Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum Archives

Hidden Treasures

4th May 2011

Our man, The Chimney, has been out and about and has come across a couple of little treasures…. Those of […]

4th October 2010

Pabasa was the most powerful male official of his day in Upper Egypt. Pharoah Psamtek I appointed him as Great […]

27th September 2010

It is a popular myth that the Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum in Glasgow was built the wrong way round […]

11th August 2010

Gustave Doré was born in Strasbourg in January 1832 and was a child prodigy who was drawing from the age […]

21st July 2010

This painting has come to symbolise the Highland Clearances which was a time when many Scots were forced to emigrate, […]

14th July 2010

Sir William Quiller Orchardson was born in Edinburgh in 1835. He moved to London in 1862 and among his fellow […]

24th June 2010

Born in Manchester in 1887, Lawrence Stephen Lowry is one of Britain’s most celebrated artists. He studied painting and drawing […]

16th June 2010

In this wonderfully realistic depiction of three dimensional space the Angel Gabriel hurries to tell the Virgin Mary that she […]

2nd June 2010

A hugely prolific painter, draughtsman, sculptor and ceramicist, Pablo Picasso is regarded as the supreme artist of the 20th century […]