Work of the Month: Surrealist Collage by Olive Cook
The work of Olive Cook (1912 – 2002) features prominently in our exhibition Fry’s Popular Delights, opening this month at the Gallery. Olive grew up in Cambridge, and was educated at the Perse school and Newnham College. After graduating she worked at...
Work of the Month: Self portrait by Olga Lehmann
Self Portrait oil on canvas by Olga Lehmann. The feisty young artist boldly returning the viewer’s gaze is a young Olga Lehmann, probably at home in her Charlotte Street studio in Fitzrovia in the 1930s. The gallery has recently been able to purchase this...
Work of the Month: Spring Wedding by John Bolam
Spring Wedding Oil on Canvas by John Bolam The days are getting longer. Winter is coming to an end. The bare trees and long coats of the guests identify this as the season depicted by John Bolam in the painting newly donated to the Fry Art Gallery by his niece Frances...
Work of the Month: Wintry Outlook
A Snowy Day by Edward Bawden watercolour & gouache 1955 The weather warnings for snow and ice at the start of 2026 could equally apply to Great Bardfield in January 1955, at the start of what became known as ‘Britain’s big freeze’. Looking out...