The
Hatton Gallery is Newcastle University's
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in
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,
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, and is a part of the
Great North MuseumThe Great North Museum is a visitor attraction in Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England, UK. It features two venues: the Great North Museum: Hancock and the Hatton Gallery...
.
The Hatton Gallery was founded in 1925, by the King Edward VII School of Art, Armstrong College,
Durham UniversityDurham University is a university in Durham, England. It was founded as the University of Durham by Act of Parliament in 1832 and granted a Royal Charter in 1837...
(Newcastle University's Department of Fine Art), in honour of Richard George Hatton, a professor at the School of Art.
In 1997 the University authorities voted to close down the gallery, but a widespread public campaign against the closure, leading to a £250,000 donation by Dame
Catherine CooksonDame Catherine Cookson, DBE was an English author. She became the United Kingdom's most widely read novelist, while remaining a relatively low-profile figure in the world of celebrity writers...
, ensured the survival of the gallery.
As part of the
Great North MuseumThe Great North Museum is a visitor attraction in Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England, UK. It features two venues: the Great North Museum: Hancock and the Hatton Gallery...
project, the gallery will be given more resources, complimenting the Great North Museum: Hancock.
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The
Hatton Gallery is Newcastle University's
art exhibition galleryAn art gallery or art museum is a space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museum can be public or private but what distinguishes a Museum is the ownership of a collection. Paintings are the most commonly displayed art objects; however, sculpture, photographs, illustrations,...
in
Newcastle upon TyneNewcastle upon Tyne is a city and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England...
,
EnglandEngland 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 and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, and is a part of the
Great North MuseumThe Great North Museum is a visitor attraction in Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England, UK. It features two venues: the Great North Museum: Hancock and the Hatton Gallery...
.
History
The Hatton Gallery was founded in 1925, by the King Edward VII School of Art, Armstrong College,
Durham UniversityDurham University is a university in Durham, England. It was founded as the University of Durham by Act of Parliament in 1832 and granted a Royal Charter in 1837...
(Newcastle University's Department of Fine Art), in honour of Richard George Hatton, a professor at the School of Art.
In 1997 the University authorities voted to close down the gallery, but a widespread public campaign against the closure, leading to a £250,000 donation by Dame
Catherine CooksonDame Catherine Cookson, DBE was an English author. She became the United Kingdom's most widely read novelist, while remaining a relatively low-profile figure in the world of celebrity writers...
, ensured the survival of the gallery.
As part of the
Great North MuseumThe Great North Museum is a visitor attraction in Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England, UK. It features two venues: the Great North Museum: Hancock and the Hatton Gallery...
project, the gallery will be given more resources, complimenting the Great North Museum: Hancock. Unlike the university's other collections, the Hatton Gallery will not be transferred into the Hancock, but be staying put in the Fine Art Building.
Exhibitions
The permanent collection comprises over 3,500 works, some dating back to the 14th century. These works of art include paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings. It houses the
Merzbarn - the only surviving Merz construction by
Kurt SchwittersKurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography and what came to be known as...
- as well as works by
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon was an Irish-born British figurative painter. His artwork is known for its bold, austere, homoerotic and often violent or nightmarish imagery, which typically shows room-bound masculine figures isolated in glass or steel geometrical cages set against flat, nondescript backgrounds...
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Victor PasmoreEdwin John Victor Pasmore was a British artist and architect. He pioneered the development of abstract art in Britain in the 1940s and 1950s....
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William RobertsWilliam Roberts was an English painter and war artist.- Biography :The son of a carpenter, Roberts was born in Hackney, London. In 1909 he took up an apprenticeship with the advertising firm of Sir Joseph Causton Ltd, intending to become a poster designer, and he attended evening classes at St...
and
Paolo di GiovanniPaolo di Giovanni Fei was a painter of the Sienese school.He came to Siena from San Quirico, Castelvecchio, held public positions in Siena from 1369 and was first mentioned in the Sienese register of painters in 1389. His earliest signed and dated work is of 1381...
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External links
- Hatton Gallery at Tyne and Wear Museums
Tyne and Wear Museums is a regional group of United Kingdom national museums located across the Tyne and Wear area of north-east England.- Museums :...