Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum
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Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum
Opened in 1885 and designed by local architect Alexander Marshall McKenzie, the popular Aberdeen Art Gallery has impressive collections of modern art, as well as work by the Impressionists and the Scottish Colourists. In addition there are displays of contemporary craftwork, Aberdeen silver and examples of the decorative arts, as well as an ongoing series of temporary exhibitions.
In addition to 18th-century portraits by Raeburn, Hogarth, Ramsay and Reynolds and powerful 20th-century works by Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson and Francis Bacon, the gallery also has paintings by Monet, Pissaro, Sisley, Toulouse-Lautrec and Bonnard, while representatives of the Glasgow Boys include Sir John Lavery’s The Tennis Party and Sir James Guthrie’s To Pastures New.
It also supports new and emerging artists in its enterprising programme of special exhibitions throughout the year, with new acquisitions occasionally displayed in the imposing Centre Court, with its rose and grey granite columns.
The gallery is one of four operated by Aberdeen City Council, the others being the Aberdeen Maritime Museum, overlooking the harbour, Provost Skene’s House (a 16th-century town house with a 17th-century suite of rooms inside) and the Tolbooth (one of the best preserved 17th-century Scottish gaols).
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum
Schoolhill,
Aberdeen AB10 1FQ
tel: 01224 523700
www.aagm.co.uk
