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Curations on Art UK promoting artworks cared for by museums and galleries across the UK
Curious like Taylor Swift about the Ophelia story? Ophelia in UK museums and galleries
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Curious like Taylor Swift about the Ophelia story? Ophelia in UK museums and galleries | Art UK
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The wood engraving renaissance is a story now told more effectively on Art UK
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thanks to collections like Aberdeen
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now updating Art UK using the Museum Data Service. This Curation explores 15 leading women engravers
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20th Century spotlight: 15 Women artists associated with the renaissance of wood engraving | Art UK
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Evocative and poignant end of the Second World War images by photographer Leonard McCombe, born in St Erin, at the House of Manannan in Peel on the Isle of Man, until 5 October
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A week highlighting the works on paper collection at Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
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now also on Art UK
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concludes with how preparatory drawings relate to Robert Sivell's painted panels for Aberdeen University
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20th Century Spotlight: Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums: Robert Sivell and Aberdeen University Panel paintings and preparatory drawings | Art UK
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Angus Neil was a lifelong friend of Joan Eardley. His work includes a significant group of pastels from Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
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- the first collection to share its entire works on paper holdings with
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20th Century spotlight: Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums: Pastels by Angus Neil | Art UK
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Studies James Cowie realised relating to several major paintings are a particular highlight from their works on paper that Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
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now have uploaded on Art UK
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using the Museum Data Service
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20th Century spotlight: Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums: James Cowie's preparatory drawings for group portraits | Art UK
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The astonishing James McBey Archive on Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
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- now also on Art UK
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has many fascinating entry points; for me his prints of Venice are absolutely extraordinary, as here
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20th Century spotlight: Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums: James McBey in Venice | Art UK
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Yesterday, prints, today wonderful 20th drawings and watercolours from Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
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now on Art UK
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The 1st collection to update their entire art collection using the Museum Data Service - bravo!
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20th Century spotlight: Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums: Drawings and watercolours | Art UK
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Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
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were the first collection to upload their entire works on paper collection to
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through the Museum Data Service 😃. The first of series of Curations celebrating their amazing collection
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20th Century Spotlight: Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums: Prints | Art UK
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All 18 of the Curations on
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bringing together 1,200 of the 6,000 artworks from within the War Artists' Advisory Commitee scheme appear on
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within the Curations area of the Art UK website
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Art UK | Discover Curations
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Doris Zinkeisen concludes this Curation on
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with her wartime artworks realised whilst she served as a nurse. These Curations have been brought together from artworks in UK public art collections to highlight the War Artists' Advisory Committee scheme
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War Artists' Advisory Committee: Alfred Thomson to Doris Zinkeisen | Art UK
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Stanley Spencer's seven Shipbuilding on the Clyde tripytchs form the centrepiece of this Curation on
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marking the work of the War Artists' Advisory Committee, brought together to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War
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War Artists' Advisory Committee: Peter Scott to Graham Sutherland | Art UK
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The work of Ravilious is well-known, but the radar installations painted by William Thomas Rawlinson far less so. Highlights from the 14th part of the War Artists' Advisory Committee set of Curations on
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War Artists' Advisory Committee: Eric Ravilious to Walter Westley Russell | Art UK
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Haunting paintings by John Piper of a wartime control centre and the destroyed Coventry Cathedral feature in this latest Curation on
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focussing on the artists who realised for the War Artists' Advisory Committee during the Second World War
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Art UK | Discover Curations
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Stanley Spencer's remarkable 'Shipbuilding on the Clyde' series feature in the latest Curation on
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focussed on the works acquired by the War Artists' Advisory Committee, marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe
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War Artists' Advisory Committee: Peter Scott to Graham Sutherland | Art UK
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Paul Nash's 'Totes Meer' and Henry Moore's tube shelters feature in the latest Curation on
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focussed on the War Artists' Advisory Committee to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. All works now in UK public art collections.
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War Artists' Advisory Committee: Frances Macdonald to Roy Nockolds | Art UK
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In late May 1941 'Britain at War' opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, drawn in part from artworks acquired by the War Artists' Advisory Committee. Some of the exhibits, now in public UK art collections, are presented in this Curation on
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Artists and wartime places: the 1941 'Britain at War' exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York | Art UK
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Laura Knight and Eric Kennington, two stand-out wartime artists featured in the latest of the series of Curations on
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marking the end of the Second World War in Europe with an exploration of the work of the War Artists' Advisory Committee
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War Artists' Advisory Committee: F. Ernest Jackson to Neville Stephen Lytton | Art UK
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Bernard Hailstone's remarkable portraits of everyday people in their line of duty are the focus in the latest Curation on
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on the work of the War Artists' Advisory Committee to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe
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War Artists' Advisory Committee: Bernard Hailstone | Art UK
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Ethel Gabain amongst a number of overlooked women war artists featured in the latest Curation on
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focussing on the War Artists' Advisory Committee artworks produced during the Second World War, and now in many museums across the UK
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War Artists' Advisory Committee: Ethel Gabain to Philip Hulton | Art UK
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Panaromic views of Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain by Richard Eurich form part of the latest Curation on
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in a series on the War Artists' Advisory Committee marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe
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War Artists' Advisory Committee: Ian Eadie to Barnett Freedman | Art UK
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Evelyn Dunbar's paintings feature significantly in the next in a series of Curations on
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exploring the work of the War Artists's Advisory Committee. A series of posts marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe
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War Artists' Advisory Committee: Albert Daniels to Charles Dyson-Smith | Art UK
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Leslie Cole's wartime paintings are some of the most powerful acquired by the War Artists' Advisory Committee. They are next in a series of Curations on
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exploring this scheme to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe
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War Artists' Advisory Committee: Leslie Cole | Art UK
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Henry Marvell Carr painted mainly portraits for the War Artists' Advisory Committee, but also war at home and in Africa. He is the focus of this Curation on
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in the latest of a series marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War
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War Artists' Advisory Committee: Henry Marvell Carr | Art UK
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The War Artists' Advisory Committee commissioning programme benefitted art collections across the UK after the war. The latest Curation in the series on
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marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe is presented here
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War Artists' Advisory Committee: Patrick Carpenter to Charles Cundall | Art UK
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Paintings by Stephen Bone from Normandy to Norway are the focus of the third part of the series marking the end of the Second World War in Europe from the War Artists' Advisory Committee scheme. It has been created using the Curations tool on
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War Artists' Advisory Committee: Stephen Bone: Normandy and Norway | Art UK
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Stephen Bone's artworks before Normandy are the focus of the second in a series on artists and artworks from the War Artists’ Advisory Committee scheme, created with the Curations tool on
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to mark the end of the Second World War in Europe
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War Artists' Advisory Committee: Stephen Bone before Normandy | Art UK
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Marking the end of the Second World War in Europe, the first in a series on artists and artworks from the War Artists’ Advisory Committee scheme, created with the Curations tool on
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. These artworks were distributed to over 50 art collections in 1947
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War Artists' Advisory Committee: Enid Abrahams to Robert D. F. Butler | Art UK
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