Kelvingrove Museum & Art Gallery

Love this place!  Like the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, I can’t go to either city without allotting time for these brilliant museums.

To my great and pleasant surprise there was a wee jam going on outside the Museum.

So I leaned back out of the way to watch, listen & enjoy

 

When you enter the front door there is a large concert hall with plenty to see in the corners like Thistle Man Clyde, the mascot of the 2014 Commonwealth Games which were a huge success.

And an aging Elvis

This bit of modern art has been up for a few years and I hope it stays for a few more

I think I got all three heads

That’s me when I hear some one say something stupid.

The middle one is my favorite.  I laugh with him every visit.

The frame of John Lavery’s very large “Queen Victoria’s visit to the Glasgow Exhibition 1888” was completely destroyed in a WWII bombing but the painting was only slightly damaged.  I wonder who grabbed and saved the hot art.

 

I can’t recall where in the museum this bishop, Mungo I think,  resides

George Henry – A Galloway Landscape 1889

1899 E A Hornel – The Swans

2004 Memorial to Marriage Patricia Cronin

In 1910 Lavery gives us Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova

Alexander Mann, one of the famous Glasgow Boys, in 1905 – Chaff

And possible the most famous of The Boys, James Guthrie – A funeral in the Highlands 1881-2

Old Willie – The Village Worthy 1886

Mann – By  the Finehorn 1886 It was his use of light that attracts

Wm. Kennedy – Mid day Rest 1892

Gerard de Lairesse – The five Senses 1688

Charles Pierre van der Stappen – William the Silent 1890

The Royal Society of British Sculptors awarded William McMillan with best sculpture of the year in 1925.  The face!

Melody – Kellock Brown 1854

The Burrell collection at Pollock House currently is closed as it turns out it does rain in some museums.  I was fortunate enough to see the Collection just a few weeks before it was put in storage or, as in this case of the tapestries, shared whilst the seriously leaky roof is repaired.

This tapestry from 1350 is the Armorial Tapestry of Beaumont, Turenne & Comminges

The Bishop of Merseburg is from 1525

Robert Gibbs’ The Alma is huge

Grayson Perry won the Turner Prize in 2003 with these ‘pots’. I saw prize winning example of his work in the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge.

1903 Robert Colton – Th Springtide of Life

 

And try not to let your heartstrings get pulled too much over George Lawson’s – Motherless

I don’t believe David Stevenson was related to R L Stevenson, show here. His most famous work is the statue of William Wallace on his Monument

Mary Buchanan’s The Threshold 1923

Glyn Philpot – Melampus  the Centaur 1919

William Marshall 1841 Paul & Virginia

Henry Clarke – The Coronation of the Blessed Virgin – 1923

And if you have a museum you need an Irish Elk

And a leaping raptor

Kakapos are the only parrot that can not fly. Nor can a kiwi

Wm Dick – FDR

 

And then I found the Charles Rennie Macintosh exhibit !!  I love this guy’s stuff. As I waited to get in to see it I was approached, no accosted by a drunk.  In the museum!  He was sure I was Sir Billy Connelly. The joke was funny for a minute or two but after a discrete signal from a staff member security escorted the gentleman out.  I’ll not describe CRM’s work as you either get it or you don’t

Not only a designer, CRM was a very good artist as Grey Iris and his use of patterns and colors shows us

This is a coatrack & umbrella stand

Should I ever have a home again, I’d like a CRM style chair or two.  Designed, I imagine, so guest s won’t sit and stay too long as I’m sure the back is a bit stiff.

Concerts at the beginning and end of my visit.  So lucky to be here on a Sunday.  This happens every week