Royal Scottish Academy
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The Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) is the country’s national academy of art. It promotes contemporary Scottish art.
The RSA Building on Princes Street, Edinburgh
First President of the Scottish Academy, George Watson (1767-1837)
The RSA was formerly housed in the National Gallery of Scotland (left) until it moved to the Royal Institution building (right) in 1911
The RSA New Contemporaries Exhibition, 2022
Scottish art
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Scottish art is the body of visual art made in what is now Scotland, or about Scottish subjects, since prehistoric times. It forms a distinctive tradition within European art, but the political union with England has led its partial subsumation in British art.
Part of the combination of sculpture and landscape used at Ian Hamilton Finlay's Little Sparta
The Torrs Pony-cap and Horns, as displayed in 2011
A replica of the Hilton of Cadboll Stone
One of the Stirling Heads showing James V