Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art is an art museum in Edinburgh.

Museum

The museum was opened in 1960 at Inverleith House of the Royal Royalene garden. 1980 the museum moved into today's neo-classical building. The building was built in 1825-1828 by William Burn for John Watson 's Hospital. Ahead of the museum building is a Skulputurengarten with works by Henry Moore, Rachel Whiteread, Tony Cragg and Barbara Hepworth. In the lawn in front of the museum in the work " Landform " by Charles Jencks is integrated. The museum works by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Piet Mondrian, Ben Nicholson, Henri Matisse, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, The Scottish Colourists, Peter Howson, Levannah Harris, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Boyle Family and Douglas Gordon will be issued.

Collection ( selection)

Henry Moore, Reclining Figure, 1951

Henry Moore, Reclining Figure, 1951

Alexander Calder 's L' empennage, 1953

Barbara Hepworth, Conversation with Magic Stones, 1973

Eduardo Paolozzi, Volcano, 1998-1999

Charles Jencks ' Landform, 2004

Landform, or Earthworks, or Ueda, won the Gulbenkian prize in May 2004

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