Glenkiln Sculpture Park is a sculpture landscape in Dumfries and Galloway

Dumfries and Galloway

Dumfries and Galloway is one of 32 unitary council areas of Scotland. It was one of the nine administrative 'regions' of mainland Scotland created in 1975 by the Local Government etc. Act 1973...

, south-west Scotland

Scotland

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. It comprises six sculptures placed in a moorland setting around Glenkiln Reservoir. The sculptures are located around 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) north-west of Shawhead, and 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) west of Dumfries

Dumfries

Dumfries is a market town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland. It is near the mouth of the River Nith into the Solway Firth. Dumfries was the county town of the former county of Dumfriesshire. Dumfries is nicknamed Queen of the South...

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Between 1951 and 1976, local landowner Sir William Keswick assembled a collection of works by August Rodin, Henry Moore

Henry Moore

Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA was an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art....

, and Jacob Epstein

Jacob Epstein

Sir Jacob Epstein KBE was an American-born British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British citizen in 1911. He often produced controversial works which challenged taboos on what was appropriate subject matter...

. Keswick worked with the artists in siting their works in a natural landscape, and commissioned works.

The sculptures are:

• Saint John the Baptist
  Saint John the Baptist (Rodin)
  Saint John the Baptist is a bronze sculpture, by Auguste Rodin.After the controversy of his Age of Bronze, Rodin began modeling the larger than life figure in 1877.He showed a plaster model at the Salon of 1880....
  
  (1878) by Auguste Rodin
• Visitation (1926) by Jacob Epstein
• Standing Figure (1950) by Henry Moore
• King and Queen (1952–53) by Henry Moore
• Upright Motive No. 1: Glenkiln Cross
  Upright Motive No. 1: Glenkiln Cross
  Upright Motive No. 1: Glenkiln Cross is a sculpture by Henry Moore.Between 1951 and 1976, Sir William Keswick, who owned the Glenkiln estate, bought and arranged works by Henry Moore, Jacob Epstein, and Auguste Rodin, creating the world's first collection of sculpture in a landscape setting,...
  
  (1955–56) by Henry Moore
• Two Piece Reclining Figure No.1 (1959) by Henry Moore

There is also a memorial to commemorate the diamond wedding of Sir William and Lady Keswick.

External links

• Glenkiln Estate, Henry Moore: Works in Public