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Leeds Art Gallery in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is a gallery, part of the Leeds Museums & Galleries group, whose collection of 20th-century British Art was designated by the British government in 1997 as a collection "of national importance". [2] Its collection also includes 19th-century and earlier art works.
Leeds Patronising the Arts and Encouraging the Sciences: Leeds Town Hall: 1858: John Thomas: Sculpture relief: Stone: Grade I [1] [7] More images: Lions Leeds Town Hall: 1867: William Day Keyworth, Jnr. 4 statues: Portland stone: Grade I [8] [9] More images: Leeds Rifles War Memorial: Outside Leeds Minster, Kirkgate: 1921: Edwin Lutyens: Cross ...
The Leeds Arts Club was founded in 1903 by the Leeds primary school teacher Alfred Orage and Holbrook Jackson, a lace merchant and freelance journalist, and was one of the most advanced centres for modernist thinking, radical thought and experimental art in Britain in the pre-First World War period. [1]
These art venues were added to in 1969, with the gift of Lotherton Hall to the people of Leeds. In 1996 the two services combined to form Leeds Museums & Galleries. [ 11 ] On 1 April the lease to Thwaite Mills, which is owned by the Canal and Rivers Trust, was terminated by the service.
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Ribbons (2024) is an outdoor sculpture in Leeds, England, by Pippa Hale, which was unveiled on 12 October 2024. [1] Shaped like entwined ribbons, this corten steel sculpture celebrates and commemorates the achievements of women in Leeds, by featuring the names of 383 women nominated by the public.
Maurice de Sausmarez (20 October 1915 – 28 October 1969) was an artist, writer and art educator. He played an important role in the establishment of the University of Leeds Department of Fine Art [1] and was Principal of the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting from 1962-1969. [2]
The Leeds Art Fund (LAF), formerly the Leeds Art Collections Fund (LACF) is one of Britain's oldest supporting art gallery "friends" organisations.It was founded in Leeds on 11 November 1912 by Frank Rutter, who was the newly appointed curator of Leeds Art Gallery (then Leeds City Art Gallery) at the time, with the support of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds, Michael Sadler.