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Description: | 2000 works of art, mainly 19th and 20th century,representative of British art from Sir Thomas Lawrence in the 18th century to John Piper, Ivon Hitchens, Patrick Heron and Edward Wadsworth. New acquisitions from Andy Goldsworthy and David Mach.
William Powell Frith, a leading Victorian artist, was born and raised in the area, and is well represented in the collection with such renowned pieces as 'Many Happy Returns' and L'adieu du Marie Stuart. The collection includes many prominent Victorians such as Burne-Jones, Atkinson Grimshaw, Herring and Miles Birket Foster. Local artists are represented by watercolours of David Rose, Victorian watercolourist Bernard Evans and recent naive works by Knaresborough artist Joe Baker Fountain.
Photographs include some of the earliest war photography from the Crimea, and early Victorian photographs by Fenton, Robertson, Le Gray, and Julia Margaret Cameron. The prints include works by Durer, Tissot, Crome and Nevinson, along with historical topographical images of Harrogate and area including a number of pre-war railway posters. | Subjects: | Fine Art | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Swan Road
Harrogate,
HG1 2SA | FAX: | 01423 556130 | Telephone: | 01423 556188 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:1167 | Go to resource |
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