Title: Oil paintings in public ownership in Hertfordshire /
Authors: Ellis, Andrew,; Roe, Sonia.; Garner, Richard.; Moss, Nicholas.; Public Catalogue Foundation.
Date: 2008
Publisher: Public Catalogue Foundation,
Physical description: xiv, 249 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language: English
LC class: N
Contents: The Paintings -- Ashwell -- Ashwell Village Museum -- Aston -- Aston Parish Council -- Baldock -- Baldock Community Association -- Baldock Museum -- Berkhamsted -- Berkhamsted Library* -- Berkhamsted Town Council -- Berkhamsted Town Hall Trust -- Dacorum Heritage Trust Ltd -- Bishop's Stortford -- Bishop's Stortford Museum -- Bishop's Stortford Town Council -- Borehamwood -- Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum -- Hertsmere Borough Council -- Bushey -- Bushey Museum and Art Gallery -- Bushey Museum, Reveley Lodge -- Harpenden -- Harpenden Town Council -- St George's School -- Hatfield -- Central Resources Library * -- University of Hertfordshire -- Veterinary Museum (The Royal Veterinary College) -- Welwyn Hatfield Museum Service -- Hemel Hempstead -- Apsley Paper Trail Archive -- Hertford -- Hertford Museum -- Hertford Town Council -- Hertfordshire County Council -- Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service -- Hitchin -- Hitchin Library* -- Hitchin Museum and Art Gallery * -- Hoddesdon -- Hoddesdon Library * -- Lowewood Museum -- Letchworth Garden City -- First Garden City Heritage Museum -- Letchworth Museum and Art Gallery* -- London Colney -- de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre (incorporating the Mosquito Aircraft Museum) -- Potters Bar -- Dame Alice Owen's School -- Potters Bar Museum -- Rickmansworth -- Moor Park Heritage Foundation -- Three Rivers District Council -- Three Rivers Museum of Local History -- Royston -- Royston and District Museum -- St Albans -- St Albans District Council -- St Albans Library* -- St Albans Museums -- St Albans Organ Theatre -- Stevenage -- Stevenage Borough Council -- Stevenage Central Library* -- Stevenage Museum -- Tring -- Natural History Museum at Tring -- Tring Library* -- Tring Town Council -- Ware -- Ware Museum -- Watford -- Parmiter's School -- Watford Central Library* -- Watford Museum -- Welwyn Garden City -- Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council -- Paintings Without Reproductions -- Further Information -- Collection Addresses. "This volume shows some 1,600 oil paintings in public ownership in the county of Hertfordshire. Drawn from over 40 collections across the county including museums, art galleries, council buildings, educational establishments and public libraries, the paintings in this catalogue provide a fascinating insight into the cultural heritage of the county. The catalogue includes Bushey Museum and Art Gallery with its nationally important holding of paintings by Hubert von Herkomer and his students, together with several fine eighteenth-century paintings in the Watford Museum collection and Letchworth Museum and Art Gallery's holding of early twentieth-century British works." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.