For three weeks commencing Friday 27 March Marlborough will be hosting an exhibition featuring works by some of this country’s most notable British artists of the last Century. The exhibition at Grant Ford’s ‘The Little Gallery’ in The Parade will feature works by Patrick Heron, Elizabeth Frink, Bernard Leach, Sandra Blow and David Hockney, and many other influential artists of this period.
This exhibition charts the shifting artistic movements that defined the last century, beginning with Impressionism and Post Impressionism through works by Harold Harvey, John Duncan Fergusson and Richard Eurich, represented by an evocative work of a steam train passing through the Wiltshire Downs.
The radical spirit of London’s 1960s Avant Garde is also reflected in works by David Hockney and Patrick Procktor, artists whose distinctive styles helped reshape British contemporary art. A particular highlight of the exhibition is the inclusion of four works from the studio of Anthony Whishaw (b.1930), including the rare Interior with Musicians (1967), which was directly inspired by the artist encountering Pink Floyd rehearing next door to his studio in Notting Hill Gate for one of their first ‘underground’ gigs. A graduate of the Royal College of Art alongside Frank Auerbach, Bridget Riley and Joe Tilson, Whishaw has enjoyed a celebrated career spanning more than six decades, and the selected works offer a rare opportunity to see examples drawn directly from the artist’s studio.
“It’s a pleasure to be able to show such a fantastic selection of works in our gallery in Marlborough, as our exhibition programme continues to go from strength to strength. Many works form part of our collection at Winsor Birch, with others from long held private collections.” Charlie Minter, director of Winsor Birch.
The exhibition also features Elisabeth Frink’s Mirage II from 1967, a powerful bronze by one of the leading post-War sculptors and whose work has a strong connection to the region, with the Frink Collection housed at Dorset Museum & Art Gallery in Dorchester.
There will also be an Opening Reception on Thursday 26 March at 4pm and all are warmly invited to attend.
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