Category: Our collections

Interesting items in, and stories from, our collections.

March 8, 2021 / archives / Art Collection

International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements…

January 29, 2021 / archives / Art Collection

Summing up Richard Robbins, after his death, one obituarist described him as ‘an artist who…

January 22, 2021 / archives / Art Collection

In our collections at the Pathfoot, the artwork of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham is sure to make…

January 15, 2021 / archives / Art Collection

Several artists in the University Art Collection would have been celebrating their 100th birthdays this…

December 10, 2020 / archives / Our collections

During lockdown we have developed a number of online volunteering projects to continue to provide…

November 30, 2020 / archives / News and events

2020 is the 250th anniversary of the birth of James Hogg (1770-1835), known as the…

October 2, 2020 / archives / Art Collection

Welcome to our regular blog slot, the ‘Friday Art Blog’. You can return to the…

September 11, 2020 / archives / Our collections

“Inevitably, official thoughts early turned to the time when Scotland would be granted the honour…

September 4, 2020 / archives / Art Collection

Born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, in 1915, Terry Frost KBE RA did not become an…

August 28, 2020 / archives / News and events

On the 50th anniversary of the 1970 Edinburgh Commonwealth Games newly catalogued collections trace the…