Frances Fowle, Curator of French art at the National Galleries of Scotland, introduces our display of Impressionism and Post Impressionism at the National. Frances gives you an insight into some of the Impressionist and Post Impressionist collection highlights including artworks by Camille Pissaro, Berthe Morisot, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and Georges Seurat.

Deputy Director and Chief Curator Tricia Allerston introduces our display of nineteenth-century Scottish paintings at the National. This tour gives you an insight into some of the highlights of this part of the collection, including work by artists such as William McTaggart, Phoebe Anna Traquair, Arthur Melville and James Paterson. The nineteenth century was a hugely important century in the development of Scottish art. Here, Tricia describes how artists moved from a tradition of painting in the studio towards the greater freedom of painting outdoors.

Patrick Elliott, Curator at the National Galleries of Scotland, introduces our display Beyond Realism | Dada and Surrealism at the Modern. This tour gives you an insight into some of the Dada and Surrealist collection highlights. Artworks introduced by Patrick include those by Man Ray, Joan Miró Salvador Dalí, René Magritte and Leonora Carrington.

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Cubist art emerged in Paris around 1907. The two main 'inventors' of Cubism were the French painter Georges Braque (1882–1963) and the Spaniard Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). The term 'Cubism' originated in a derogatory remark made by an art critic in 1908: he said that Braque reduced everything 'to geometric outlines, to cubes'. The term 'Cubism' soon came into widespread use, although in fact Cubist paintings rarely feature cubes.

Lucinda Lax, Curator of Portraiture (1700-1800) gives us a tour of the Jacobite display at the Portrait, home to the most extensive and significant collection of Jacobite visual material in the world.

Liz Louis, Curator of Portraiture introduces the Great Hall of the Portrait. Liz gives us a tour of the elaborate decorative interior and examines the glittering frieze and mural decorations by William Brassey Hole. The Great Hall is a work of art in itself, and Liz explains how the decorative scheme relates to both the outside of the building, and the contents that it was purpose built to house.

Kerry Watson is the Librarian at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and is responsible looking after the collections of books and archive material housed in Modern Two. Books by artists make up part of that collection, and here Kerry shows us some highlights, including Henri Matisse’s (1869-1954) colourful Jazz (published 1947), and Tauba Auerbach’s sculptural ‘pop-up’ creation [2,3] of 2011.

Hannah Brocklehurst, Curator of Prints and Drawings gives us a look at some of the highlights of the Print collection. The National Galleries of Scotland is home to an outstanding collection of Prints and Drawings from the Renaissance to the present day. Works on paper are sensitive to the effects of light, and therefore they cannot be put on prolonged display. The collection is housed in our Prints and Drawings stores at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern Two).

The National Galleries of Scotland are home to an outstanding collection of Prints and Drawings from the Renaissance to the present day. The collection is housed in our Prints and Drawings stores at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern Two). Here, Curators of Prints and Drawings Hannah Brocklehurst and Charlotte Topsfield show us some of the highlights of the collection.