A MASSIVE McTaggart masterpiece is to go on public display for the
At 177cms by 2.5m, the painting is so big it couldn’t be manoeuvred through the old gallery doors but The Coming Of Saint Columba will now take its rightful place in a gallery devoted entirely to the works of Sir William McTaggart, widely regarded as one of Scotland’s greatest landscape artists.
Long before the £38.62 million revamp of the building, large paintings were lowered into place by a pulley system through the floor but this was phased out and The Coming Of Saint Columba has not been displayed since 1997. “The Coming Of Saint Columba is an interesting painting because it was painted in 1895 and looks to the past by depicting the arrival of Columba in 563, but it depicts it in a really modern language.
“I think he is thinking about the birth and decline of a culture because in a way, the arrival of Saint Columba was the birth of Celtic civilisation and a particular kind of Gaelic culture and, similarly, the effect of Highland emigration and the Clearances in the 19th century was destroying a particular kind of way of life and culture,” she said.
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