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  • British Design

    British Design

    6 Dec 2016 - 5 Jan 2017 London Following on from the success of The John Scott Collection exhibition series, The Fine Art Society presented British Design, a celebration of British designers, manufacturers and styles from the late-nineteenth century through the twentieth century. The exhibition included furniture, textile, glass, metal and ceramic design by: A.W. Pugin, John Hardman,... Read more
  • John Copley An Observer

    John Copley

    An Observer 6 - 23 Dec 2016 London The prolific printmaker John Copley (1875-1950), already established as a lithographer, turned to etching in 1917. For the last 20 years of his life it was his preferred medium. Copley, at a time when etching had become unfashionable, enjoyed the lack of constraints and freedom of utterance etching permitted, as... Read more
  • Oscar Marzaroli Tenements to Towerblocks

    Oscar Marzaroli

    Tenements to Towerblocks 18 Nov - 23 Dec 2016 Edinburgh Marzaroli’s subject matter focuses on the urban decay and regeneration of Glasgow in the 1960s: the men of shipyards and steelworks, street life and children. Described as a documentary photographer, Marzaroli engaged and moved amongst his subjects as an equal, a participant. The photographs record the radical changes that took... Read more
  • John Byrne Moonshine

    John Byrne

    Moonshine 18 Nov - 23 Dec 2016 Edinburgh Painted in 2016, the works in this exhibition marked a transitional moment in John Byrne's evolving creativity. Still capturing glimpses of familiar faces: the Teddy boy and the blonde from 1950s Paisley, the cityscape with graffiti and smoky towers, the black guy with a fedora, the self-examining artist. However, these... Read more
  • Silvy Weatherall Another Man's Treasure

    Silvy Weatherall

    Another Man's Treasure 30 Sep - 12 Nov 2016 Edinburgh Another Man's Treasure, was a wunderkammern of works by Galloway-based artist Silvy Weatherall: paintings, sculptures, disarticulated animal and bird skeletons and their remnants. Silvy finds use for objects that have lost their function or have been discarded: 'the thought of making something out of 'nothing' appeals to me hugely.” Silvy... Read more
  • Alexander Nasmyth His Family and Influence

    Alexander Nasmyth

    His Family and Influence 30 Sep - 12 Nov 2016 Edinburgh 'The founder of the landscape painting of Scotland, by his taste and talents took the lead for many years in the patriotic aim of enriching his native land with the representations of her romantic scenery.' - Sir David Wilkie, describing Alexander Nasmyth in a letter of condolence to his widow.... Read more
  • Gerald Laing 1936-2011 A Retrospective

    Gerald Laing 1936-2011

    A Retrospective 19 Sep - 13 Oct 2016 London Gerald Laing 1936-2011 present the first major retrospective, featuring paintings, sculptures and prints spanning the entire career of the British pop artist and sculptor Gerald Laing (1936 - 2011), on the fifth anniversary of his death. . Considered one of the most important artists of his generation, Gerald Laing is... Read more
  • Signatures Of Scottish Art 140 Years of the Fine Art Society

    Signatures Of Scottish Art

    140 Years of the Fine Art Society 10 Jun - 9 Jul 2016 Edinburgh Exhibited during the year that The Fine Art Society celebrated its 140th anniversary, the occasion was marked in our Edinburgh gallery with the exhibition Signatures of Scottish Art. The show included 14 important Scottish paintings from the 17th century to the early 1900s. Works by: Henry Ferguson, David Allan, Allan... Read more
  • Samuel Palmer and The Fine Art Society

    Samuel Palmer and The Fine Art Society

    6 Jun - 7 Jul 2016 London Samual Palmer died in 1881 and the gallery staged his memorial exhibition, a major retrospective which was of great importance in establishing his lasting reputation. It was also the pattern for many subsequent shows in the gallery, which is credited with the virtual invention of the one-man-show. Whistler was celebrated... Read more
  • Laura Knight From a Private Collection

    Laura Knight

    From a Private Collection 6 - 26 May 2016 London This exhibition included a collection of 28 etchings and aquatints by acclaimed British artist, Laura Knight, which had been held in private hands since being purchased in the 1970’s. Created between 1922 and 1936, the works vividly depicted the intimate and private world of women, and the life of the... Read more
  • Counterpoint: Modern Realism 1910-1950

    Counterpoint: Modern Realism 1910-1950

    6 - 26 May 2016 London The story of modern art in Britain was often presented traditionally as a narrative journey towards abstraction or gestural expression, exemplified by the work of Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, or the St Ives painters. But alongside this brilliant burning path ran many other contrapuntal threads, each of... Read more
  • James McNeill Whistler Prints

    James McNeill Whistler

    Prints 5 - 28 Apr 2016 London In 2016 The Fine Art Society staged the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of prints by James McNeill Whistler for 45 years at its New Bond Street gallery. Part of the The Fine Art Societys 140th anniversary celebration, this show featured one of the first and most illustrious artists represented... Read more
  • The Print Show Artist Printmakers 1800-1975

    The Print Show

    Artist Printmakers 1800-1975 15 Feb - 10 Mar 2016 London From William Blake's engraving of Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims in 1809-10 to Howard Hodgkin's abstract hand-coloured lithographs of the 1970s, the exhibition will spanned 175 years of artist printmakers production and include 128 works by 49 artists, including Sybil Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Robert Austin, Stanley Roy Badmin, Edward Bawden, Robert Bevan,... Read more

  

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