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Alice Edith Rumph (1878–1978) was a painter of watercolors and pastels, an etcher, and an art teacher. Rumph co-founded the Birmingham Art Club, which established the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama. [1] She served as the club's founding vice president and later as its president. [2]
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BM&AG) is a museum and art gallery in Birmingham, England. It has a collection of international importance covering fine art , ceramics , metalwork , jewellery , natural history , archaeology , ethnography , local history and industrial history .
The Birmingham Museum of Art is owned by the City of Birmingham and encompasses 3.9 acres (16,000 m 2) in the city's cultural district. Erected in 1959, the present building was designed by architects Warren, Knight & Davis , and a major renovation and expansion by Edward Larrabee Barnes of New York was completed in 1993.
The genesis of the Birmingham Arts Laboratory can be traced to a meeting on 8 September 1968, of five figures (Mark Williams, Fred Smith, Dave Cassidy, Tony Jones and Bob Sheldon) from the Midlands Arts Centre, who had been promoting avant garde music performances at the centre's outdoor auditorium and had been involved in Mike Leigh's experiments in improvised theatre, but had become ...
Joseph Edward Southall RWS NEAC RBSA (23 August 1861 – 6 November 1944) was an English painter associated with the Arts and Crafts movement.. A leading figure in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century revival of painting in tempera, Southall was the leader of the Birmingham Group of Artist-Craftsmen—one of the last outposts of Romanticism in the visual arts, and an important link ...
"The Birth-place of Birmingham Art" - Joseph Barber's studio in Edmund Street, Birmingham Birmingham's tradition in applied arts such as jewellery and metalwork predates the Industrial Revolution, [2] but organised activity in the fine arts of drawing, painting and printmaking began only with the town's huge growth in size and wealth in the 18th century, [3] after the growing realisation of ...
The original New Street home of the RBSA, illustrated in 1830 The exhibition room in 1829. The RBSA was established as the Birmingham Society of Artists in 1821, though it can trace its origins back further to the life drawing academy opened by Samuel Lines, Moses Haughton, Vincent Barber and Charles Barber in Peck Lane (now the site of New Street Station) in 1809. [3]
Birmingham Art Club (1908), Birmingham, Alabama [4] Dr. Arthur M. Brown Residence (1908), 319-4th Terrace, Birmingham, Alabama; demolished [4]