The Fine Art Collection includes oil paintings, watercolours,
drawings, prints and sculptures, photography and video. It is
a very diverse collection with individual important works such
as
A Prospect of Worcester 1750 and Chadding on Mounts Bay by Stanhope
Forbes and has strengths in key areas such as 19th century landscape
and watercolour painting - see Artist Index. |
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The
collection has a predominance of landscape painting from the
19th century. Local artists are well represented, particularly
work by Benjamin Williams Leader who was born in Worcester and
was seen as one of the great landscape painters of his generation.
The gallery also has important work by Henry Harris Lines and
Harry Adams. |
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The Sale Bequest is perhaps one of the most important
groups of work held by the museum and includes a total of 84
works gifted to the museum in 1915. The Sales of Holt in Worcestershire
were described by a friend as: "people of cultured taste who
could afford to travel widely and indulge their interest in
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Mrs Sale is
described as a discriminating critic and an accomplished artist herself
and it is thought that is was Mrs Sale that influenced the collection.The
Sales bequeathed their collection to the nation at a time before Worcester
had its own museum. However by 1915 Worcester had built its own gallery
and when the representatives from the British Museum came to view
the Sale collection they chose far fewer works than had been anticipated
and subsequently the majority of the collection came to Worcester.
The collection includes work by David Cox, Samual Prout, Peter de
Wint, Thomas Sidney Cooper and William Callow. |
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20th century paintings - The gallery has a small collection
of 20th century paintings, which is very broad in subject ranging
from early modernism to abstraction. This intriguing collection includes
work by Stanhope Forbes, Laura Knight, Charles Ginner, Bernard Meninsky,
Alan Davie and Duncan Grant. |
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During
the 1960's and 1970's the gallery built up a small, but important
collection of prints by modern and contemporary artists including
work by Howard Hodgkin, Barbara Hepworth and Elizabeth Frink.
Since this time the collection has continued to grow and is
seen as an important way of introducing the work of modern artists
into the collection and recent aquisitions include a mono print
by Gillian Ayres. |
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