Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill (March 6- July 4) promises to bring together many of this colourful character’s “most remarkable objects”. Given Walpole’s interests and his fanciful Gothic creations (both architectural and literary) this should make for an interesting menagerie.
Impressionist Gardens will be packing them in at National Galleries Scotland this summer. Berthe Morisot, Child amongst the Hollyhocks, 1881. Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne. Photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln
Fin de siècle feel…
The highlight of the 2010 summer season at the National Gallery of Scotland complex in Edinburgh is another potential crowd puller. Impressionist Gardens (July 31 – October 17) features Impressionist big hitters Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Manet and Sisley with Cézanne and Bonnard thrown in for good measure.
There’s a similarly fin de siècle feel at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool where High Kicks and Low Life: Toulouse-Lautrec Prints (May 14 – August
revisits Lautrec’s very personal observations of the lives of prostitutes.
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