Category: History Timeline Part 1

A series of David Hockney’s line illustrations for Grimms’ Fairy Tales are displayed.

Prints, drawings, tapestry and sculpture by Eduardo Paolozzi form a significant part of the Annual. He also designs the exhibition poster, which is now in…

The Yeats Commemorative Exhibition at the Annual is the first comprehensive exhibition of the Irish painter Jack B Yeats.

A blockbuster show of works by Nicolas de Staël, who died the previous year, forms part of the Annual. Joan Eardley is on the Hanging…

SSA President Colin Thoms secures a loan exhibition of German Expressionist paintings.

The SSA becomes aware of a need to expand its exhibitions outside of Edinburgh, and holds the Annual in the McLellan Galleries in Glasgow for…

The French Government assists the Society in staging the first post-war exhibition of recent French art in the UK. The gallery is filled with contemporary…

During the Second World War, several Polish soldier-artists are stationed in Edinburgh under a programme to present Polish culture to the public. Many show their…

A major show of Surrealist work is mounted at the Annual, including work by Dalí, Picasso, Giorgio de Chirico and Max Ernst. Munch is made…

The Annual includes work by Georges Braque and Chaim Soutine.