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Looking at Art – what inspires artists, and how do artists express themselves?
The Artistic Optician : John Quinton Pringle – an optician with a passion for art, who developed a unique style of his own.
Investigating Art – paintings are not always what they seem and can change in fascinating ways.
Art Through a Lens – the art of the photographer in portraying nature and city life.
Continue past the shop entrance and take the turning left. Locate the south entrance to the Shop on your left and turn right here to locate the Lower East Stairs. Go up two flights of stairs to Ground Floor level then turn right, continue into the Main Hall. Turn right, continue to the wall then turn right again and go through the passage into the gallery.
Continue, to the wall then move to your right, past the entrance to the Restaurant and locate the East Lift to your left. At First Floor level, turn right and continue to the wall then turn right again into the gallery.
Enter the Main Hall, pass the seating outside Coffee at Kelvingrove, to your right and continue to the far side of the hall before turning right into the last passage. Go through this passage into the gallery.
This is a large, rectangular gallery with three central display features. You enter facing east from the Main Hall
Going Clockwise from the West Entrance
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poster, Conservation in Action painting, see Kelvingrove literature |
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painting, John Glassford and Family poster, Investigating Art Painting, William Meldrum paintings, various jutting out, sculpture, Nocturnal Landscape, George Harvey poster, Looking at Art painting, self portrait John Byrne bust of R B Cunningham Graham |
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entrance to Art Discovery Centre 3 paintings, Glasgow Scenes |
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painting, Windows in the West, Avril Paton various paintings entrance from East Court Art Through a Lens, photographs, various Glasgow scenes |
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poster' City Life entrance from Main Hall |
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painting, Girl with a Burmese Umbrella, showing difference brought about by cleaning paintings |
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interactive, the Art of Conservation painting, Doorway with a Water Barrel jutting out north, glass case |
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how paintings are cleaned |
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interactive, Can You Solve the Mystery of the Third Man? |
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photographs of astronomic phenomena jutting south Anything Can Be Photographed, with various viewers photos of Scottish wildlife |
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various photographs |
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glass cases, How pictures can be changed |
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changes that have happened to pictures poster, Pringle, the Optician more paintings of Pringle |
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selection of glasses arch with large pair of glasses |
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the story of John Quinton Pringle glass case with glasses and other opticians equipment |
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paintings by Lowry and Constable interactive, the Art of Looking jutting north, Modern Italy, Painting by Turner |
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portrait of Frances, daughter of Oliver Cromwell jutting north, interactive, the Art of Looking 2 paintings |
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painting, the 39th Week Counting, other side of interactive jutting south, painting, The Family Party, the Minuet round to west side, painting, Flowers and Insects other side of interactive, various paintings |