The Art of Collecting
 

| The Newport Museum and Art Gallery collections |

 

John Wilson & Roger Cucksey, Guest Curators

Newport Museum and Art Gallery - July 2007 

 

 

CATALOGUE

 

  • The following is a list of works exhibited in the exhibition The Art of Collecting.    
  • Art works are arranged chronologically. 

 

 

[1] Sir Frank Brangwyn R.A. (1867-1956)

Sunday: Portloe, Cornwall (d)

  • Oil painting on canvas
  • Purchased, 1968
  • Grant aided by the Museums & Galleries Commission
  • NPTMG: 1968.138

 


[2] James Flewitt Mullock (1818-1892)

Charles Randell with his Greyhounds (1849)

  • Oil painting on canvas
  • Donated by Mr and Mrs Llewellyn Brewer-Williams, 1924
  • NPTMG: 1924.7



[3] Joseph Clark (1834-1926)

The Draughts Players (1859)

  • Oil on canvas
  • Purchased, 1933
  • NPTMG: 1934.1



[4] Henry Jutsum (1816-1869)

Tintern Abbey (1861)

  • Oil painting on canvas
  • Purchased, 1953
  • NPTMG: 1953.89



[5] Christopher Wood (1901-1930)

Flowers in a tall vase (1920s)

  • Oil painting on canvas
  • Donated by the Contemporary Art Society for Wales, 1961
  • NPTMG: 1961.54



[6] Alexander Stanhope Forbes R.A. (1857-1947)

The Pond (1930)

  • Oil painting on canvas
  • Purchased, 1930
  • NPTMG: 1930.69



[7] Terrick Williams R.A. (1860-1936)

Evening: Mousehole, Cornwall (1930s)

  • Oil painting on canvas
  • Purchased from the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 1933
  • NPTMG: 1933.53



[8] Charles Spencelayh (1865-1958)

“Sure to Catch” (1932)

  • Oil painting on canvas
  • Purchased from the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 1932
  • NPTMG: 1932.47



[9] Leonard Fuller R.A. (1891-1973)

Autumn Sunshine (1932)

  • Oil painting on canvas
  • Purchased from the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 1933
  • NPTMG: 1933.55



[10] Sir William Russell Flint R.A. (1880-1969)

Gitana Dancers Resting: Albaicin, Granada (1933)

  • Oil painting on canvas,
  • Purchased from the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 1933
  • NPTMG: 1933.54



[11] Dorothea Sharp (1874-1955)

Sea Bathers (1934)

  • Oil painting on canvas
  • Purchased from the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 1934
  • NPTMG: 1934.32



[12] Noel L. Nisbet (1887-1956)

Evil spirits wander through the world (1934)

  • Oil painting on canvas
  • Purchased from the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 1938
  • NPTMG: 1938.58



[13] Merlyn Evans (1910-1973)

The Tragic Group: Victims of Demolition in Finland (1940)

  • Tempera painting on panel,
  • Purchased, 1984
  • Grant aided by the Museums & Galleries Commission
  • NPTMG: 1984.41



[14] Sir Alfred Munnings R.A. (1878-1959)

Chantilly (1940s)

  • Oil painting on canvas
  • Purchased from the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 1946
  • NPTMG: 1946.80

 

 

[15] Patricia Preece (1894-1966)

Girl Knitting (1940s)

  • Oil painting on canvas
  • Donated by the Contemporary Art Society for Wales, 1947
  • NPTMG: 1947.8.1



[16] Edward Wadsworth A.R.A. (1889-1949

Anticyclone (1943)

  • Egg tempera painting on wood panel
  • Purchased from the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 1948
  • NPTMG: 1948.73



[17] Ceri Richards (1903-1971)

Blue Figures (1949)

  • Oil painting on canvas
  • Donated by the Contemporary Art Society, 1979
  • NPTMG: 1979.154



[18] John Minton (1917- 1957)

Two Fishermen (1949)

  • Oil on canvas
  • Purchased from the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1949
  • NPTMG: 1949.199



[19] Sir Kyffin Williams R.A. (1918-2006)

Cwm Pennant (1950)

  • Oil painting on canvas
  • Purchased, 1953
  • NPTMG: 1953.78



[20] Leslie Hunter (1877-1931)

Still Life (ca. 1950s)

  • Oil painting on canvas
  • Purchased, 1952
  • NPTMG: 1952.106

 

 

[21] Sir Stanley Spencer R.A. (1891-1959)

Sausage Shop (1951)

  • Oil painting on canvas,
  • Purchased from the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 1951
  • NPTMG: 1951.19.3



[22] John Elwyn (1916-1997)

The Mothers (1952)

Oil painting on canvas

Donated by the Contemporary Art Society for Wales, 1957

NPTMG: 1957.147



[23] L.S.Lowry (1887-1976)

Francis Street, Salford (1957)

  • Oil painting on canvas,
  • Purchased, 1957
  • NPTMG: 1957.146



[24] Jeffrey Steele (born 1931)

Eleusis (1969)

  • Oil painting on canvas
  • Purchased, 1969
  • Grant aided by the Museums & Galleries Commission
  • NPTMG: 1969.23

 

 

[25] William Scott R.A. (1913-1989)

Six Open Forms (1971)

  • Oil painting on canvas
  • Donated by the Contemporary Art Society for Wales, 1975
  • NPTMG: 1975.43



[26] Roy Gerrard (born 1935)

The Compliant Landlady (1979)

  • Watercolour on paper
  • Purchased from the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 1980
  • NPTMG: 1980.93