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Curations on Art UK promoting artworks cared for by museums and galleries across the UK

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David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · Jul 7

The wood engraving renaissance is a story now told more effectively on Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social thanks to collections like Aberdeen @abdnartmuseums.bsky.social now updating Art UK using the Museum Data Service. This Curation explores 15 leading women engravers artuk.org/discover/cur...

20th Century spotlight: 15 Women artists associated with the renaissance of wood engraving | Art UK

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David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · Jun 25

Evocative and poignant end of the Second World War images by photographer Leonard McCombe, born in St Erin, at the House of Manannan in Peel on the Isle of Man, until 5 October

David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · Jun 18

A week highlighting the works on paper collection at Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
@abdnartmuseums.bsky.social now also on Art UK
@artukdotorg.bsky.social concludes with how preparatory drawings relate to Robert Sivell's painted panels for Aberdeen University artuk.org/discover/cur...

20th Century Spotlight: Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums: Robert Sivell and Aberdeen University Panel paintings and preparatory drawings | Art UK

Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · Jun 17

Angus Neil was a lifelong friend of Joan Eardley. His work includes a significant group of pastels from Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums @abdnartmuseums.bsky.social - the first collection to share its entire works on paper holdings with @artukdotorg.bsky.social artuk.org/discover/cur...

20th Century spotlight: Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums: Pastels by Angus Neil | Art UK

Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · Jun 13

Studies James Cowie realised relating to several major paintings are a particular highlight from their works on paper that Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums @abdnartmuseums.bsky.social now have uploaded on Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social using the Museum Data Service artuk.org/discover/cur...

20th Century spotlight: Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums: James Cowie's preparatory drawings for group portraits | Art UK

Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · Jun 12

The astonishing James McBey Archive on Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums @abdnartmuseums.bsky.social - now also on Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social has many fascinating entry points; for me his prints of Venice are absolutely extraordinary, as here artuk.org/discover/cur...

20th Century spotlight: Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums: James McBey in Venice | Art UK

Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · Jun 11

Yesterday, prints, today wonderful 20th drawings and watercolours from ‪Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums @abdnartmuseums.bsky.social now on Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social The 1st collection to update their entire art collection using the Museum Data Service - bravo! artuk.org/discover/cur...
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20th Century spotlight: Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums: Drawings and watercolours | Art UK

Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · Jun 10

‪Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums @abdnartmuseums.bsky.social‬ were the first collection to upload their entire works on paper collection to @artukdotorg.bsky.social through the Museum Data Service 😃. The first of series of Curations celebrating their amazing collection artuk.org/discover/cur...

20th Century Spotlight: Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums: Prints | Art UK

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David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · Jun 6

All 18 of the Curations on @artukdotorg.bsky.social bringing together 1,200 of the 6,000 artworks from within the War Artists' Advisory Commitee scheme appear on @artukdotorg.bsky.social within the Curations area of the Art UK website artuk.org/discover/cur...

Art UK | Discover Curations

Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · Jun 6

Doris Zinkeisen concludes this Curation on @artukdotorg.bsky.social with her wartime artworks realised whilst she served as a nurse. These Curations have been brought together from artworks in UK public art collections to highlight the War Artists' Advisory Committee scheme artuk.org/discover/cur...

War Artists' Advisory Committee: Alfred Thomson to Doris Zinkeisen | Art UK

Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · Jun 6

Stanley Spencer's seven Shipbuilding on the Clyde tripytchs form the centrepiece of this Curation on @artukdotorg.bsky.social marking the work of the War Artists' Advisory Committee, brought together to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War artuk.org/discover/cur...

War Artists' Advisory Committee: Peter Scott to Graham Sutherland | Art UK

Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · Jun 6

The work of Ravilious is well-known, but the radar installations painted by William Thomas Rawlinson far less so. Highlights from the 14th part of the War Artists' Advisory Committee set of Curations on @artukdotorg.bsky.social artuk.org/discover/cur...

War Artists' Advisory Committee: Eric Ravilious to Walter Westley Russell | Art UK

Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · Jun 4

Haunting paintings by John Piper of a wartime control centre and the destroyed Coventry Cathedral feature in this latest Curation on @artukdotorg.bsky.social focussing on the artists who realised for the War Artists' Advisory Committee during the Second World War artuk.org/discover/cur...

Art UK | Discover Curations

Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · Jun 2

Stanley Spencer's remarkable 'Shipbuilding on the Clyde' series feature in the latest Curation on @artukdotorg.bsky.social focussed on the works acquired by the War Artists' Advisory Committee, marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe artuk.org/discover/cur...

War Artists' Advisory Committee: Peter Scott to Graham Sutherland | Art UK

Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · May 30

Paul Nash's 'Totes Meer' and Henry Moore's tube shelters feature in the latest Curation on @artukdotorg.bsky.social focussed on the War Artists' Advisory Committee to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. All works now in UK public art collections. artuk.org/discover/cur...

War Artists' Advisory Committee: Frances Macdonald to Roy Nockolds | Art UK

Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · May 29

In late May 1941 'Britain at War' opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, drawn in part from artworks acquired by the War Artists' Advisory Committee. Some of the exhibits, now in public UK art collections, are presented in this Curation on @artukdotorg.bsky.social artuk.org/discover/cur...

Artists and wartime places: the 1941 'Britain at War' exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York | Art UK

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David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · May 27

Laura Knight and Eric Kennington, two stand-out wartime artists featured in the latest of the series of Curations on @artukdotorg.bsky.social marking the end of the Second World War in Europe with an exploration of the work of the War Artists' Advisory Committee artuk.org/discover/cur...

War Artists' Advisory Committee: F. Ernest Jackson to Neville Stephen Lytton | Art UK

Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · May 22

Bernard Hailstone's remarkable portraits of everyday people in their line of duty are the focus in the latest Curation on @artukdotorg.bsky.social on the work of the War Artists' Advisory Committee to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe artuk.org/discover/cur...

War Artists' Advisory Committee: Bernard Hailstone | Art UK

Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · May 21

Ethel Gabain amongst a number of overlooked women war artists featured in the latest Curation on @artukdotorg.bsky.social focussing on the War Artists' Advisory Committee artworks produced during the Second World War, and now in many museums across the UK artuk.org/discover/cur...

War Artists' Advisory Committee: Ethel Gabain to Philip Hulton | Art UK

Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · May 20

Panaromic views of Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain by Richard Eurich form part of the latest Curation on @artukdotorg.bsky.social in a series on the War Artists' Advisory Committee marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe artuk.org/discover/cur...

War Artists' Advisory Committee: Ian Eadie to Barnett Freedman | Art UK

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David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · May 19

Evelyn Dunbar's paintings feature significantly in the next in a series of Curations on @artukdotorg.bsky.social exploring the work of the War Artists's Advisory Committee. A series of posts marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe artuk.org/discover/cur...

War Artists' Advisory Committee: Albert Daniels to Charles Dyson-Smith | Art UK

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David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · May 15

Leslie Cole's wartime paintings are some of the most powerful acquired by the War Artists' Advisory Committee. They are next in a series of Curations on @artukdotorg.bsky.social exploring this scheme to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe artuk.org/discover/cur...

War Artists' Advisory Committee: Leslie Cole | Art UK

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David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · May 14

Henry Marvell Carr painted mainly portraits for the War Artists' Advisory Committee, but also war at home and in Africa. He is the focus of this Curation on @artukdotorg.bsky.social in the latest of a series marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War artuk.org/discover/cur...

War Artists' Advisory Committee: Henry Marvell Carr | Art UK

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David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · May 13

The War Artists' Advisory Committee commissioning programme benefitted art collections across the UK after the war. The latest Curation in the series on @artukdotorg.bsky.social marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe is presented here artuk.org/discover/cur...

War Artists' Advisory Committee: Patrick Carpenter to Charles Cundall | Art UK

Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · May 12

Paintings by Stephen Bone from Normandy to Norway are the focus of the third part of the series marking the end of the Second World War in Europe from the War Artists' Advisory Committee scheme. It has been created using the Curations tool on @artukdotorg.bsky.social artuk.org/discover/cur...

War Artists' Advisory Committee: Stephen Bone: Normandy and Norway | Art UK

Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.