Oil paintings in public ownership in Cheshire
By: coordinator, Margaret Harrison ; photographer, Gordon MacGregor
Contributors: Public Catalogue Foundation
Publisher: Public Catalogue Foundation
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781904931904
Subjects: Art museums; Catalogs; Painting; Art; Collectors and collecting; Catalogues; Musées; Peinture; Collectionneurs et collections
Description: This Cheshire volume shows over 1,100 oil paintings from 26 publicly-owned collections in the county. The largest collection is that of Warrington Museum & Art Gallery with some 340 works, including paintings by local artists Luke Fildes, Henry Woods and James Charles. Paintings from the Cheshire collections range from works by J.M.W. Turner and Sir Joshua Reynolds at Tabley House to Methodist religious banners at Englesea Brook Chapel and Museum and railway paintings at Crewe Heritage Centre. The Grosvenor Museum, Chester includes works from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries and includes a collection of contemporary art celebrating the quality and diversity of the region.
Notes: Includes index.