Orkney to Edinburgh

The extraordinary woman called Margaret Gardiner is now in her 100th year. She created one of the most important art collections in the UK - then gifted it to the Pier Arts Centre on Orkney. The collection is now on loan to the Edinburgh Dean Gallery giving an unprecedented chance to see a significant body of British modernism from one of the most important art movements of the 20th century.

The exhibition amply describes the development of St Ives modernism. The peerless simplicity of three seascapes by Roger Hilton, still-life works by Nicholson and the Wallis ship paintings, the priceless Hepworth Large and Small Form of 1934, Patrick Heron - pulsating Small Red Square of 1958, William Scott - 1956 Still Life. These, and world-class Hepworths are as good as anything in the Tate.
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