Acquisitions

The Friends have now helped the City’s Art Gallery acquire more than 300 items which might not otherwise have come to Bristol.  Some recent acquisitions are shown below.

(When the page has loaded, click on any image to view the gallery.   For a commentary on each item from 2007/8 click on News)

 

Acquisitions and Conservations made in 2009/10

Paper-cut Model of the South Front of Ashton Court cica 1834

Egyptian Tapestry by  Mahrous Abdou 2009

Egyptian Tapestry by  Mahrous Abdou 2009

Statue of Sir Charles Wetherell at The Red Lodge
‘Terrace House Demolition, Barton Hill’: Painted c 1963 by Gerald Cains RWA
Broken Roundabout’: Painted in 1960 by Gerald Cains RWA
Concrete Form II (provisional title) Spray painted on canvas in 2010 by ‘Ziml’
Brisuanadon a sculpture created in 2009 by Andy Council

 

Acquisitions made in 2008/9

Plate, porcelain, China repaired by Coombs of Bristol 1811

‘Rownham Ferry’: A watercolour and bodycolour on plaster of Paris painted in 1820 by John M Field

‘Frederick Strachan’: A watercolour by one of the Bristol School of artists c. 1832/3

 

Acquisitions made in 2007/8

Arthur Wilde Parsons RWA (1854 - 1931): self-portrait 1900

Thomas Upton: drawn by John Hay Bell of Bath 1808

Florence Upton: drawn by John Hay Bell of Bath 1808

Art Installation, Egypt Gallery: Marielle Neudecker 2008

Painted Jug: “View of Diamond Cottage Henbury 1820″ (Fifield)

‘A Daughter of Florence Poulett and Thomas Smith of Ashton Court, with her Black Page’ (circle of Gilbert Jackson c.1622-1640)

‘Gran Turismo’ (2005) by Megan Davies

‘HIV.2004′ a glass sculpture (2004) by Luke Jerram

 

A selection of acquisitions from previous years:

Richard Long, Delabole Slate Circle, Bristol

Barbara Hepworth, Hands

T L Rowbotham, Brislington

Karl Weschke, Leda and the Swan