Opened in 1878 and named Atkinson Art Gallery following a donation of £6,000 in 1875 by William Atkinson, a cotton manufacturer from Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, who frequently visited Southport. It expanded by incorporating an adjacent bank in the 1920s. It holds excellent representative examples of artworks by major figures in Modern British Art, from those associated with the Camden Town Group and Scottish Colourists to local figures of national importance such as Philip Connard. Developed in association with Grant Waters, Art Detective Group Leader: South East England, East England and the Midlands.
Philip Connard (1875–1958)
Oil on canvas
H 30.4 x W 40.8 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Coelus 1976–1977
Gillian Ayres (1930–2018)
Oil on canvas
H 269.2 x W 152.4 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
The Vineyard 1942 or before
Vanessa Bell (1879–1961)
Oil on board
H 47 x W 55.5 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Wither Goest Thou? 1986
John Bellany (1942–2013)
Oil on canvas
H 153 x W 121.9 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Gloucester Gate, Regent's Park, London
Adrian Berg (1929–2011)
Acrylic on canvas
H 178 x W 178 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
John Bowes (1899–1974)
Oil on canvas
H 71 x W 91.5 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Cinerarias 1922
Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956)
Oil on canvas
H 104.1 x W 114.9 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Self Portrait with an Easel and an Agonised Expression
John Randall Bratby (1928–1992)
Oil on canvas
H 121.9 x W 91.4 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1890–1978)
Oil on panel
H 62 x W 52 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
John Alfred Arnesby Brown (1866–1955)
Oil on canvas
H 76.5 x W 91.5 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Robert Buhler (1916–1989)
Oil on hardboard
H 60 x W 70 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
The Summer Isles 1935
David Young Cameron (1865–1945)
Oil on canvas
H 102 x W 127 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Maurice Cockrill (1936–2013)
Acrylic on canvas
H 305 x W 366 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
The Market Place, Tangiers, Morocco
Philip Connard (1875–1958)
Oil on canvas
H 49.5 x W 61 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Frank Dobson (1886–1963)
Oil on canvas
H 40.5 x W 35.5 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Ronald Ossory Dunlop (1894–1973)
Oil on canvas
H 76.5 x W 64 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Quayside, Dorset 1937
Richard Ernst Eurich (1903–1992)
Oil on canvas
H 51 x W 75 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
John Duncan Fergusson (1874–1961)
Oil on canvas
H 34.2 x W 29.2 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Auxerre, France 1925
Roger Eliot Fry (1866–1934)
Oil on canvas
H 80 x W 63 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Charles Ginner (1878–1952)
Oil on canvas
H 51 x W 43 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn (1870–1951)
Oil on canvas
H 56 x W 71 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Laura Sylvia Gosse (1881–1968)
Oil on canvas
H 76.4 x W 64 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Theobald Butler Gould (d.1918)
Oil on canvas
H 50.8 x W 60.9 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Nude Study 1935
Duncan Grant (1885–1978)
Oil on board
H 72.5 x W 88 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Hugh Gresty (1899–1958)
Oil on canvas
H 73.5 x W 87.5 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Winter Sunshine 1932
Karl Hagedorn (1889–1969)
Oil on canvas
H 61 x W 51 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Blackberries 1922
Harold Charles Harvey (1874–1941)
Oil on canvas
H 69.2 x W 90.8 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Taos Woodpile 1959
David Holt (1928–2014)
Oil on board
H 92.1 x W 120.6 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
The Hull of the Old 'Implacable'
Eric Hesketh Hubbard (1892–1957)
Oil on canvas
H 180.3 x W 134.6 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Augustus Edwin John (1878–1961)
Oil on wood
H 45.1 x W 31.7 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
The Seine, France, Early Evening 1926
Percy Hague Jowett (1882–1955)
Oil on canvas
H 51 x W 61 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Spanish Girl 1914
Gerald Festus Kelly (1879–1972)
Oil on canvas
H 96.5 x W 75 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Accommodation, Bootle, Merseyside 1974
Harry Kingsley (1914–1998)
Oil on board
H 50 x W 75 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Ethel Bartlett (1896–1978) exhibited 1926
Laura Knight (1877–1970)
Oil on canvas
H 76.7 x W 64.1 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
The Flame c.1917
Jacob Kramer (1892–1962)
Oil on canvas
H 75 x W 62 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Percy Lancaster (1878–1950)
Etching on paper
H 28.5 x W 38 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Edward Le Bas (1904–1966)
Oil on canvas
H 44.4 x W 59.7 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Derwent Lees (1884–1931)
Oil on wood
H 50.8 x W 39.3 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Neville Lewis (1895–1972)
Oil on board
H 40.5 x W 29.3 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Ian Grant c.1935
Raymond Lintott (1893–1949)
Oil on canvas
H 91.4 x W 71.1 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Street Scene 1935
Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887–1976)
Oil on canvas
H 41.9 x W 52.1 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Cap Brun, France 1929
Frank McEwen (1907–1994)
Oil on canvas
H 46.3 x W 38.6 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Paul Ayshford Methuen (1886–1974)
Oil on canvas
H 60.9 x W 32.3 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Philip Naviasky (1894–1983)
Oil on canvas
H 48.9 x W 38.1 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Limehouse 1913
Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (1889–1946)
Oil on canvas
H 91.4 x W 60.9 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Charles Oppenheimer (1875–1961)
Oil on canvas
H 63.4 x W 76 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
An Eastern Gown 1906
William Orpen (1878–1931)
Oil on canvas
H 89 x W 73.5 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
John Anthony Park (1880–1962)
Oil on canvas
H 61 x W 76 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Meteorite Lands on the Houses of Parliament 1998
Cornelia Parker (b.1956)
Map of London with a burn mark left by a meteorite
H 38 x W 51 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Samuel John Peploe (1871–1935)
Oil on canvas
H 59.7 x W 48.2 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Small Incident 1986
Tom Phillips (1937–2022)
Oil on board
H 65 x W 65 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Mrs Eva Lutyens 1935–1936
Glyn Warren Philpot (1884–1937)
Oil on canvas
H 95.9 x W 68.9 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
John Piper (1903–1992)
Oil on wood
H 51 x W 61 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
The Blackwater, near Maldon, Essex
Roland Vivian Pitchforth (1895–1982)
Oil on board
H 56 x W 75 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Dod Procter (1892–1972)
Oil on canvas
H 59 x W 49.5 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
On the Way to Maspalomas, Canary Islands, Spain
Anne Redpath (1895–1965)
Oil on board
H 71.1 x W 91.4 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Francis Reily (1858–1928)
Oil on canvas
H 32.9 x W 46.3 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Pick-a-Back 1973
Harold Riley (1934–2023)
Oil on board
H 86.5 x W 43 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Claude Rogers (1907–1979)
Oil on canvas
H 135 x W 190 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Tea Shop 1938
William Patrick Roberts (1895–1980)
Oil on canvas
H 82.5 x W 76.2 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Westerly Breeze, Ainsdale, Merseyside
Herbert F. Royle (1870–1958)
Oil on canvas
H 50.2 x W 60.3 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Harry Rutherford (1903–1985)
Oil on wood panel
H 38 x W 54.5 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Self Portrait 1953 or before
Adrian Ryan (1920–1998)
Oil on canvas
H 46.3 x W 43.8 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Deborah Sedgwick (b.1975)
Oil on canvas
H 66 x W 58 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Desmond Haughton 2003
Nahem Shoa (b.1968)
Oil on canvas
H 37 x W 27.5 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Walter Richard Sickert (1860–1942)
Oil on canvas
H 74.2 x W 61.5 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Howard Somerville (1873–1952)
Oil on canvas
H 125.9 x W 99.5 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Popes' Palace, Avignon, France
Adrian Scott Stokes (1854–1935)
Oil on canvas
H 68.5 x W 84 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
William Strang (1859–1921)
Oil on canvas
H 51 x W 40.6 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Carel Victor Morlais Weight (1908–1997)
Oil on canvas
H 121.9 x W 82.5 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Kyffin Williams (1918–2006)
Oil on canvas
H 50 x W 110 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Terrick John Williams (1860–1936)
Oil on canvas
H 51 x W 76 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Toledo, Spain 1953
Jack Coburn Witherop (1906–1984)
Oil on canvas
H 73.7 x W 83.8 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
Mohammed Ben Laitzi 1935 or before
Edward Wolfe (1897–1982)
Oil on wood
H 84 x W 62 cm
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection
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