Glasgow Art Galleries and Museums
Other names: The Glasgow Corporation Galleries of Art, The Burrell Collection, The Gallery of Modern Art, Peoples Palace, Pollok House, St Mungo Museum, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Foundation date: 1854
Function: Art gallery and museum
Policy: A free civic art institution, spread across a range of venues in Glasgow that house and store art collections and museum resources. Aims to use the display of cultural and historical objects of significance to educate the public.
History or description: The Corporation Galleries of Art were originally at 270 Sauchiehall Street for c.50 years, and closed in 1902. The contents were then transferred to its current location - Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum at Kelvingrove.
Activities: exhibitions (open to non-members)
Publications: books, illustrated guide, reports
Funding types: public funding
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
New entries have been made each time a work was exhibited due to a lack of evidence about the state, medium or edition shown.
Lent Cat
1944
Lent Springtime of life
1915
Lent Thomas Carlyle
1893
(Corporation of Glasgow)
Lent Fortuna
1892
Lent Case of medals
1892
Lent Victor Hugo
1892
Lent Aeneas and Dido
1892
Lent The Elf
1915
Lent Head of an infant, 1885
1916
Lent Her Majesty Queen Alexandra, when Princess of Wales
1916
Lent James Smart , Chief of Police
1916
Lent A child
1916
Lent Grief
1916
Lent The woman thou gavest me
1917
Lent Grief
1926
Lent Danseuse
1944
Lent Sir James George Frazer, FRS
1947
Loaned A Greek dancer
1914
Placed in custody of the 'Corporation' at Kelvingrove Galleries.
Sources
Glasgow Art Galleries and Museum, The building and the Collections
1987
pp. 4 - 9
Citing this record
'Glasgow Art Galleries and Museums', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/organization.php?id=msib6_1204720271, accessed 23 Sep 2023]
