Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in the Government Art Collection


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For just over a century, the British Government has collected works of art by mainly British artists from the 16th century to the present day. With over 13,000 works in a broad range of media, this unique collection is displayed in Government buildings in the UK and around the world. Bringing together all the oil paintings in the Collection for the first time, this catalogue provides an important insight into the key role the Government Art Collection plays in promoting British art and culture. This is the 19th catalogue in the Oil Paintings in Public Ownership series published by the Public Catalogue Foundation. Consisting of over 350 pages, the catalogue lists 2,499 works and show color photographs of almost every one together with some 40 page color reproductions. Trade Orders: Professional Discount Only




Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in the Imperial War Museum


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This catalogue reveals all the oil paintings from the Museum's various locations around the country 1,870 works in total. This includes a significant body of work by Connard, Knight, Lavery, the Nashes, Nevinson, Orpen and Weight.




Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Suffolk


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All the publicly owned oil paintings in Suffolk have been brought together in this comprehensive volume.




Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in London


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All the publicly owned oil paintings in the Slade School of Fine Arts and University College London have been brought together in this comprehensive volume.




Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Staffordshire


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This catalogue displays the great wealth of publicly owned oil paintings in the vast county of North Yorkshire. Over 2,700 paintings are reproduced in colour from 41 collections.




Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Hampshire


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"This catalogue reveals all the oil paintings in public collections in the City of Southhampton, part of the ceremonial county of Hampshire, together with those from the Isle of Wight."--Dust Jacket.




Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Kent


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All the publicly owned oil paintings in Kent have been brought together in this comprehensive volume.




Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Norfolk


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This catalogue reveals the great breadth of paintings in public ownership in Norfolk. The single largest collection is that of Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery with some 2,300 works.




Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Surrey


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This Surrey volume - the ninth in the Oil Paintings in Public Ownership series - brings together some 1,550 paintings from 58 collections in the county. Among these are two galleries dedicated to the work of single artists, George Frederick Watts and Sidney H. Sime. There is also the Royal Holloway College collection which includes an important holding of Victorian paintings including works by Frith, Landseer and Millais. Numerous municipal collections held in museums, council buildings and libraries are also shown. The Public Catalogue Foundation is a registered charity based in the National Gallery, London, that has been set up to record the nation's entire collection of oil paintings in public ownership and to make this accessible through a series of affordable catalogs. The catalogs are produced on a county-by-county basis. Catalogs published to date: Cambridgeshire: The Fitzwilliam Museum, East Sussex, Kent, London: The Slade and UCL, North Yorkshire, Suffolk, Surrey, West Sussex and West Yorkshire: Leeds .