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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is a museum and art gallery in Glasgow, Scotland, managed by Glasgow Museums. The building is located in Kelvingrove Park in the West End of the city, adjacent to Argyle Street. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is one of Scotland's most popular museums and free visitor attractions. [2]
Kelvingrove Park was originally created as the West End Park in 1852, and was partly designed by Sir Joseph Paxton, Head Gardener at Chatsworth House, whose other works included The Crystal Palace in London, Glasgow Botanic Gardens, and the gardens at Lismore Castle in County Waterford; [1] however, the park was mostly designed by architect Charles Wilson and surveyor Thomas Kyle. [2]
The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum consists of three floors: [1] The Lower Ground Floor is the main public entrance to the gallery. It contains a small RBS Gallery and a café. The extended part of the lower ground floor is known as the Campbell Hunter Foundation Education Wing.
Christ of Saint John of the Cross is a painting by Salvador Dalí made in 1951 which is in the collection of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow.It depicts Jesus Christ on the cross in a darkened sky floating over a body of water complete with a boat and fishermen.
[3] [4] It marked the opening of the city's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and also commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the first world's fair held in the UK, doubling that attendance with 11.5 million visits. [1] Following the style popularised at the 1893 Chicago world's fair, the main exhibition building was in Renaissance-Baroque ...
Kelvingrove is a neighbourhood in the city of Glasgow, Scotland.It is situated north of the River Clyde in the West End of the city, and directly borders Kelvingrove Park to the north and the grounds of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum to the west.
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Motherless at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Motherless at the Homewood Cemetery in Pittsburgh. Motherless is an 1889 sculpture by George Anderson Lawson. It depicts a child in the arms of their seated father. It is in the collection of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow.