SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW

From: Thursday 17 July 2008  To: Sunday 21 September 2008

SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW:
DRAWINGS, PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS
RECENTLY ACQUIRED BY THE NATIONAL GALLERIES OF SCOTLAND
17 July - 21 September 2008
NATIONAL GALLERY COMPLEX, The Mound, Edinburgh
Admission free

This exhibition will present a rich and varied selection of the best works on paper and photographs acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland over recent years. The selection of approximately seventy works will span the period from the Renaissance to the present day, and will include a broad range of media and techniques. Among the highlights will be a vibrant sketch of the Holy Family by the eighteenth-century Venetian painter Tiepolo; an important early watercolour by nineteenth-century Scottish artist E A Walton; a contemporary pastel portrait of the actress Tilda Swinton by her husband John Byrne; spectacular aerial photographs taken by Alfred Buckham in the 1920s; a striking self-portrait by the celebrated American photographer Lee Miller; and Picasso's harrowing etching Weeping Woman.