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1981. Wyllie, Murray. New Beginnings are in the Offing.

1981. L-R: George Wyllie, Dawson Murray, with Joseph Beuys's New Beginnings are in the Offing (also referred to as 'The Poorhouse Doors'), installed in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Inverleith House, Edinburgh. Beuys made the work in Edinburgh to be incorporated in the exhibition The Avant-Garde in Europe 1955-70 (works from the collection of the Staditsche Museum, Monchengladbach). The work incorporates the doors from the Forrest Hill Poorhouse, Edinburgh. It was acquired by the Staditsche Museum, Monchengladbach, and is now in the collection of the New National Gallery, Berlin.