Discover the effects of painting outdoors on European art 1825–1885, with early works by some of the Impressionists, including Pissarro and Monet as well as a few of the artists who inspired them.

In this comparatively simple portrait, Leibovitz relies on intimacy for effect. Her aim was to immortalise John and Yoko's deep love for one another. But within hours of taking this photograph John ...

Peploe is one of the group of four artists known as the 'Scottish Colourists'. Born in Edinburgh, he studied art in Paris and lived there from 1910 to 1912. It was through painting holidays in ...

The flamboyant performance artist Leigh Bowery (1961-1994) was a favourite model of Freud. He first saw Bowery perform at the Anthony d’Offay Gallery in London, when he appeared in a variety of ...

The Art Works is our project to deliver a sustainable new facility to care for, research and share Scotland’s renowned art collection. As a key part of the Granton Waterfront development, the building ...

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Adriaen de Vries was one of the greatest sculptors in bronze of his time, working across Europe and as court sculptor to Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. De Vries was born in The Hague and possibly ...

The son of a Kirkcaldy businessman, William Oliphant Hutchison studied at Edinburgh College of Art and in Paris. He was part of the group of young painters who exhibited as the Edinburgh Group ...

This enormous sculpture by Mueck measures just over five metres in length and captures a newly delivered baby in her first glimpse of the surrounding world. Mueck exploits scale to affect the viewer’s ...