Where you can find some collections in Newport Museum and Art Gallery during the closure

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Where you can find some collections in Newport Museum and Art Gallery during the closure

Newport Museum and Art Gallery was founded in 1888 and now has a vast collection of items which you can access via the links below. Many items have been placed on People’s Collection Wales which Newport Museum and Art Gallery joined in 2011. 1,322 items have been uploaded and you can spend time ‘surfing’ these collections by following the links below.
https://www.peoplescollection.wales/users/1437
I have picked out a few that caught my attention but I could have included so many fascinating aspects of the collections.

1. J. H. Clark’s The Flora of Monmouthshire
J H Clark was born in Gloucester in 1818 and set up in business as a printer in Usk in 1834. In 1868 he produced 'Sketches of Monmouthshire', one of the many guides he wrote and printed, with an appendix which he later reprinted as a pamphlet entitled, 'The Flora of Monmouthshire'. This was the first attempt to produce a complete flora of the county. Click on the link below to be taken through his collection of pressed flowers.
https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/496830

2. There are 18 items by Falcon Hildred
Falcon Hildred was born in Grimsby in 1935 when it was the World's premier fishing town. From the very beginning he was fascinated by the sounds, shapes and smells of industry. He came to know other working towns - mill towns and mining towns - and he liked the way they were so open about what they did. The cranes and viaducts, terrace-houses and lines of washing, dialects and factory sirens, gave them integrity and identity, and a vitality which has now been lost. A wartime move to Coventry extended his interest, and it was here at the age of thirteen that he began his art training, which he completed at the Royal College of Art, where he received a medal for work of distinction. Although an industrial designer by profession, he has spent most of his life recording industrial archaeology, under the Theme title of Worktown. In 1993 he was made an honorary member of The Royal Society of Architects in Wales for "his consummate contribution to the recording and appreciation of the built environment.” He now lives and works in a mill overlooking the slate mining town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, in Gwynedd, North Wales.
https://www.peoplescollection.wales/collections/408202

3. 32 Items by James Flewitt Mullock
James Flewitt Mullock is Newport's most significant Victorian artist. Born in 1818, he witnessed the Chartist Uprising and experienced the unprecedented industrial and commercial growth of a town whose population increased tenfold in his own lifetime. Not only did he experience this phenomenon, he faithfully recorded many of the important events associated with it on canvas and in print
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The Art Collection of oil paintings can also be seen online at Art UK             https://artuk.org/visit/venues/newport-museum-and-art-gallery-6385 One of my favourites is the panting by Kevin Sinnott – Geometry Lesson Beach Five
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/geometry-lesson-beach-five-156316

Here is a picture of our Patron Michael Sheen with Oliver Blackmore in one of the storage areas of  Newport Museum and Art Gallery. They are standing next to Shani Rhys James's painting entitled 'Studio: Self Portrait' currently on display.


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