Kachinas, Charms and Crocodiles: Researching Roland Penrose’s Ethnographic Collection

National Galleries Scotland (NGS) has, for the past 25 years, had on loan a collection of naturalia, artworks and ethnographic objects that belonged to the artist and collector Roland Penrose (1900-1984). A Surrealist interpretation of a ‘Wunderkammer’, these objects span millennia and culture, comprising an eclectic array of media and meaning: from a 2000-year-old Cycladic […]