The title of John Duncan’s Ivory, Apes and Peacocks: The Queen of Sheba (c.1923) refers to gifts that this Ethiopian Queen brought to King Solomon but it is also highlights the painting’s major problem – its white, European-looking sovereign with attendants of colour. An opportunity to discuss with Curator of British Art Jo Meacock and Curator of Legacies of Slavery and Empire Nelson Cummins how/if Glasgow Museums should display and contextualize such problematic paintings.

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