Glynn Vivian Art Gallery was founded by the art collector and philanthropist Richard Glynn Vivian (1835–1910) and opened in Swansea in 1911 with his collection of paintings, drawings and china and an endowment of £10,000. The 20th Century art collection developed in the first half of the 20th Century thanks in large part to its first curator, the artist Grant Murray, who acquired works by significant Welsh artists such as Augustus John, Gwen John and James Dickson Innes; and younger painters including Kyffin Williams and John Elwyn. The collection now holds works by all the major figures in the development of Welsh art in the 20th Century as well as other well-known artists such as Barbara Hepworth, Paul Nash and Stanley Spencer.
Summer 1940
Harry Epworth Allen (1894–1958)
Tempera on canvas
H 50.4 x W 60.8 cm
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
Miss Cotton 1949
Joan Elizabeth Baker (1922–2017)
Oil on board
H 53.8 x W 39.2 cm
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Keith Baynes (1887–1977)
Oil on canvas
H 31.5 x W 39.5 cm
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The Green Divan 1957
William Brooker (1918–1983)
Oil on canvas
H 63.5 x W 76.2 cm
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Dora Maar – Intérieur Provençal 1952
Brenda Chamberlain (1912–1971)
Oil on canvas
H 63.5 x W 76.3 cm
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Evan Charlton (1904–1984)
Oil on board
H 90.5 x W 121 cm
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The Connoisseur c.1998
James Donovan (b.1974)
Acrylic on calico
H 80 x W 70 cm
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John Elwyn (1916–1997)
Oil on board
H 23 x W 29.5 cm
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Will Evans (1888–1957)
Oil on canvas
H 61.2 x W 66 cm
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Standing Figure 1974
Elisabeth Frink (1930–1993)
Bronze & acrylic plastic
H 34.9 x W 9.9 x D 17.5 cm
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The Artist's Mother 1913
Mark Gertler (1891–1939)
Oil on canvas
H 45 x W 42.5 cm
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Welsh Mountains exhibited 1930
Oliver Hall (1869–1957)
Oil on canvas
H 59.6 x W 75 cm
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Mametz Wood 1916
Edward Henry Handley-Read (1870–1935)
Oil on canvas
H 121 x W 151.6 cm
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Anima – Curved Form with Inner Form 1959
Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975)
Bronze
H 63 x W 70 x D 37 cm
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Patricia Preece (1894–1966) or Dorothy Hepworth (1894–1978)
Oil on canvas
H 45 x W 54.8 cm
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Flooded Meadow 1949
Tristram Paul Hillier (1905–1983)
Tempera on canvas
H 60.2 x W 80.7 cm
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Essex River and Greenhill 1946
Ivon Hitchens (1893–1979)
Oil on canvas
H 68.1 x W 117 cm
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Eric Hesketh Hubbard (1892–1957)
Oil on canvas
H 61.8 x W 71.3 cm
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Arenig Mountain c.1912
James Dickson Innes (1887–1914)
Oil on canvas
H 25.5 x W 35.4 cm
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Augustus Edwin John (1878–1961)
Oil on canvas
H 46 x W 76.8 cm
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Welsh Landscape in Winter 1912–1913
Derwent Lees (1884–1931)
Oil on panel
H 25.2 x W 35.5 cm
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Carreg Cennen Castle 1938
James Bolivar Manson (1879–1945)
Oil on canvas
H 69.5 x W 90 cm
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Benito Quinquela Martin (1890–1977)
Oil on canvas
H 105 x W 125 cm
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Kenneth Martin (1905–1984)
Brass & wood
H 18.5 x W 23 x D 23 cm
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Llanthony Valley 1949
Georg Mayer-Marton (1897–1960)
Oil on canvas
H 50.9 x W 68.6 cm
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Denis Adeane Mitchell (1912–1993)
Bronze & slate
H 43 x W 30.2 x D 3.4 cm
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Cedric Lockwood Morris (1889–1982)
Oil on canvas
H 66.2 x W 81 cm
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Grey Day, Tenby 1937
Sam Morse-Brown (1903–2001)
Oil on board
H 45.8 x W 50.8 cm
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
William Grant Murray (1877–1950)
Oil on board
H 61 x W 91.5 cm
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Landscape of the Bagley Woods 1943
Paul Nash (1889–1946)
Oil on canvas
H 56 x W 86.3 cm
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Cockle Woman 1940
Ernst Neuschul (1895–1968)
Oil on canvas
H 100.4 x W 81.8 cm
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Welsh Landscape 1969
Arlie Panting (1914–1994)
Oil on canvas
H 71.1 x W 91.4 cm
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Cefn Bryn, Gower 1933
Lucien Pissarro (1863–1944)
Oil on canvas
H 47.3 x W 55 cm
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The Herb of the Field (Self Portrait) 1999–2000
Edward Povey (b.1951)
Oil on canvas
H 35.5 x W 25.2 cm
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Carneddi on a Summer's Day 1978
Peter Prendergast (1946–2007)
Oil on paper on board
H 110.5 x W 106.4 cm
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Dod Procter (1892–1972)
Oil on canvas
H 49.7 x W 60.2 cm
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Shani Rhys James (b.1953)
Oil on linen
H 31 x W 25 cm
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The Pianist 1948
Ceri Giraldus Richards (1903–1971)
Oil on canvas
H 63.4 x W 76.2 cm
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Public Reading Room 1986
Will Roberts (1907–2000)
Oil on canvas
H 58.5 x W 73.8 cm
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Miss Jane Tupper-Carey c.1922
William Patrick Roberts (1895–1980)
Oil on canvas
H 41 x W 31 cm
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Vase of Flowers in a Landscape
Kenneth Rowntree (1915–1997)
Oil on canvas
H 40.5 x W 50.7 cm
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Winter Landscape, Cornwall 1920
Matthew Arnold Bracy Smith (1879–1959)
Oil on canvas
H 54.2 x W 64.8 cm
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Winter Evening c.1955
Ruskin Spear (1911–1990)
Oil on board
H 76.5 x W 61 cm
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Marriage at Cana, Bride and Bridegroom 1953
Stanley Spencer (1891–1959)
Oil on canvas
H 66 x W 51 cm
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Welsh Cottage 1958
Fred Uhlman (1901–1985)
Oil on canvas
H 52.5 x W 68.1 cm
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Warrior 1959
John Keith Vaughan (1912–1977)
Oil on canvas
H 124 x W 93.5 cm
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Village Lane, Mumbles c.1929
Evan Walters (1893–1951)
Oil on canvas
H 24.9 x W 20.1 cm
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Christopher Williams (1873–1934)
Oil on board
H 28.2 x W 37.2 cm
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Landscape around December 1977–1978
Ernest Zobole (1927–1999)
Oil on canvas
H 152.2 x W 121.7 cm
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