City Art Centre

Dressed to Kill: Fashion, Costume and Dress in Scottish Art

15 June – 29 September 2013

Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, The Black Hat, 1914, courtesy City Art Centre, Edinburgh

Dressed to Kill showcases how Scottish artists have captured fashion, costume and dress over the years, from the late 17th century to the present day. The exhibition includes portrayals of a whole range of different types of costume, from mundane everyday working clothes to the most elaborate fashionable dress. There is an inevitable focus on the depiction of women and women’s costume but other sections will look at men’s clothing, children’s costume, headgear, working clothes and uniforms.

Central to the exhibition are two iconic Colourist portraits, J.D. Fergusson’s The Blue Hat and F.C.B. Cadell’s The Black Hat, both showing young women dressed up to the nines in the height of Edwardian fashion. The exhibition will also include works by Allan Ramsay, Henry Raeburn, E.A. Hornel, John Lavery, J.H. Lorimer, John Duncan, Stanley Cursiter, John Bellany, Adrian Wiszniewski, David Williams and Moyna Flannigan.

Selected to complement Coming into Fashion, the exhibition is drawn from the City Art Centre’s collection of Scottish Art - a Recognised Collection of National Significance - and includes paintings, watercolours, drawings, prints, photographs and sculpture.

Mon–Sat, 10am–7pm

Sun, 12–7pm

Free admission

City Art Centre

2 Market Street, EH1 1DE

0131 529 3993

www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk

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