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Scotland's Art | In Focus

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Audio and Video Scottish Art
Murray MacKinnon (1943-2021)

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Tam Dean Burn | Mask Made

20 minute read

Audio and Video Scottish Art
Spooky Scotland Sketches: Halloween Costumes

5 minute read

Scottish Art
Flowers on an Indian Cloth
Dame Elizabeth Blackadder (1931-2021)

5 minute read

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In Conversation with Ken Currie

10 minute read

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Disappearing Glasgow

5 minute read

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Patricia Macdonald | Looking at sea-level rise

10 minute read

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'Joan Eardley: Land & Sea - A Life in Catterline' by Patrick Elliott

5 minute read

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10 things you probably didn't know about Joan Eardley

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Sabine
International Women's Week with Alison Watt

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Scotland Sketches: Baking with Flora Shedden

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Scotland Sketches: Autumnal Changes

10 minute read

Scottish Art
Talks & Lectures | Joan Eardley & Catterline panel discussion

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Joan Eardley podcast

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Conservation of the MacKinnon Collection

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Exploring environmental change in the Cairngorms with Patricia Macdonald

10 minute read

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A Jacobite Icon | Allan Ramsay’s Portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart

10 minute read

Scottish Art
A new Ken Currie painting and acquisitions going on display in the Modern Portrait

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Conservation of the MacKinnon Collection | daguerreotypes

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Blog Scottish Art
Patricia Macdonald | Considering melting ice

10 minute read

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Scotland's art | Styles and schools

5 minute read

Audio and Video Scottish Art
The Scottish National Gallery Project

5 minute read

Scottish Art Projects
Artist talk | Katie Paterson answers questions on Future Library 2014-2114

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Lockdown Concerts | Live Music Now

5 minute read

Scottish Art Learning
MacKinnon Collection | Cataloguing Dawn of Light and Liberty

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
The knowledge of care | Revisiting Iain Stewart's Tender series

15 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Film | Richard Demarco remembers Strategy: Get Arts fifty years on

10 minute read

Audio and Video Scottish Art
Stay at home, save lives

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Past event | Friday Night Mixer: Where are the Women?

15 minute read

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Alan Davie (1920-2014)

10 minute read

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Past event | Joan Eardley: A Private View

15 minute read

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Dr Elsie Maud Inglis | A Scottish Superhero

5 minute read

Audio and Video Scottish Art
‘Always on my mind'

10 minute read

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The MacKinnon Collection | Can you help identify these images?

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In the Mind’s Eye

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A tribute to a Galleries volunteer

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Richard Demarco | 90th birthday interview

5 minute read

Audio and Video Scottish Art
The Reconciliation of Oberon and Titania: A Creative Response

10 minute read

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Stay home this weekend | The Great Outdoors from the Small Indoors

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Talk | Liz Louis - The life and work of James Tassie

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A delicate White Drake by a Glasgow Boy

5 minute read

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From our archive | Scottie Wilson's flat cap and fountain pens

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From our archive | The Alan Davie Trio

5 minute read

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Scottish National Gallery Project - Announcement

5 minute read

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Doddie Weir | Portrait of Scotland rugby icon on display

10 minute read

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The MacKinnon Collection | Scottish sport between 1840 and 1940

10 minute read

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The MacKinnon Collection | Scotland at work from 1840 to 1940

10 minute read

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Painting Robert Burns | Alexander Nasmyth and Scotland's national bard

10 minute read

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Introducing Henry, Prince of Wales - one portrait or two?

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The MacKinnon Collection | Love is all around

10 minute read

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Photographing the Forth Bridge

10 minute read

Scottish Art
Meet the Team: Tricia Allerston

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Then and Now: Images from Scotland’s Photograph Album

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Reflections: Art, Life and Love | The Artist and Travel

5 minute read

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Ten things you might not know about the Scottish National Gallery

5 minute read

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Scottish National Portrait Gallery gets special visit from NHS Tayside Photo Competition prize-winners

5 minute read

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The MacKinnon Collection | Edinburgh exhibitions reviewed by The Scotsman

10 minute read

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A Brief History of Eerie, Ghostly and Unsettling Photography

10 minute read

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A life dedicated to art | Flora Macdonald Reid

10 minute read

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Art conservation | How are frames chosen?

10 minute read

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Curator’s Top Ten: Scottish landscapes

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An ornate link to one of Edinburgh's most popular tearooms

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Podcast series | The Making of a Portrait

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Discover James Watt at the National Galleries of Scotland

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Say it with flowers: the meaning of a rose

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15,000 photographs of Scotland | Introducing the MacKinnon Collection

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Eduardo Paolozzi and the art of screenprinting

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Queen Victoria's impact on art in Scotland

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Queen Victoria and photography

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Wad ever grac’d a dance of witches! – The Art of Tam O’Shanter

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Halloween | Terrifying tales from the National Galleries of Scotland

15 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Monarch of The Glen: The Creation of an Icon

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Artist Sandy Moffat reflects on 'Poets' Pub'

10 minute read

Scottish Art
Face to face with eight Scottish writers whose stories went global

10 minute read

Scottish Art
Caricature | Drawing Jocky Wilson

5 minute read

Scottish Art
Art conservation | Preparing Guthrie's 'Oban' and Paterson's 'Edinburgh from Craigleith' for display

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
An update on the project contractor for the Scottish National Gallery redevelopment

10 minute read

Scottish Art
Crafting an image | The photographic techniques of Alfred G. Buckham

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
The MacKinnon Collection | Historic collection of photographs returns home to Scotland

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Vast interiors

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Thomas Annan

15 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
A Portrait of the Artist

5 minute read

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(Untitled) Butcher Boys

5 minute read

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Hill & Adamson

15 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Contemporary Art in Scotland

15 minute read

Scottish Art Theme
The Photographers, the Kirkyard and the Poltergeist

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
The Story of Scottish Art: Joan Eardley

5 minute read

Scottish Art
Photographer David Eustace examines the work of his predecessors, Hill and Adamson

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Episodes From Scottish History

10 minute read

Scottish Art Theme
Joan Eardley | Ideas In The Mind

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
The Dark Mountains
Pictorialism in Scotland

5 minute read

Scottish Art Theme
The Italian Job: Bringing Scots in Italy to the Portrait Gallery

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Phoebe Anna Traquair

10 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Steven Campbell

15 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
All Roads Lead to Scotland | Paul Strand's 1950s Hebridean photographs

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
The Two Roberts

10 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Karla Black

15 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Jamie Murray, b.1986, and Andy Murray, b. 1987, Tennis Players
The Murray Brothers’ Surreal Encounter

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
J.D Fergusson

10 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Machrihanish Bay
William McTaggart

10 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Uilleam Mac an t-Sagairt

10 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
The Glasgow Boys

15 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Ealain Albannach aig Gailearaidhean Nàiseanta na h-Alba

5 minute read

Scottish Art
Joan Eardley

15 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Nathan Coley

15 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
F.C.B Cadell

10 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Arthur Melville

10 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
The Etching Printer - William Strang, 1859 - 1921
William Strang

15 minute read

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Portraiture in Scotland

10 minute read

Scottish Art Theme
Wandering Shadows
Scottish Art at the National Galleries of Scotland

5 minute read

Scottish Art Theme
Douglas Gordon

20 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
David Young Cameron

10 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Legend, Fantasy and Imagination

5 minute read

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Master Baby
Movements in Scottish Art

5 minute read

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Edinburgh from the West
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10 minute read

Scottish Art Theme
The Great Hall in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery

10 minute read

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