Discovering Degas: Collecting in the Age of William Burrell will open on Friday, May 24, shining a spotlight on all 23 Edgar Degas works from Burrell's original collection, alongside around 50 further paintings.
Discovering Degas: Collecting in the Age of William Burrell will open on Friday, May 24 at the newly renovated museum, located within Pollok Park. It is the first-time visitors can view all 23 Degas works from Burrell's original collection together in one place, including one from Berwick Museum and Art Gallery.
Loans are supported by the Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund. Created by the Garfield Weston Foundation and Art Fund, the Weston Loan Programme is the first ever UK-wide funding scheme to enable smaller and local authority museums to borrow works of art and artefacts from national collections. “We are indebted to the Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund and the many national and international collections who have loaned significant works, enabling The Burrell to host what promises to be a breath-taking show.
“This exhibition demonstrates the whole range of the artist’s output and creates a context for Burrell’s outstanding collection. Among those who developed a taste for Degas were other Glasgow shipbuilders like William McInnes, and several women, among them the yachting enthusiast Elizabeth Workman and the musician Rosalind Maitland.”
An accompanying publication, bespoke public programme, and a symposium, offering new opportunities for academic study, will allow visitors to learn more about his legacy in Britain.