Lakeland Arts - What's On Guide

Colour and Light: The Art and Influence of the Scottish Colourists - Highlights from the Fleming Collection 18 October 2019 - 1 February 2020 Abbot Hall Art Gallery The permanent collection consists predominantly of eighteenth and twentieth century British paintings. There is also a significant number of nineteenth century watercolours. Abbot Hall Art Gallery possesses works by George Romney ranging from portraits commissioned during his early period in Kendal, to his 1776 masterpiece, The Gower Family, commissioned after his move to London. The modern collection includes works by Barbara Hepworth. One was sited by Hepworth herself outside Abbot Hall in 1963. In recent years Abbot Hall has been active in adding contemporary British works, including Frank Auerbach, Paula Rego, Tony Bevan, and Celia Paul. There is also a growing collection of prints, including etchings by David Hockney, lithographs by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Henry Moore and aquatints by Sean Scully. For more than half-a-century Abbot Hall Art Gallery has built up an outstanding collection and a strong reputation for showing exhibitions of national and international artists. Abbot Hall A new beginning… The gallery and surrounding estate will undergo a major redevelopment planned to start in 2020. Watch out for exciting news about this development. George Romney, The Gower Family , c1776-77. Luxembourg Gardens , S J Peploe, c. 1910, © The Fleming Collection This show presents the work and influences of the Scottish Colourists, centred on masterworks from the renowned Fleming Collection which is the finest collection of Scottish art outside public museums and institutions. The Colourist paintings by SJ Peploe, JD Fergusson, Leslie Hunter, and FCB Cadell, have been at the heart of the Fleming Collection since its inception in the 1960’s. 6 7