Art Guide City Art Gallery, Leeds

City Art Gallery, Leeds

The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3AA (map)
Telephone: 0113 247 8248
Web site: www.leeds.gov.uk /artgallery
See also: Yorkshire & Humberside

Background information
Founded in 1888. Has a collection of Victorian paintings, but is especially known for collection of 20th century paintings and sculpture of the British School (housed in the adjacent Henry Moore Institute).

Famous for Camden Town paintings, also pre and post 1950 British Art. Extensive 20th century sculpture. Comprehensive collection of prints 1500-1990s and early English watercolours.

General information
Facilities: Cafe, Shop, Disabled Access, Lectures, Craft Shop
Admission: Mon - Sat: 10am - 5pm, Sunday: 1pm - 5pm, Wednesday 10am - 8pm ; Free entrance
How to find us: Take M1 to Leeds. Art Gallery in City Centre. . Leeds

Particularly interesting for Drawings and Watercolours Paintings Prints Sculpture

Listed under Modern Art Museums with Web Sites

Highlights of the Collection

Atkinson Grimshaw, John The Old Mill

Canova, Antonio The 'Hope' Venus

Cotman, John Sell Sydney Kitson collection of paintings by John Sell Cotman

Courbet, Jean-Désiré-Gustave Les Demoiselles de Village

Epstein, Sir Jacob Maternity

Kossoff, Leon Fidelma No. 1

Moore, Henry Reclining Figure 1929

Nash, Paul The Shore

O'Neill, George Bernard Public Opinion, 1863

Spencer R.A., Sir Stanley Hilda, Unity and Dolls

Turner, Joseph Mallord William Farnley Hall Book of Birds

Wadsworth, Edward Requiescat

Other artists represented in the Collection

Bacon, Francis

Brangwyn, Sir Frank

Clausen, Sir George

Cotman, John Sell

Cragg, Tony

Gilbert, Alfred

Hepworth, Barbara

Kramer, Jacob

Long, Richard

Moore, Henry

Riley, Bridget

Rodin, Auguste

Sickert, Walter Richard

Wyndham Lewis, Percy

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