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John Nash, The Dredgers, Bristol Harbour, c.1924, Oil on canvas, Gift of the Contemporary Art Society, 1954
Exhibition
Touring the Swindon Collection, 60 Years On
30 Jul 2019 – 9 Nov 2019
Event times
Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 4.30pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Civic Offices
- Euclid Street
- Swindon
England - SN1 2JH
- United Kingdom
In 1959, the Swindon Collection of Modern British art began a tour of 16 towns and cities of the United Kingdom.
About
From Falmouth to Sunderland, Southend-on-Sea to Bolton, thousands of museum visitors were introduced to paintings by Paul Nash, LS Lowry, Gwen John and Graham Sutherland. This new exhibition celebrates the sixtieth anniversary of this tour, which introduced the people of Britain to Swindon’s remarkable art and established the reputation of the ‘Swindon Collection’.
This exhibition brings together the 44 works of art sent ‘on tour’ in 1959 and presents them alongside some of the most important acquisitions we have made in the decades since. The exhibition explores the history of the collection and the ambitions and challenges of touring so many pictures to so many places.
