The exhibition 'Low: the 20th century's greatest cartoonist' planned for a November to Spring showing in the University 's Kelvin Gallery, will not now receive a Glasgow showing.

"There were funding and administrative problems which in the end we were unable to overcome.'" commented Evelyn Silber, Director of the Hunterian. "I am very sorry David Low's wonderfully pointed and brilliantly-drawn cartoons will not get a showing in Scotland. "

The exhibition, originated by the Political Cartoon Society, has been on show in Westminster Hall, London, sponsored by BBC Worldwide.

Current exhibitions are:
Intimate Friends: Scottish Colourists at the University of Glasgow
13 June 2002 - Spring 2003
The first extensive exhibition highlighting the University of Glasgow's important Scottish Colourist collection, mostly drawn from the gifts and bequest of three Glasgow Art collectors.

Mackintosh in France
30 July - 12 October
This display features a selection of 12 works from the Hunterian's important collection and complements the concurrent display of Scottish Colourists paintings in the Exhibition Gallery

Whistler to Freud
13 September - 23 November 2002
Recent acquisitions of drawings, paintings and other works of art
The Hunterian Print Room has the largest collection of works on paper north of Cambridge, with a particular strength in prints, but there are also fine drawings. Many of the greatest painters have extended the range of, and refined their imagery through making etchings or other types of print.

See the Hunterian website at: www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk

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First published: 29 August 2002