'The Sleeping Square' (detail), 1928. Aquatint, mezzotint and roulette. Private collection. © estate of the artist.
Sir Hugh Casson PRA, 'Elephant and Rhinoceros Pavilion, London Zoo'(detail), c.1971. © Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Sidney Nolan, 'Ned Kelly' (detail), 1946. Enamel paint on composition board. 90.8 x 121.5 cm. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Gift of Sunday Reed, 1977.
George Bellows, 'Stag at Sharkey’s' (detail), 1909. Oil on canvas, 92 x 112.6 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection. Photo © The Cleveland Museum of Art.
12 November 2010
In the Reynolds Room, a John Madejski Fine Room
Late nineteenth-century Glasgow, the 'Second City of the British Empire', was booming with industrial and creative energy. Architects, artists, and craftspersons either advanced existing traditions or made new art for the new century. Professor Tony Jones, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, puts the Glasgow Boys paintings into context, and introduces the artists and the personalities of the period, such as Miss Cranston and her 'Art Tea Rooms', and 'Fra' Newberry, who commissioned Charles Rennie Mackintosh to build the revolutionary Glasgow School of Art.
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