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An exceptional location with a superb art collection. Worth a detour as they're now showing the art from Britain's greatest prison experiment: from HMP Barlinne's Special Unit...made famous by Jimmy Boyle. Photos not allowed in the Special Unit collection....these are only at the entrance...and from the main exhibition.
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A place that I like to be in for quiet study and revision
A nice chilled out hour spent enjoying the art which is part of Hull city of culture 2017
For a relatively small gallery that concentrates on those making art in Britain from 1890 to 1940 this is a quite remarkable collection and worth a detour! For what it's worth my own favourites were: Augustus John's 'Mrs Randolph Schwabe' & 'Baby and Bottle'; Henry Tonks' 'Girl w/ Wrists Crossed' & 'Woman in a Feathered Hat'; Henry Moore's domestic scale 'Family Group, 1945'; Charles Cundall's 'Weir Bridge' (ca. 1920); Jacob Epstein's 'Self Portrait w/ beard, 1930' (bronze), 'Two Models' (pencil drawing) & '2nd Portrait of Joan Greenwood, 1948' (gilded studio plaster from which bronze was cast); Eric Gill's 'Roland for an Oliver, 1910' (bas relief); quite a little collection of paintings by Clifford Hall, previously unknown to me. There's much, much more of course: excellent examples of both Stanley Spencer and Peter Howson to name but 2 . . . neither of whom float my boat! The curators (currently John Bernasconi) seem to have done a remarkably fine job considering that the collection was started with 300 and an art dealer's recommendation that, at that time, the most under-valued art was precisely the area in which the gallery specialises.
Nice and friendly environment. It is a good place for discussion and study.
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