North Yorkshire

July 2006
This catalogue has 415 pages with some 2,719 colour reproductions. The dimensions are 29.5 x 23.5 cm and the catalogues typically weigh between 1.8 - 2.8 kg.

This catalogue displays the great wealth of publicly owned oil paintings in the vast county of North Yorkshire. Over 2,700 paintings are reproduced from 42 collections. This includes all the oils from the municipal galleries in York, Harrogate and Scarborough together with 483 paintings from the National Railway Museum, almost all of which are in store. The catalogue also reveals for the first time the paintings from the Roebuck Collection that was left to Skipton almost 20 years ago and has been hidden ever since.

Collections included

Beck Isle Museum of Rural Life; Bedale Hall; Captain Cook Memorial Museum; Colburn Town Council; Craven Museum & Gallery; Eden Camp Modern History Theme Museum; Fairfax House; Filey Museum; Grassington Folk Museum; Knaresborough Town Council; Kohima Museum; Merchant Adventurers’ Hall; Museum of North Craven Life; National Railway Museum; North Yorkshire County Council; North Yorkshire Library and Information Services; Pannett Art Gallery; Pickering Memorial Hall; Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire; Richmondshire Museum; Ripon City Council; Roebuck Collection; Ryedale Folk Museum; Scarborough Museums and Gallery; Skipton Town Council; The Green Howards Regimental Museum; The Laurence Sterne Trust; The Mansion House and Guildhall; The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate; The Military Museum of the Royal Dragoon Guards; The Richmond Collection; The University of York; Thirsk Museum; Whitby Museum; York Museums Trust; York St John University College; Yorkshire Air Museum