Editing Sean Scully (section)

=== 2001 - 2013 ===
In 2001, the [[Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth]] acquired the complete ''Catherine'' series, eighteen paintings that each represent a year from the period 1979–1996, which was given a dedicated room for permanent exhibition in the new Museum building opened in 2002.<ref name=":3" /> In 2002 Scully was appointed Professor of Painting at the [[Academy of Fine Arts, Munich]], a position he held through to 2007. A retrospective exhibition opened in 2004 at the [[Sara Hildén Art Museum]] in [[Tampere]], Finland, which travelled to [[Klassik Stiftung Weimar]], in Germany, and the [[National Gallery of Australia]]. While in Australia, Scully spent time travelling through the red desert interior. [[File:Sean Scully - Raval Rojo - 2004.jpg|thumb|''Raval Rojo'', 2004, oil on linen, 92 x 102 cm, [[Kerlin Gallery]], Dublin]]

Between 2005 - 2006, Sean Scully's ''Wall of Light'' series was displayed at museums around the United States. This began with the exhibition ''Sean Scully: Wall of Light'' opened at [[The Phillips Collection]], Washington D.C., and travelled to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the [[Cincinnati Art Museum]], and finally the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art to great acclaim.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/arts/design/29scul.html|title=Sean Scully: Wall of Light - Art - Review|last=Glueck|first=Grace|date=2006-09-29|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-12-17|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The same year Scully travelled with a group of students from the Art Academy in Munich, to [[Inisheer]], an island off the Irish coast. It was here that the ''Aran'' portfolio of photographs were taken. In 2006 the [[Hugh Lane Gallery]] opened ''The Sean Scully Room'', a dedicated, permanent installation of the artist's work, and the [[Bibliothèque nationale de France]] held an exhibition of his prints.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/art-in-focus-landline-gray-2015-by-sean-scully-1.3789709|title=Art in Focus: Landline Gray (2015) by Sean Scully|last=Dunne|first=Aidan|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=2019-12-17}}</ref> ''Sean Scully: A Retrospective'' opened in 2007 at the [[Fundació Joan Miró]], Barcelona, and travelled to the [[Musée d'art moderne (Saint-Étienne)]], and the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma (MACRO) in Rome.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2IzqAAAAMAAJ|title=Sean Scully: a retrospective|last1=Scully|first1=Sean|last2=Eccher|first2=Danilo|last3=Spain)|first3=Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona|last4=Saint-Etienne|first4=Musée d'art moderne|last5=Roma|first5=Museo d'arte contemporanea|date=2007|publisher=Thames & Hudson|isbn=9780500093382}}</ref> The [[National Gallery of Art]] in Washington D.C. invited Scully to give the Elson Lecture in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nga.gov/audio-video/audio/scully-persistence-style.html|title=Elson Lecture 2007: Sean Scully, Persistence and Style|website=nga.gov|access-date=2019-12-17}}</ref>

The retrospective exhibition ''Constantinople or the Sensual Concealed: The Imagery of Sean Scully'' opened in 2009 at the MKM Museum Küppersmühlefür Moderne Kunst, in Duisburg, Germany, and travelled to the Ulster Museum, Belfast.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stiftungkunst.de/kultur/en/projekt/constantinople-or-the-sensual-concealed-the-imagery-of-sean-scully/|title=Constantinople or the Sensual Concealed {{!}} The imagery of Sean Scully|website=Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V.|access-date=2019-12-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/constantinople-or-the-sensual-concealed-the-imagery-of-sean-scully-1.761226|title=Constantinople, or The Sensual Concealed: The Imagery of Sean Scully|last=Dunne|first=Aidan|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=2019-12-17}}</ref> In 2010 a tour of important early works from the 1980s started at the [[Centre for Contemporary Arts]], Carlow, Ireland, and then travelled to the [[Leeds Art Gallery]], and the [[Wilhelm-Hack-Museum]] in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. In 2011 the [[Chazen Museum of Art]] opened their new expansion of the museum with a solo exhibition of Scully's eight-part ''Liliane'' paintings on aluminum, and other works. Scully opened nine more solo museum exhibitions in 2012, including ''Notations: Sean Scully'' at the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]], as well as exhibitions at museums like [[Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art|MIMA]], [[Kunstmuseum Bern]], the Lentos Kunstmuseum in [[Linz]], and [[IVAM]] in Valencia, Spain.