Join a special guided tour of the University of Hull Art Collection in its stunning new gallery and be shown round by the Director, John Bernasconi.  The new gallery is on the ground floor of the University’s Brynmor Jones Library on the Cottingham Road campus.  It was the final stage of a multi-million pound transformation of the Library and opened in 2015.  The gallery is much more spacious than the previous one in the basement of the Middleton Hall and allows much more of the Collection to be shown in much better viewing conditions.

The University Art Collection has been described by Fred Hohler (Chairman, Public Catalogue Foundation) as ‘a collection of breathtaking quality’.  It specialises in art in Britain 1890-1940 and features paintings, sculpture, drawings and prints. It includes works by Beardsley, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Sickert, Steer, Lucien Pissarro,  Augustus John,  Stanley Spencer,  Wyndham Lewis and Ben Nicholson as well as sculpture by Epstein,  Gill,  Gaudier-Brzeska and Henry Moore. Camden Town Group and Bloomsbury Group artists are particularly well represented.

John Bernasconi will describe the remarkable origins of the Collection and discuss its most important works and recent acquisitions, as well as answering any questions on the Collection or plans for 2017.