This virtual exhibition is curated by the Friends of Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, and shines a spotlight on some of the most significant artists represented in Swindon’s collection of modern British art. Selected artworks span the Twentieth Century and include work from defining groups and movements, such as the Bloomsbury Group, the St Ives School and the School of London. ‘Big Hitters’ also showcases pieces by important contemporary painters Christopher le Brun, Eileen Cooper and Maggi Hambling, as well as treasured paintings in the collection by Gillian Ayres, David Bomberg, L.S. Lowry and many more.
1933 (composition in black and white) 1933
Ben Nicholson (1894–1982)
Oil & gesso on board
H 112 x W 53 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Play Dead II 1995–1997
Eileen Cooper (b.1953)
Oil on canvas
H 68.5 x W 91.5 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Winter in Pendlebury, Manchester 1943
Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887–1976)
Oil on panel
H 42.2 x W 22.8 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Seated Model c.1915–1916
Duncan Grant (1885–1978)
Oil on board
H 57.5 x W 40 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Spring in Eden 1925
Ivon Hitchens (1893–1979)
Oil on canvas
H 49 x W 59.5 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
The Port of Bristol 1938
Paul Ayshford Methuen (1886–1974)
Oil on canvas
H 64.3 x W 102 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Hyperion 1982
Christopher Le Brun (b.1951)
Oil on canvas
H 249 x W 214 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Tower Bridge, London: A War-Time Nocturne
Claude Francis Barry (1883–1970)
Oil on canvas
H 73 x W 94.5 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Self Portrait with Juliet 1979
John Bellany (1942–2013)
Oil on canvas
H 165 x W 106.7 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Nude with Poppies 1916
Vanessa Bell (1879–1961)
Oil on canvas
H 23.4 x W 42.4 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Florestan 1986
Gillian Ayres (1930–2018)
Oil on canvas
H 137.5 x W 138.5 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Girl Selling Flowers 1946
Desmond Morris (b.1928)
Oil on board
H 73 x W 88 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Pistyll Maes-Glasau 1940
John Piper (1903–1992)
Chalk, charcoal & gouache on paper
H 50.2 x W 37.5 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Descent of the Bull's Head 1985
Maggi Hambling (b.1945)
Oil on cotton duck
H 160 x W 122.5 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Girl with a Fig Leaf 1947
Lucian Freud (1922–2011)
Etching on paper
H 30 x W 24 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Alfred Wallis (1855–1942)
Oil & pencil on cardboard
H 26.5 x W 32.5 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
The Printer c.1915
Laura Sylvia Gosse (1881–1968)
Oil on canvas
H 100 x W 74.8 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
The Thames 1962
Mary Fedden (1915–2012)
Oil on canvas
H 49.3 x W 59.5 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Birling Gap 1981–1983
Jeffery Camp (b.1923)
Oil on board
H 72 x W 122 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Grey, Red and Black Verticals 1962
Terry Frost (1915–2003)
Oil on canvas
H 101 x W 126.5 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
The South East Corner, Jerusalem 1926
David Bomberg (1890–1957)
Oil on board
H 55.5 x W 73.2 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
The Sibyl 1964
Cecil Collins (1908–1989)
Oil & acrylic on board
H 75 x W 90 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (1889–1946)
Oil on canvas
H 49.3 x W 59.5 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Roman Window 1950
Michael Ayrton (1921–1975)
Oil on canvas
H 125.5 x W 75 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Gramophone 1964–1966
Howard Hodgkin (1932–2017)
Oil on canvas
H 71.5 x W 91.5 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Edge of the Wood c.1944
Paul Nash (1889–1946)
Pencil & watercolour on buff paper
H 38.7 x W 57.2 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Still Life with Boats, St Ives, Cornwall 1930
Christopher Wood (1901–1930)
Oil on panel
H 22 x W 53.5 cm
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Bright Intervals 1928
Edward Alexander Wadsworth (1889–1949)
Tempera on canvas laid on panel
H 63 x W 88 cm
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Lucian Freud (1922–2011) -
Howard Hodgkin (1932–2017) -
Christopher Wood (1901–1930) -
Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) -
Ben Nicholson (1894–1982) -
Laura Sylvia Gosse (1881–1968) -
John Bellany (1942–2013) -
Terry Frost (1915–2003) -
Claude Francis Barry (1883–1970) -
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