Alasdair Gray works go on display at Kelvingrove

Alasdair Gray generously gifted The Morag McAlpine Bequest to Glasgow Life Museums following the death of his wife Morag McAlpine in 2014. Nine works from this significant collection will be on show for the first time, in Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, from Saturday 14 June.

Alasdair Gray: Works from The Morag McAlpine Bequest celebrates 10 years since this treasured gift was donated to the city that meant so much to the artist. Exhibited in the Fragile Art Gallery, the new display opens in what would have been Gray’s 90th year, in the very place where he credited a weekend art class with sparking his early love of painting.

Works on display include the original design artwork for Poor Things – his novel published in 1992, the wrap-around jacket for Old Negatives, artwork in progress for the jacket design of Agnes Owens' People Like That, and A Working Mother, among others.