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Visit to Abbot Hall and Blackwell

Posted on Thursday 12th April 2012 Visit to Abbot Hall and Blackwell

On 29 March 25 LAF members plus Leeds Art Gallery curator, Ted Wilkins, travelled to Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal to view the exhibition Turner and his Contemporaries: The Hickman Bacon Watercolour Collection. The pictures had been acquired by Sir Hickman Bacon more than 100 years ago, and included some rarely-seen examples by Turner, Girtin and Cotman.

Preview evening

Posted on Monday 2nd April 2012 Preview evening

Anticipation mixed with excitement when over 300 invitees - far more than expected - turned up at Leeds Art Gallery on 22 March for the opening of ART IN OUR TIME, a unique exhibition which showcases 80 works (from over 400) which the Fund has purchased outright, or made valid contributions to, on behalf of the City over the last 100 years.