ROYAL GLASGOW INSTITUTE OF THE FINE ARTS
Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts was founded in 1861 when on 29 May, a group of ten or so of Glasgow’s prominent citizens, including the artists John Graham[later Sir John Graham-Gilbert)] (1794–1866) and John Mossman (1817–1890) met in the Queen’s Rooms, Buchanan Street, to discuss the establishment of annual exhibitions of the work of living artists. Glasgow Corporation agreed to the hire of the Corporation Galleries, now named the McLellan Galleries, in Sauchiehall Street with the annual exhibition until 1879 when they opened their own Gallery in Sauchiehall Street but the expense of its own gallery was expensive and the institute sold its premises and in 1902 returned to the Corporation again at their now named McLellan Galleries.1902 they returned to their original gallery. Queen Victoria conferred its Royal status in 1896. Over the years such artistic luminaries as William Holman Hunt (1827–1910), John Lavery (1856-1941), John Everett Millais (1829–1896), Francis Henry Newbery, Jessie Wylie Newbery and Eduardo Paolozzi have all exhibited there. A new gallery, The Kelly Gallery, was opened in 1965 offering exhibitions throughout the year together with lectures and demonstrations and the Royal Glasgow Institute displays something in the region of four hundred works at its annual open exhibitions which usually take place in October and the Institute remains the largest and the best attended exhibition of contemporary art. It has provided space on its walls for many shades of artistic opinion and no longer operates the aesthetic censorship that was prevalent in the 1920 and 1930s. Over fifty Suffolk artists exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.
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