From the Painter’s Soul at South Shields Museum & Art Gallery
From the gallery’s website:
The Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh said that ‘Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.’ Here we present a selection of some of the art works from the collection that demonstrate, through a variety of subjects and styles, something of this power and poetry of art. We have included some of the popular favourites, such as Harold C Harvey’s Blackberrying and John Wilson Carmichael’s Westoe Village, as well as some lesser-known works that have not been shown recently, or are new to display, such as Frank Thomas Carter’s The Head of the Lake (Derwentwater), and the sketchbook and book of Instructions on Sketching and Painting by James Miller Brown, who painted many of his works from a studio in South Shields.
When South Shields Museum first opened in 1876, there was only a small number of paintings in the collection. Since then, the number of paintings, drawings and prints has grown through purchases, gifts and bequests. Thomas Reed (1852-1933), a local collector, was a particularly generous benefactor and left a significant bequest in 1921, we’re delighted to announce a number of these works will feature in this exhibition.
More recently, the Museum has acquired paintings from the collection of the former Bede Gallery in Jarrow, as well as new works capturing the local coal mining and ship building / repair industries by renowned South Shields’ artist Bob Olley.