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Indepth Arts News:
"The Vaughan Bequest of Turner Watercolours"
2002-01-01 until 2002-01-31
National Gallery of Scotland
Edinburgh, ,
UK United Kingdom
The New Year begins at the National Gallery of Scotland with its annual
display of magnificent Turner watercolours, bequeathed in 1900 by the
London art collector Henry Vaughan. Dating from throughout Turner's long
career, the thirty-eight works of the Vaughan Bequest have been exhibited
annually at the National Gallery for one hundred years.
Vaughan stipulated
that the watercolours must not be subjected to permanent display, since
continual exposure to light would result in their fading. In his will he ruled
that the collection could only be shown in January, when daylight is at its
weakest and least destructive levels. As a result, the annual January
exhibition has become a tradition at the National Gallery, despite the fact that
modern technology now enables the light levels to be monitored and
controlled at all times.
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