Gracefield Arts Centre Permanent Collection history

Gracefield Arts Centre in Dumfries hosts over 600 original Scottish paintings in our permanent collection. We host a dynamic programme of exhibitions with regional, national and international artists represented.

The collection includes works of art dating from the 1840s to present day and this includes some of the best known Scottish artists and art movements, ranging from the Faeds through the Scottish Colourists, the Glasgow Boys and the Kirkcudbright School, via the prolific Eduardo Paolozzi, the seminal Joan Eardley to Peter Howson and some of the present day Scottish masters to be.

Gracefield Arts Centre is one of Dumfries & Galloways most familiar and well-loved art spaces and it is over half a century since the Gallery and the permanent collection came in to being.
 
The Gallerys building was bought in 1951 and a committee of local people were responsible for raising the money needed to buy the building and do the alterations that changed the former house, ‘Gracefield’ into an Art Gallery.  more