Bolton Museum opened in the middle of the elegant Le Mans Crescent in 1947. The 20th Century collection was considerably first with the bequest from Bolton cotton manufacturer, Frank Hindley Smith, who was friends with Roger Fry, Maynard Keynes and Samuel Courtauld, and so was able to introduce paintings by Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and William Roberts into the collection. Guided by the Walker Art Gallery, contemporary sculpture by Jacob Epstein, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth was purchased and the donation of the Sycamore Collection of British printmaking from 1900 to 1960 alongside other gifts and acquisitions has enabled Bolton to develop a collection of some distinction.
Gypsy Musician 1937
John Richardson Gauld (1885–1961)
Oil on canvas
H 68 x W 51 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council
William Bernard Adeney (1878–1966)
Oil on canvas
H 41.5 x W 54.4 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council

John Armstrong (1893–1973)
Oil on canvas
H 49 x W 69 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council

John Banting (1902–1972)
Oil on board
H 105 x W 80 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council
Keith Baynes (1887–1977)
Oil on canvas
H 59 x W 49 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council

View into a Garden 1926
Vanessa Bell (1879–1961)
Oil on board
H 70 x W 56 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council

Construction, Rock and Water 1953
Sandra Blow (1925–2006)
Oil, gouache, gum & scratching out on board
H 49.5 x W 66 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council
Brian Bradshaw (1923–2016)
Oil on canvas
H 90 x W 70 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council

Four Amaryllis in Pots before 1963
John Randall Bratby (1928–1992)
Oil on hardboard
H 120 x W 58.5 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council

Maquette for 'Winged Figures III' 1961
Lynn Chadwick (1914–2003)
Cast bronze
H 64 x W 42 x D 31 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council

Prunella Clough (1919–1999)
Oil on canvas
H 50.4 x W 30 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council

Shepherd Seated on a Rock 1943
John Craxton (1922–2009)
Ripolin on board
H 41 x W 53.4 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council

Maquette for TUC War Memorial 1955
Jacob Epstein (1880–1959)
Cast bronze
H 55 x W 30 x D 16 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council
First Study for 'The Chess Players' 1940
Merlyn Oliver Evans (1910–1973)
Oil on canvas
H 151 x W 151 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council

Bolton Back Street 1994
Geoffrey Scowcroft Fletcher (1923–2004)
Oil on canvas
H 60 x W 55 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council

Composition – Red & Yellow c.1960
Terry Frost (1915–2003)
Oil on canvas
H 76 x W 63.5 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council
Italian Landscape 1922
Roger Eliot Fry (1866–1934)
Oil on canvas
H 54 x W 65 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council
The French Novel (The Mirror) 1928
Charles Ginner (1878–1952)
Oil on canvas
H 67 x W 49 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council

Still Life with Table 1900–1940
Duncan Grant (1885–1978)
Oil on canvas
H 51 x W 37 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council
Tea Break, Lots Road, Fulham, London 1969
Brian Hagger (1935–2006)
Oil on canvas
H 92 x W 72 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council
Roger Hampson (1925–1996)
Oil on canvas
H 37 x W 24.5 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council
Three Forms 1968
Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975)
Carved lignum vitae
H 62 x W 57 x D 23 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council
Lubaina Himid (b.1954)
Oil on canvas
H 83.5 x W 83.5 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council
Still Life with Poppies 1940–1945
Ivon Hitchens (1893–1979)
Oil on canvas
H 80 x W 61 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council
Bolton Terraces c.1937–1950
Humphrey Jennings (1907–1950)
Oil on canvas
H 33 x W 43 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council
Landscape c.1971
Gwyneth Johnstone (1915–2010)
Oil on board
H 87 x W 105 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council

The Cruel Sea c.1967
Laura Knight (1877–1970)
Oil on canvas
H 76 x W 64 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council

Breton Youth 1910
Henry Lamb (1883–1960)
Oil on panel
H 32 x W 24 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council
The View from the Window, Back Garden, Adelaide Road, London
Lynton Harold Lamb (1907–1977)
Oil on canvas
H 67 x W 49 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council

Helmet Head No. 5 1966
Henry Moore (1898–1986)
Cast bronze
H 42 x W 33 x D 25 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council
Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (1889–1946)
Oil on canvas
H 74 x W 58 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council

Ben Nicholson (1894–1982)
Oil, tempera & pencil on board
H 25.4 x W 35.6 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council
John Nicholson (1916–1972)
Oil on canvas
H 49.5 x W 59.5 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council
To the Quick No. 5 1984
Thérèse Oulton (b.1953)
Oil & encaustic on canvas
H 71 x W 51 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council

Naked Head 1978
Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi (1924–2005)
Cast bronze
H 39.5 x W 36.5 x D 14 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council
Pennine Landscape c.1920–1940
Roland Vivian Pitchforth (1895–1982)
Oil on canvas
H 50.8 x W 61 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council
Stella Platt (1913–2011)
Oil on canvas
H 60 x W 51 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council

Bath Time (The Miner's Toilet and Wash Night) 1928–1935
William Patrick Roberts (1895–1980)
Oil on canvas
H 39 x W 49 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council
Church Wharf Bridge, Bolton 1956
Bryan Senior (b.1935)
Oil on board
H 57 x W 74 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council

Matthew Arnold Bracy Smith (1879–1959)
Oil on canvas
H 91 x W 59 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council
Kitchen Bedroom 1930
Albert Edward Turpin (1900–1964)
Oil on canvas
H 29 x W 39 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council
The Perspective of Idleness II 1942
Edward Alexander Wadsworth (1889–1949)
Tempera on linen on board
H 80 x W 62 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council
Erich Wolfsfeld (1884–1956)
Oil on paper
H 75 x W 57 cm
Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council
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John Banting (1902–1972)
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Albert Edward Turpin (1900–1964)
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Merlyn Oliver Evans (1910–1973)
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Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi (1924–2005)
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Lynn Chadwick (1914–2003)
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John Randall Bratby (1928–1992)
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Ben Nicholson (1894–1982)
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John Nicholson (1916–1972)
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Erich Wolfsfeld (1884–1956)
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Keith Baynes (1887–1977)
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