Swindon Art Gallery is located in Swindon

Swindon

Swindon is a large town within the borough of Swindon and ceremonial county of Wiltshire, in South West England. It is midway between Bristol, west and Reading, east. London is east...

, Wiltshire

Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It contains the unitary authority of Swindon and covers...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. It includes a collection of 20th-century British art

British art

British art could refer to:* Art of the United Kingdom - post 1707* English art* Irish art* Scottish art* Welsh art...

, one of the best in the country outside London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

. The collection was established in 1944 by a local benefactor, H.J.P. Bomford, through a significant donation of artworks.

Artists in the collection include Ben Nicholson

Ben Nicholson

Benjamin Lauder "Ben" Nicholson, OM was a British painter of abstract compositions , landscape and still-life.-Background and Training:...

, Henry Moore

Henry Moore

Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA was an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art....

, Graham Sutherland

Graham Sutherland

Graham Vivien Sutherland OM was an English artist.-Early life:He was born in Streatham, attending Homefield Preparatory School, Sutton. He was then educated at Epsom College, Surrey before going up to Goldsmiths, University of London...

, L S Lowry, Paul Nash

Paul Nash

Paul Nash is the name of:* Paul Nash , British artist* Paul Nash , South African sprinter* Paul Nash , Jamaican Sportsperson of the Year 1969, Father of Brendan Nash...

, Steven Pippin

Steven Pippin

Steven Pippin is an English artist. Pippin works with converted or improvised photographic equipment and kinetic sculptures....

, Terry Frost

Terry Frost

Sir Terry Frost RA was an English artist noted for his abstracts....

, Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin

Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin CH, CBE is a British painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with abstraction.-Early life:...

, Gwen John

Gwen John

Gwendolen Mary John was a Welsh artist who worked in France for most of her career. She is noted for her still lifes and for her portraits, especially of anonymous female sitters...

, Augustus John

Augustus John

Augustus Edwin John OM, RA, was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a short time around 1910, he was an important exponent of Post-Impressionism in the United Kingdom....

, Maggi Hambling

Maggi Hambling

Maggi Hambling CBE is an English painter and sculptor. Perhaps her best known public works are a memorial to Oscar Wilde in central London and Scallop, a 4 metre high steel sculpture of two interlocking scallop shells on Aldeburgh beach dedicated to Benjamin Britten...

, Ivon Hitchens

Ivon Hitchens

Ivon Hitchens was an English painter who started exhibiting during the 1920s. He became part of the 'London Group' of artists and exhibited with them during the 1930s. His house was bombed in 1940 during World War II, at which point he moved to a caravan on a patch of woodland near Petworth in...

, Christopher le Brun

Christopher le Brun

Christopher Le Brun is known primarily as a painter. He is also a dedicated printmaker, for which he was elected to the Royal Academy in 1996 , coincidentally the year in which he made his first sculpture. He studied painting at the Slade School of Art and Chelsea School of Art...

, Lisa Milroy

Lisa Milroy

Lisa Milroy is a Canadian painter who lives and works in the UK. She is known for painting everyday items such as clothes, shoes and vases in the form of collections...

, David Leach

David Leach (potter)

David Andrew Leach was an English studio potter and the eldest son of Bernard Leach and Muriel Hoyle Leach, Bernard's first wife....

, Lucie Rie

Lucie Rie

Dame Lucie Rie, DBE was an Austrian-born British studio potter.-Early life:Lucie Rie was born as Lucie Gomperz in Vienna, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary the youngest child of Benjamin Gomperz, a Jewish medical doctor who was a consultant to Sigmund Freud. She had two brothers, Paul and Teddy...

 and Hans Coper

Hans Coper

Hans Coper , was an influential German-born British studio potter. His work is often coupled with that of Lucie Rie due to their close association, even though their best known work differs dramatically, with Rie's being more functional and traditional, while Coper's was much more abstract and...

. The media include paintings, photography and studio pottery.

Swindon Museum

Swindon Museum

Swindon Museum is located in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. The museum has displays of local archaeology, geology, and history. These present Swindon's geological Jurassic history, its association with the Roman Empire, and the town's social history....

 is located next to the gallery. Swindon Museum and Art Gallery is one of the venues for the Swindon Festival of Literature

Swindon Festival of Literature

Swindon Festival of Literature is an annual literature festival held in Swindon, Wiltshire, England.The 2010 Festival is due to last for two weeks, from 3–15 May 2010.- External links :*...

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External links

• Swindon Art Gallery - official site