Exhibitions

An Irish Impressionist: Lavery on Location

Lavery was primarily a painter of society portraits and contemporary scenes. He studied in Glasgow, in London, and then in the early 1880s in Paris. Between 1885 and 1896 he lived mainly in Glasgow, befriending the artists known as the Glasgow Boys sharing an interest in their subjects of modern life. He is sometimes referred to as the ‘Belfast-born Glasgow Boy'. Lavery’s later career was spent between London and Morocco, where he acquired a villa, surrounded by beautiful gardens. He travelled a great deal, always with his easel, and recorded everything – from daylight raids on London during the First World War to tennis parties in the South of France.

The Fleming Collection's "The Blue Hungarians" is on display in the exhibition.

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The Nicholson Women

he Nicholson Women exhibition brings together the work of nine female artists from the exceptionally talented Nicholson family, varying in their techniques from painters and illustrators to designers and printmakers. With works spanning from the late 1800’s to the present day the show reflects on the historical significance of the female artists in the family who have helped define the movements and styles that they explored. 

Often overlooked until the recent attention given to redress the balance for female artists in British art history, the exhibition explores the work of Mabel Pryde Nicholson (1871-1918), Edith Nicholson (1890-1958), Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981), Nancy Nicholson (1899-1977), EQ Nicholson (1908-1992), Kate Nicholson (1929-2019), Rachel Nicholson (b. 1934) as well as the future generation of Nicholson women Rafaele Appleby and Ophelia Appleby. 

Surveying the stories of the artist’s lives, work and cultural impact - through wars, social crises and political as well as artistic movements - we discover artists who were often ahead of their time, and each of whom held their own unique style. 

The Fleming Collection's Mabel PRyde "The Artist's Daugther, Nancy, As a Harlequin", c. 1910  is on display until the week of May 20th

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A Scottish Colourist at 150: John Duncan Fergusson

Born in 1874 in Leith, near Edinburgh, Fergusson is one of the four artists, along with fellow Colourists F. C. B. Cadell, G. L. Hunter and S. J. Peploe, who are revered as the masters of modern Scottish art. Fergusson has the most international reputation of the group, not least due to key periods spent living in Paris before World War One and during the 1930s. As the longest-lived of the Colourists, Fergusson also played an important role in the Scottish art world after World War Two, from a base in Glasgow.

The works on display follow Fergusson’s emergence as an artist of sophistication in Edwardian Edinburgh, to his role in the development of modern art in Paris, to the inspiration he found in the Scottish Highlands and the joy of portraying the pupils of the Summer Schools held in France by his wife, the dance pioneer Margaret Morris (1891-1980). A selection of sculptures reveal his lesser-known talents as the only sculptor amongst the Colourists, led by the celebrated Eástre (Hymn to the Sun) of 1924 (illustrated left). All the works have been lent from private collections and from our exhibition partners, the Fleming Collection.  

An exhibition organised by Lyon & Turnbull Fine Art Auctioneers in partnership with The Fleming Collection.

LONDON

19 February - 01 March  
Mondays to Saturdays, 10:00 - 16.00

22 Connaught Street,   
London   
W2 2AF 

0207 930 9115  
london@lyonandturnbull.com

GLASGOW

11 March - 22 March  
Mondays to Saturdays, 10:00 - 16.00   
(by appointment)

182 Bath Street   
Glasgow   
G2 4HG 

To book your appointment please contact us as below:

0141 333 1992  
glasgow@lyonandturnbull.com

Illustrated left:   
John Duncan Fergusson (1874-1961)  
Eástre (Hymn to the Sun), 1924 (cast 1991)  
Bronze, 42cm high  
Private Collection  
Courtesy of Culture Perth & Kinross Museums & Galleries 

visit at: www.culturepk.org.uk

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Strange Horizons – Millie Frood

Millie Frood is a name rarely mentioned when we talk about Scottish master painters. Nevertheless, her style and passion for painting should earn her a place among the greats. This exhibition brings together a collection of her work as well as oral history and objects from her life as an artist in Motherwell and beyond.

The Fleming Collection's "Workers In a Field, 1900" is on display in the exhibition. 

Exhibitions

Scottish Women Artists - 250 Years of Challenging Perception

This important exhibition Scottish Women Artists - 250 Years of Challenging Perception celebrates the work of women artists who have challenged and shaped the contemporary art scene in Scotland. In an era when women lead Scotland’s government, galleries and art schools, it is easy to forget the prejudices and barriers their predecessors have faced.

Embracing key artistic movements and developments, the exhibition is organised with The Fleming Collection, one of the finest private collections of Scottish art in the world. It features significant ‘firsts’: Catherine Read (1723–78), who was the first formally trained Scottish woman artist in the 18th century; The Glasgow Girls, the first generation of Scottish women to be formally and professionally trained in the arts and Dame Elizabeth Blackadder (1931 –2021), the first woman elected to both the Royal Academy and the Royal Scottish Academy.  

20th century highlights include the radical post-war artist Joan Eardley (1921–63); Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912–2004); and Anne Redpath (1895–1965).  These outstanding painters are widely recognised today. Yet, the story of Scottish art is incomplete without the innovative and experimental art of women working in design, illustration, applied and decorative arts. Dovecot’s ground-breaking artworks with 21st century artists Christine Borland (b.1965), Victoria Crowe (b. 1945), Rachel Maclean (b.1987), Alison Watt (b.1965) and Alberta Whittle (b.1980) are the subject of a specially commissioned film. The exhibition also features a new Dovecot tapestry with award-winning Glasgow-based artist Sekai Machache (b.1989) on display for the first time.

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Scottish Colourists from the Fleming Collection

The Colourist paintings have been at the heart of the Fleming Collection since its inception. Thanks to the depth and range of the collection, the Colourists’ careers are charted from their early experimentalism under the sway of Whistler and Manet to the breakthrough moment of their exposure to the Fauves – the ‘wild beasts’ of contemporary French art - in Paris in 1905 to the mature works of the 1920s which saw a prodigious stream of Colourist painting fusing a Scots sensibility with a Continental palette.

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Anne Redpath and Her Circle

In this new exhibition in partnership with Berwick Visual Arts, works by Anne Repath, one of Scotland's finest mid-20th century artists, will hang alongside fellow 'Edinburgh School' artists to revive the achievements of the now largely forgotten group.

Exhibitions

The Glasgow Girls and Boys

The Glasgow Girls and Boys were a group of radical young artists, who rebelled against the jaded Victorian passion for highland scenes and story-telling pictures. With thanks to additional loans from private lenders, this display of the pivotal, late 19th century group of artists will highlight their talent and breadth of work.

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This Fragile Earth

This breakthrough exhibition by the Fleming Collection of Scottish art, staged in the sublime Coventry Cathedral, focusses on a group of veteran artists who were ahead of their time in responding to the threat of climate change. Until now, these artists, although well known to one another, have never been perceived as a group with common artistic goals. Only when reviewing their distinctive individual careers does a common thread appear, which is their shared response to the beauty and fragility of the planet, often expressed as early as the 1970s and 1980s. For some this response was triggered by finding artistic inspiration in the High Arctic; for others it was in response to the threats to Scotland’s own ecology and the destruction of traditional working communities that that has entailed. The resulting work, often on a monumental scale, provides both a precious record of icescapes now irretrievably lost, as well as symbolic and figurative expressions of anger at the urgency of their cause.

Exhibitions

The Glasgow Girls and Boys

The Glasgow Girls and Boys were a group of radical young artists, who rebelled against the jaded Victorian passion for highland scenes and story-telling pictures. With thanks to additional loans from private lenders and the Ferens Art Gallery, this display of the pivotal, late 19th century group of artists will highlight their talent and breadth of work.