Glasgow Museum Gets a “Scream”

Published: June 15, 2009

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Edvard Munch's "The Scream" (1893-1910)

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GLASGOW—It’s one of the most familiar, and most stolen, works of modern art: a shrieking figure set against a blood-red sky. Now a black-and-white lithograph version of Edvard Munch's The Scream is on display at the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery here until September, along with 40 other works by the Norwegian Symbolist artist.

The exhibition will be the most substantial display of Munch's prints in the U.K. in more than 35 years. This is also the last time the Scream print will be seen outside the Munch Museum, in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. Munch created several versions of The Scream in various media, including paint and pastel, several of which have been the targets of high-profile art thefts. In 1994, the version in the National Gallery of Norway was taken but was recovered several months later. In 2004, The Scream was stolen from the Munch Museum and retrieved two years later.

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