Modern Scottish Women

We walked quite a ways across Edinburgh today to get to one of the Scottish National Galleries of Modern Art - there are two.  We wanted to see the exhibit of Scottish Women Artists from 1885-1965.  It was a lovely walk, as we got ourselves off of the main streets and on to the smaller side streets and the museum was in a beautiful setting. Photos were not allowed, but here's what the catalog said about the show: "...concentrates on Scottish women painters and sculptors from 1885, when Fra Newbery became Director of the Glasgow School of Art, until 1965, the year of Anne Redpath’s death. It explores the experience and context of the artists and their place in Scottish art history, in terms of training, professional opportunities and personal links within the Scottish art world.

Celebrated painters including Joan Eardley, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh and Phoebe Anna Traquair are examined alongside lesser-known figures such as Phyllis Bone, Dorothy Johnstone and Norah Neilson Gray, in order to look afresh at the achievements of Scottish women artists of the modern period."

It was a wonderful exhibit and it was very inspiring.