The Art of Collecting

 The Newport Museum and Art Gallery Collections

John Wilson & Roger Cucksey, Guest Curators

Newport Museum and Art Gallery - July 2007

 


An exhibition exploring over a hundred years of collecting at the Newport Museum and Art Gallery. 

The ART OF COLLECTING is the second project in the Explorations series,  showcasing works of art in the permanent collections of the Newport Museum and Art Gallery.

  

 

 

 

News

  

 

Metro Magazine |  THE ART OF COLLECTING | Brodie Lyon |  August 2007 |  "Since opening a gallery space in 1895, Newport Museum has collected an important and vastly diverse body of work. | The Art of Collectingmeans that many historically important pieces are at last on show to the public. The calibre is top-notch and among the artists represented are LS Lowry and Sir Stanley Spencer. | There's a sense of balance to this exhibition, encompassing both new and old, classical and satirical".

 

 

Exhibition theme | The art of collecting

 

 


Preface

  

THE ART OF COLLECTING opened on 20 July 2007, and the exhibition remained on public display throughout 2008. 

 

Following the exhibition  Documenting the City  ( May - July 2007) which celebrated Newport's coming of age as a City, this exhibition likewise explores the  formation and growth of Newport's public art collections. 

 

The exhibition features a diverse range of mostly twentieth century works by notable British and Welsh artists including Sir Frank Brangwyn R.A., Christopher Wood, Alexander Stanhope Forbes R.A., Terrick Williams R.A., Sir William Russell Flint R.A., Dorothea Sharp, Merlyn Evans, Sir Alfred Munnings R.A., Patricia Preece, Edward Wadsworth A.R.A., Ceri Richards, Sir Kyffin Williams R.A., Sir Stanley Spencer R.A., John Elwyn , L.S.Lowry, Jeffrey Steele, and William Scott R.A..

 

 

Theme 

 

THE ART OF COLLECTING provides a public airing of works by some of the better known artists in the Newport Museum and Art Gallery's permanent collections. 

 

Over a hundred years in the making, Newport has quietly built up a public art collection of which it can be proud. The exhibition highlights the way in which the Newport Museum and Art Gallery's permanent collections have been formed through a fortuitous mix of private benefactions, public educational principles and curatorial nurturing over the decades.

 

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Acknowledgements

The Art of Collecting is produced by Roger Cucksey, Keepr of Art, Newport Museum and Art Gallery and John Wilson, Guest Curator.  

 

Roger Cucksey   gratefully acknowledges the voluntary assistance of  Sarah Griffiths.


The Art of Collecting is the second project in the Explorations series,  showcasing works of art in the permanent collections of the Newport Museum and Art Gallery.


Image credits

Jeffrey Steele, Eleusis (1969)

 

John Wilson | July 2007

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