Collecting artworks since 1883, the Gallery is especially known for its Charles Lee Collection of oil paintings, watercolours, drawings and engravings, presented to the town in 1888. It has an additionally fine selection of Modern British Art from the 20th Century amongst the more than 2,000 artworks in its collection. Developed in association with Grant Waters, Art Detective Group Leader: South East England, East England and the Midlands.
E. O. W. on Her Blue Eiderdown 1963
Frank Helmuth Auerbach (b.1931)
Oil on canvas
H 47 x W 54 cm
Gallery Oldham
Coniston Fell, Lancashire, from Harter Fell, Cumberland 1947
Delmar Harmood Banner (1896–1983)
Oil on canvas
H 63.5 x W 76.2 cm
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The Serpentine Quarry, near Mullion, Cornwall c.1920
Samuel John Lamorna Birch (1869–1955)
Oil on canvas
H 90 x W 120.5 cm
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Sewing Machine, Wife and Baby c.1960
John Randall Bratby (1928–1992)
Oil on board
H 89.5 x W 118 cm
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The Bird Shop c.1920
Herbert Ashwin Budd (1881–1950)
Oil on canvas
H 101.5 x W 127 cm
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Autumn in the Valley of the Ouse, Sussex exhibited 1905
Alfred East (1844–1913)
Oil on canvas
H 120.5 x W 151 cm
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Fifteenth Portrait of Peggy Jean 1935
Jacob Epstein (1880–1959)
Bronze
H 56.5 x W 44 x D 27 cm
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The Drinking Place 1900
Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1857–1947)
Oil on canvas
H 174 x W 152.5 cm
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Adelaide Stanley as Kate in 'The Two Bouquets'
Ethel Léontine Gabain (1883–1950)
Oil on canvas
H 74.5 x W 62 cm
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Allan Gwynne-Jones (1892–1982)
Oil on canvas
H 43.2 x W 40.6 cm
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Scarlet and Green in Brown, November, 1961 1961
Patrick Heron (1920–1999)
Oil on canvas
H 74 x W 100 cm
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Allow Your Friends to Meet Your Enemies 2011
Lubaina Himid (b.1954)
Acrylic, pencil & magazine clipping on paper
H 74.5 x W 95 cm
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A Summer Idyll 1908
Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864–1933)
Oil on canvas
H 126 x W 151 cm
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The Burmese Dancer IV 1919–1920
Gerald Festus Kelly (1879–1972)
Oil on canvas
H 117 x W 81 cm
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'The tender grace of a day that is dead will never come back to me' 1909
Walter Langley (1852–1922)
Oil on canvas
H 115.5 x W 105.5 cm
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Hardings Down, Llangynydd (Llangennith) 1928
Cedric Lockwood Morris (1889–1982)
Oil on canvas
H 61 x W 75 cm
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Rising Moon, St Ives Bay, Cornwall exhibited 1905
Albert Julius Olsson (1864–1942)
Oil on canvas
H 115.5 x W 151 cm
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Gravy for the Navy 1963
Peter Phillips (b.1939)
Oil & gloss paint on canvas & hardboard
H 240 x W 159 cm
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Unveiling of the War Memorial, Oldham, Lancashire, 28 April 1923
James Purdy (1900–1972)
Oil on canvas
H 101.5 x W 122 cm
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Boating Lake, Alexandra Park, Oldham, Lancashire
Harold Riley (1934–2023)
Oil on paper
H 74 x W 100 cm
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A Corner of the Talmud School 1907
William Rothenstein (1872–1945)
Oil on canvas
H 90 x W 70.5 cm
Gallery Oldham
Her favourite scented hair oil and comb... 1999
Abdus Shakoor Shah (b.1946)
Watercolour on paper
H 35 x W 27 cm
Gallery Oldham
Barnet Fair, Hertfordshire 1930
Walter Richard Sickert (1860–1942)
Oil on canvas
H 73.5 x W 61 cm
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Along the Shore 1914
Joseph Edward Southall (1861–1944)
Tempera on silk
H 53.3 x W 36.8 cm
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Welsh Landscape 1938
Graham Vivian Sutherland (1903–1980)
Gouache on paper
H 59 x W 70 cm
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Imaginary Harbour II 1934
Edward Alexander Wadsworth (1889–1949)
Tempera & linen canvas on hardboard
H 59.9 x W 85.1 cm
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'As I wend to the shores I know not, As I list to the dirge, the voices of men and women wreck'd' 1951
Carel Victor Morlais Weight (1908–1997)
Oil on panel
H 120 x W 260 cm
Gallery Oldham