Edinburgh, Scotland - Dundee’s McManus Galleries and Museum closed in October 2005 for a major re-development and is due to re-open in Spring 2008.  To celebrate the rich diversity of the City’s holdings, a selection of the finest works in its twentieth-century Scottish art collection will be shown at the Dean Gallery, Edinburgh and at the Fleming Collection, London, during the Autumn and Winter of 2006-7. On exhibit 25 January - 5 April 2007.  The exhibition will consist of some sixty modern Scottish masterpieces from the period 1910-1980, by forty-six artists, which are rarely shown outside Dundee.  Many of the leading artists of the period will be featured including Edward Baird, John Bellany, the Scottish Colourists, Stanley Cursiter, John Duncan, Will Maclean, Alberto Morrocco and James McIntosh Patrick.

Consider the Lilies is the title of a painting by Peter Collins in the exhibition, while a pot of three lilies is Dundee’s coat of arms, symbolizing the Virgin Mary, the city’s patron saint.  The exhibition provides an exciting opportunity to see the best of Dundee’s modern art in the Scottish and English capitals.

In Edinburgh, Consider the Lilies will be accompanied by a display, held in the Gabrielle Keiller Display Library in the Dean Gallery, of material from the James McIntosh Patrick Archives of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and McManus Galleries and Museum.  Arguably Scotland’s foremost landscape painter of the twentieth-century, McIntosh Patrick is one of Dundee’s most celebrated citizens.  The display will include sketchbooks, photographs, letters and working tools such as the artist’s traveling easel, paints and paintbrushes.

McManus Galleries and Museum is housed in a grand Victorian gothic revival building in Albert Square, in the heart of Dundee.  It has been one of the City’s landmarks since its foundation as the Albert Institute in 1867.  It was re-named after Lord Provost Maurice McManus O. B. E, who championed a programme of works to save the building in the 1980s.  The current £8 million redevelopment project, entitled ‘Who We Are’, will create a state-of-the-art cultural attraction of international standing.

• DEAN GALLERY, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.
  

The Dean Gallery houses an extensive collection of Dada and Surrealism. It also displays work by sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi who offered a large amount of his work to the gallery1994.  The gallery library and archive of artists’ books, catalogues and manuscripts relate to Dada, Surrealism and other 20^th century art.

• THE FLEMING COLLECTION, 13 Berkeley Street, London W1.
  

The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation was established in April 2000, receiving a generous endowment from the Fleming family.  This enabled the Foundation to acquire The Fleming Collection from Robert Fleming & Co.  Limited prior to the sale of the bank the same year.  Started in 1968, The Fleming Collection is widely regarded as the finest collection of Scottish art in private hands, comprising paintings from 1770 to the present day.  Regular exhibitions drawn from the Collection as well as loans from public and private collections of Scottish art can be viewed in the specially designed gallery, named The Fleming Collection, which opened to the public in January 2002.

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