Art in Glasgow

My dear Friends
After I left my cousin on the first day of my stay in Glasgow, I made my way to the University to visit the Hunterian Museum just off University Avenue. I have a lot of difficult memories of the University, where I spent my wild youth, but it was good to see the broad sweeping avenue and the beautiful quadrangles and the trees.

I had never been to this museum before, which is on campus, and it was very interesting. They had a visiting exhibition of Edvard Munch's paintings ( the most famous of which is the Scream); the lithographs, mainly in black and white are both brilliant and depressing at the same time, dealing with themes of human isolation and death. Even the ones on love are pretty depressing! But they were a great privilege to see.

Downstairs they had a variety of paintings, including a whole collection of the American artist Whistler and his portraits of young women in different costumes, quite colourful. And quite a few of his amazing landscapes. The artist's wife bequeathed the paintings to the Hunterian museum.

More next time!
Shalom from
Sister Gila