Monday, April 30, 2012
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Edgar Barclay - The faggott gatherers
signed and dated 'E. Barclay/1901' (lower left)
oil on canvas
36 5/8 x 61¼ in. (93 x 155.6 cm.)
Flora MacDonald Reid - Potato gatherers
signed 'Flora M. Reid 83' (lower left)
oil on canvas
27 x 18 in. (68.5 x 45.7 cm.)
(fl.1879-1938)
Thomas Sidney Cooper - Four sheep in a landscape
signed and dated 'T Sidney Cooper R A/1879' (lower left)
oil on panel
10 7/8 x 15 in. (27.7 x 38.1 cm.)
Westwood, K.J., Thomas Sidney Cooper C.V.O., R.A., His Life and Work, (David Leathers Publishing, 2011)
Louis Bosworth Hurt - In the wood
signed and dated 'Louis B Hurt/1882' (lower left) and inscribed, signed and dated 'In the wood/Louis B Hurt/Ashbourne/Derbyshire/1882' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
20 x 32.5 in. (50.8 x 82.5 cm.)
Friday, April 27, 2012
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Love and Death: Victorian Paintings from Tate
Love and Death: Victorian Paintings from Tate
Location: Birmingham Museum
8th September 2012 - 13th January 2013
This autumn eleven of the most spectacular paintings in the national collection come to Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.
This exclusive exhibition will display iconic paintings from Tate alongside related works from Birmingham ’s own collection. The centrepiece will be John William Waterhouse’s ‘The Lady of Shalott’ (1888), one of Tate’s most famous and popular works, which rarely travels outside London . It will be joined by two other paintings by Waterhouse: a rare opportunity to see this artist inBirmingham .
The exhibition also features classical paintings by the great 19th-century artists Frederic Leighton and Lawrence Alma-Tadema, revealing the Victorian fascination with re-imagining life in Greece and Rome , from lovers’ flirtations to dramatic martyrdom.
Exploring themes of love, beauty, tragedy and death, these powerful and moving paintings will create a spectacular display.
Gallery 12 & 13. Free admission.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Eliza Fraser
