Sunderland Art Gallery
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The Sunderland Art Gallery is an art gallery
Art gallery
An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection...

 based within the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens is a municipal museum in Sunderland, England. It is part of the Tyne and Wear Museums group, and is sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It contains the only known British example of a gliding reptile, the oldest known vertebrate capable of...

 centre, in Sunderland City Centre.

The collection of paintings includes works by the British artist, L.S. Lowry, many with local significance. For example, 'River Wear at Sunderland' (1961) and 'Girl in a Red Hat on a Promenade' (1972) - an enigmatic piece composed at Seaburn
Seaburn
Seaburn is a seaside resort and suburb of Sunderland, North East England. The village of Whitburn borders the area to the north. To the west and south-west is Fulwell and to the south the coastal resort of Roker....

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