Victorian Art
Local industrialists Philip Horsman and Sidney Cartwright, the founders of Wolverhampton Art Gallery, donated their personal collections of Victorian art. Gifts and purchases have enlarged the collection, which includes paintings by the Cranbrook colony, Edwin Landseer, Francis Danby, Elizabeth Armstrong Forbes, John Faed and William Frederick Yeames.
A selection of Victorian paintings is on show in Wolverhampton Art Gallery’s Victorian Room.
20th and 21st Century Art
Our 20th and 21st Century art collections reflect important trends in British painting and sculpture from the first half of the twentieth century, as well as more recent developments. The collections show that art can be a powerful voice in today’s society. They address issues of war, race, gender, civil liberties and national identity.
Of particular interest are:
- Our Northern Ireland collection which addresses the modern phase of the conflict in Northern Ireland. It is the only one of its kind in the UK.
- Our collection of Pop Art from the 1960s and 1970s which is one of the most well known in Britain outside London’s Tate Gallery. It includes artwork from Britain and America.
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