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Manchester Art Gallery

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Museum or gallery in Greater Manchester

2,751 artworks

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Manchester Art Gallery is best known for its important, representative collection of work by nineteenth-century British artists, particularly the Pre-Raphaelites. This is a reflection of its history: the nucleus of the collection came from the Royal Manchester Institution which showed a preference for acquiring contemporary art that continued when it became the City Art Gallery in 1883. The Bradford collector, Charles Rutherston, presented his modern art collection to the Gallery in 1925 and significant contemporary works were acquired during both World Wars, resulting in one of the most important war art collections outside London. Since 1945, the holdings of eighteenth century British art have been strengthened with the purchase of paintings by, amongst others, Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds and George Stubbs. In 1979, the European Old Masters collection was transformed by the Assheton Bennett bequest of almost a hundred paintings, mainly by seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish artists. Today the collection includes over 2,000 oil paintings, plus related studies and archival material, and there is a renewed focus on collecting contemporary art.

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Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, Manchester, Greater Manchester M2 3JL England

0161 235 8888

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Artworks

  • Journey through Landscape, Lacoste to Bonnieux
    Journey through Landscape, Lacoste to Bonnieux Bill Culbert (1935–2019)
    Manchester Art Gallery
  • Liverpool from the Mersey
    Liverpool from the Mersey Charles Ernest Cundall (1890–1971)
    Manchester Art Gallery
  • Quai des Grands Augustins, Paris
    Quai des Grands Augustins, Paris Charles Ernest Cundall (1890–1971)
    Manchester Art Gallery
  • The Dead Bird
    The Dead Bird Prunella Clough (1919–1999)
    Manchester Art Gallery
  • Landscape with Barn
    Landscape with Barn Raymond James Coxon (1896–1997)
    Manchester Art Gallery
  • Muker Village, Swaledale
    Muker Village, Swaledale Raymond James Coxon (1896–1997)
    Manchester Art Gallery
  • Mushroom
    Mushroom Gillian Ayres (1930–2018)
    Manchester Art Gallery
  • 2,744 more

Artists

  • Self Portrait
    Anne Redpath (1895–1965)
  • The Woman and the Trictrac Game
    Robert MacBryde (1913–1966)
  • Heath Pond, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
    Wynford Dewhurst (1864–1941)
  • Evening Landscape with Cattle and Peasants Dancing to the Sound of a Pipe
    Paulus Potter (1625–1654)
  • Dame Elisabeth Frink (1930–1993), RA
    Elisabeth Frink (1930–1993)
  • Road at Sannois
    Maurice Utrillo (1883–1955)
  • Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Chelsea
    James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903)
  • Food and Fruits of Empire
    Vincent Brooks, Day and Sons Ltd
  • Chrysanthemums
    Edgar Rowley Smart (1887–1934)
  • Tony Oursler (b.1957)

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Venues in Greater Manchester

  •
    Abney Hall
  • Altrincham Town Hall
  • Ashton Town Hall
  • Astley Cheetham Art Gallery
  • Bolton Museum and Art Gallery
  • Bolton Town Hall
  • Bramall Hall
  • Bury Art Museum
  • Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Chetham's Library