WOLVERHAMPTON ART GALLERY
Wolverhampton Art Gallery in Lichfield Street, Wolverhampton, West Midlands opened in May 1884. The building was funded and constructed by local contractor Philip Horsman (c1824-14 December 1890) from designs by Birmingham architect Julius Alfred Chatwin (24 April 1830-6 June 1907) and built on land provided by the Council, the building was refurbished, partly modernised, and extended to create additional exhibiting spaces in 2006-2007. In the 1990s, Wolverhampton acquired the art and local history collections of neighbouring Bilston Museum and Art Gallery which included many works by Edwin Butler Bayliss (7 January 1874-15 April 1950) known for his depictions of the Black Country industrial landscape. The gallery has changing exhibitions and a permanent gallery featuring work by English landscape and portrait artist Thomas Gainsborough with permanent displays dedicated to key periods in history, such as the Georgian and Victorian rooms, as well as the Pop Art gallery which, with its changing programme of artists, has exhibited the likes of Andy Warhol (6 August 1928-22 February 1987), Peter Blake (25 June 1932-), Roy Fox Lichtenstein (27 October 1923-29 September 1997) and David Hockney (9 July 1937-11 June 2026). Suffolk artists who exhibited at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery include Reginald St Clair Marston and Liz Waugh Mcmanus.
Website: https://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk
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