Mercer Art Gallery, Harrog
The Mercer Art Gallery is home to Harrogate district's fine art collection which consists of some 2000 works of art, mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection includes works by William Powell Frith, Atkinson Grimshaw, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Dame Laura Knight, Alan Davie and many more. The collection is not on permanent display.
The gallery has two spaces, the Main Gallery and the smaller North Gallery. The changing exhibition programme for both galleries ranges from national touring exhibitions of painting, photography, sculpture and crafts to exhibitions from the permanent collections to displays by local artists.
MAIN GALLERY
Your Paintings - Works from the Harrogate Fine Art Collection
14 January 2012 - 10 June 2012
A chance to see some of Harrogate's best loved works of art, plus new acquisitions from the last five years, including works by Harrogate's great Victorian artist William Powell Frith.
Many of the works on show are part of the BBC Your Paintings project.
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NORTH GALLERY
Extraordinary Moves: Photographs by Paul Floyd Blake
imove is primarily funded by Legacy Trust UK, an independent charity set up to create a cultural and sporting legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
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Blockbuster shows
Harrogate’s Mercer Art Gallery has developed a reputation for putting on major shows by some of the most successful British artists of the nineteenth century.
John Atkinson Grimshaw: Painter of Moonlight (2011)
Found out what you missed in the first show of the Leeds-based Victorian artist in over 30 years.
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William Powell Frith: Painting the Victorian Age (2007)
You can still find out a bit about Harrogate's most famous artist and see some images of his paintings.
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