#Kelvingrove Art Gallery

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The beauty of Kelvingrove Art Gallery

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The Coming of Bride (1916-17). John Duncan.

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me taking a power nap

Kelvingrove Art Gallery Museum

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Glasgow celebrity cat considered Google Maps 'tourist attraction'

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Glasgow celebrity cat considered Google Maps 'tourist attraction'

When we think about tourist attractions around Glasgow the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and the Botanics immediately come to mind. However, Google has declared a certain feline named Freddy in the south side a must see for those planning to visit the city. The orange cat, who is fondly dubbed the mayor of Shawlands by locals, […]

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Aaaaaaand sure enough, every single time I say I have the fandom "meh's," there's a sighting or some news, hahaha. 👇

Woke up to one of the Team letting me know Sam was seen by a couple of fans at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow. And his mom was with him, so sweet. ❤️

I love how proud his mom is of him and that he takes the time to be with her often.

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Arming Sword from Germany dated to around 1150 on display at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, Scotland

This sword bears the inscriptions: '+ INMNII INP INN +' on one side, on the other, '+INI NNI NNB NN+'.

Photographs taken by myself 2023

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On June 23rd 1952 Salvador Dali’s painting “Christ of St John of the Cross” went on display in Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery.

There was a public outcry when Dr Tom Honeyman, the then director of Glasgow’s museums and art galleries, spent the city’s entire annual purchasing budget of £8,200, Dali had painted it the year before and the catalogue price was £12,000 so he got it on the cheap. It is one of the jewels of the city’s art collection, and indeed the whole of Scotland and has proven commercially remunerative, with displays and reproduction fees covering the original cost several times over. I looked around online to get an up to date value on it and the nearest date was 2009 when an estimated value of more than £60 million was quoted!!

I last visited the gallery in February thia year and sadly didn't see the peinting as it is on loan to a Rome art gallery, I see that the exhibition actually eneds today so it should be home in Glasgow before too long.

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Mrs. George Batten Singing (1897) by John Singer Sargent. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.

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1655, Rembrandt, Man in Armour

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Displayed in Kelvingrove Art Gallery - Memorial to Marriage, Patricia Cronin.

“Memorial to a Marriage is a double portrait of my partner - artist Deborah Kass - and me. A double life-size marble version of the work was installed on our burial plot in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York.

The statue addresses issues of lesbian invisibility, gay marriage, love and loss, power and status. In death I make official my "marriage", which was not legal for most of our relationship.

I wanted something that celebrated our life together. If all I would be officially allowed is death, I decided to make the most elegant and dignified statement I could about the end of our life together.

In summer 2011, the New York State Senate passed a bill allowing gay people to "marry". After 18 years together, we went to City Hall on the morning of 24 July for this service which was a step in the right direction. However, it still does not give us full equal rights with heterosexual marriage, which is recognised in all states under federal law.”

Honestly the detail in this sculpture is amazing! The time and care and love is extremely evident in this piece of art and the story behind it is truly beautiful and inspiring. I just had to share it here. ❤️

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Repairing the Bicycle (c. 1889). John Quinton Pringle.

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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum | Glasgow, UK

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The Druids: Bringing the Mistletoe by George Henry (1858–1943) and Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864–1933)

"Here we see the rite of bringing in the sacred mistletoe, and showing a group of Druids or Celtic priests in richly decorated ceremonial robes and insignia proceeding down a steep hillside in solemn procession. The mistletoe, cut from the sacred oak by a golden sickle held by the chief druid, is ceremoniously received by subordinates in white raiment and borne home reverently on the backs of the white bulls. Mistletoe is significant as a plant revered by the druids for its magical as well as medicinal properties. In the 1890s there was a revival of interest in Celtic art and folklore; the influence of this can be seen in the use of complex intertwining patterns on the priests' robes and also on the pattern work of the frame.

Henry and Hornel were members of a group of artists called the Glasgow Boys who, at the end of the 19th century, revolutionized Scottish painting. This painting, dating from 1890, was the first on which the two artists collaborated and is their most daring composition." - text from Glasgow Museums Resource Centre and ArtUK