Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Norfolk

Download or read book Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Norfolk written by Andrew Ellis and published by Pub Catalogue Foundation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalog reveals the great breadth of paintings in public ownership in Norfolk. The single largest collection is that of Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery with some 2,300 works. Among these is an unrivalled holding of paintings by the Norwich School of Artists together with a fine collection of Dutch and Flemish masters. Modern painting is also well represented through the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts while smaller collections offer works by lesser known artists working in the locality. Over 2,250 paintings from 45 collections are reproduced in color, providing a significant visual record of the region's cultural identity. The Public Catalogue Foundation is a registered charity based in the National Gallery, London, that has been set up to record the nation's entire collection of oil paintings in public ownership and to make this accessible through a series of affordable catalogs. The catalogs are produced on a county-by-county basis. Catalogs published to date: Cambridgeshire: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Suffolk, East Sussex, Kent, London: The Slade and UCL, West Sussex and West Yorkshire: Leeds, North Yorkshire, Surrey and Norfolk .