Exhibition
The Clive Beardsmore Gift: Interventions in the Garman Ryan Galleries
4 Dec 2014 – 31 Dec 2015
Event times
10am - 5pm Tuesday - Saturday, Sundays 12noon - 4pm.
Closed Mondays and Bank Holidays
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Gallery Square
- Walsall, WS2 8LG
- Walsall
- WS2 8LG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Walsall
The 2015 interventions into the Garman Ryan Collection will be a selection from a new substantial gift of artworks donated to The New Art Gallery Walsall by a private collector, Clive Beardsmore.
About
Clive has a longstanding association with the Gallery, having early in his career served as an assistant to the then curator Michael Mosesson in the 1970s, at the time Walsall received Kathleen Garman's gift.
Throughout a career which has encompassed working as a town planner, lecturer, assistant curator, occasional artist's model, and continues as a professional historical researcher, Clive has been a long-term supporter of the Gallery, and now his personal collection finds a permanent home here.
Twenty of the 200 works received will be presented as interventions throughout the first and second floor galleries in 2015, in the themed Garman Ryan rooms, featuring works on paper by leading Modern British Artists such as Edward Bawden, John Bratby, Laura Knight, Graham Sutherland and Keith Vaughan, all artists previoulsy not represented in our collections. The Gift has enabled us to fill gaps and expand our holding of Modern British works in particular.
There will also be an introduction to this Gift on the Floor 1 corridor for three months, highlighting the different facets, and the personal nature of the collection and the relationship between private collector and artist.
