National gallery show for Eaglesham artist's painting
4 January-
The painting by John McGuire is on show at the National Portrait Gallery
A painting by Eaglesham artist John E Maguire is currently on display in the refurbished, and recently reopened, Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.
The work, entitled Interior of a Curling Stone Workshop, belongs to East Renfrewshire Council's heritage service and was cleaned and framed in 2010.
The painting is part of the Maguire collection that the heritage service is working on as part of the heritage lottery funded Museum Artefacts Project.
The heritage service plans, as part of the project, to get selected works in the collection cleaned and framed for display in Eaglesham.
The council has loaned the painting to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery for the Playing for Scotland exhibition which will run until December 2014. The exhibition traces the transformation of sport during the nineteenth century when traditional games flourished and new sports were invented.
From football to fishing, canoeing to curling, hunting to hockey, this sporting revolution is illustrated through paintings, photographs and prints and a specially-commissioned film.
Check the national galleries website for further information.
More paintings by John E Maguire can be viewed on portal to the past website and more information on the Museum Artefacts Project at our blog.
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