Scottish Art unveiled at William King Museum

William King Museum of Art is presenting The House, The Highlands and the Great Big Sea. This showcase of Scottish art is on display from March 5, 2026 through August 30, 2026. Scotland in the 19th Century was a place of conflicting emotions– with the many territorial disputes and historical conflicts between the highland clans and the English crown came political and economic turmoil, inciting authors like Sir Walter Scott and artists like the Faed brothers to create a romantic and at times nostalgic vision of green pastures and simple living. At the same time that Scottish cultural life was being re-evaluated as worthy of portrayal, Scottish men, sometimes out of desire and sometimes out of economic necessity, emigrated from the highlands, leaving behind wives, children and their elderly mothers and fathers. The hardship and the romance came