Jug by Charlotte Bawden

Jug by Charlotte Bawden

Work of the month

Artist: Charlotte Bawden Lived:1902 -1970 Medium: Ceramic Catalogue number: 3243 Born Charlotte Epton, she was a contemporary of Edward Bawden, her future husband, at the Royal College of Art where she studied painting. But her real inclination was for pottery,...
Bird and Sun

Bird and Sun

Work of the month

Artist: Michael Rothenstein CBE RA Lived: 1908 – 1993 Medium: Linocut, 1956 – 1957 Catalogue number: 2527 Image Height/Width: 392 x 577mm Purchased from The Nottingham Education Trust Michael Rothenstein, son of Sir William Rothenstein, was viewed as the...
Adam with Pram

Adam with Pram

Work of the month

Artist: Kenneth Rowntree Lived: 1915 – 1997 Medium: Watercolour Catalogue no.: 755 Image Height/Width: 185 x 335mm Purchased from Diana Rowntree Rowntree was born in Yorkshire to a Quaker family. He trained as an artist under Barnett Freedman and eventually...
Masked Figures with Horse

Masked Figures with Horse

Work of the month

Artist: Robert Colquhoun Lived: 1914 – 1962 Medium: Lithograph Catalogue number: 2953 Image Height/Width: Purchased with assistance from the National Heritage Lottery Fund Collecting Cultures scheme This lithograph is one of the first works by Robert Colquhoun,...
Burning Fields

Burning Fields

Work of the month

Name: Keith Vaughan Lived: 1912 – 1977 Qualifications: Title: Burning Fields Catalogue number: 2937 Image Height/Width: 480 x 380mm Purchased with grant aid from the Art Fund, the Victoria & Albert Museum Purchase Fund and the National Heritage Lottery Fund...
Silver Birch

Silver Birch

Work of the month

Name: John Aldridge RA Lived: 1905 – 1983 Medium: Oil Catalogue number: 60 Image Height/Width: 622 x 496mm Presented by the executors of the Aldridge estate  John Aldridge loved painting the landscape and particularly his garden and the environment around his...