20th Century spotlight: Leicester Museums and Galleries

Leicester Museums and Galleries, alongside its exceptional collection of German Expressionist art and more recent donation from Lord and Lady Attenborough of Picasso ceramics, boasts a strong collection of 20th Century Art, principally Modern British, but also some works from France. The strengths in depth right across the 20th Century are in no small measure thanks to the collection policies pursued by Dr E.E. Lowe, Director between the two world wars, and Trevor Thomas and assistant Hans Hess.

Artists featured in this Curation: Mark Gertler (1891–1939), Francis Bacon (1909–1992), Delmar Harmood Banner (1896–1983), Walter Bayes (1869–1955), Vanessa Bell (1879–1961), John Bellany (1942–2013), Robert Polhill Bevan (1865–1925), David Bomberg (1890–1957), Prunella Clough (1919–1999), Frank Dobson (1886–1963), and 69 more See all

79 artworks

Storyline Album Showcase

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The Fruit Sorters 1914

Mark Gertler (1891–1939)

Oil on canvas

H 76.2 x W 63.5 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

Lying Figure No. 1 1959

Francis Bacon (1909–1992)

Oil on canvas

H 196 x W 141.5 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

Scafell from Birker Moor, Eskdale, Cumberland 1943–1944

Delmar Harmood Banner (1896–1983)

Oil on canvas

H 61 x W 91.5 cm

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The Bather 1917

Walter Bayes (1869–1955)

Oil on canvas

H 115.5 x W 56 cm

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The Spanish Lady 1912

Vanessa Bell (1879–1961)

Oil on millboard

H 75.6 x W 53 cm

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Lune de miel (Towards the Lighthouse) 1980

John Bellany (1942–2013)

Oil on canvas

H 183 x W 122.5 cm

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From the Artist's Window 1915–1916

Robert Polhill Bevan (1865–1925)

Oil on canvas

H 62.2 x W 75 cm

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Grief 1922

David Bomberg (1890–1957)

Oil on canvas

H 91.5 x W 71 cm

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Slag Heap 1959

Prunella Clough (1919–1999)

Oil on canvas

H 30.5 x W 46 cm

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Mary Bussell 1926

Frank Dobson (1886–1963)

Bronze

H 33 x W 29 x D 24 cm

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Girl in National Costume, in an Interior

Phyllis Dodd (1899–1995)

Oil on canvas

H 91.5 x W 71 cm

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Concrete Cabin 1991–1992

Peter Doig (b.1959)

Oil on canvas

H 200.5 x W 241 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

1991–1992, oil on canvas by Peter Doig (b.1959)

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Chelsea Public Library 1920

Malcolm Drummond (1880–1945)

Oil on canvas

H 39 x W 43.2 cm

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Motherhood

Thomas Cantrell Dugdale (1880–1952)

Oil on canvas

H 75.5 x W 62.2 cm

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A Leicester Vista 1955

Norman Ellis (1913–1971)

Oil on hardboard

H 71.1 x W 116.8 cm

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Puella 1930

Robert Jackson Emerson (1878–1944)

Plaster

H 45 x W 44 x D 23 cm

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The Weeping Woman 1922

Jacob Epstein (1880–1959)

Bronze & wood

W 60 x D 48 cm

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Eástre 1924

John Duncan Fergusson (1874–1961)

Brass

H 42 x W 23.5 x D 26 cm

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Eagle 1980

Elisabeth Frink (1930–1993)

Bronze & wood

H 39 x W 18 x D 25 cm

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Red and Blue 1959

Terry Frost (1915–2003)

Oil on canvas

H 76 x W 127 cm

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Samothrace, Greece 1912

Roger Eliot Fry (1866–1934)

Oil on panel & canvas

H 20.4 x W 30.5 cm

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Study for a Sepulchral Monument 1913

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891–1915)

Bronze

H 39 x W 35 x D 19.5 cm

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Meditation 1910–1911

Harold Gilman (1876–1919)

Oil on canvas

H 59 x W 44 cm

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Garden in Spring 1940

Charles Ginner (1878–1952)

Oil on canvas

H 50.8 x W 40.7 cm

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Harold Gilman's House at Letchworth, Hertfordshire 1912

Spencer Gore (1878–1914)

Oil on canvas

H 63.5 x W 76.2 cm

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A Nun with Children

Laura Sylvia Gosse (1881–1968)

Oil on canvas

H 70.8 x W 61.5 cm

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Lewes Landscape 1933–1934

Duncan Grant (1885–1978)

Oil on paper on board

H 60.2 x W 57.2 cm

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Studies for Hiroshige II 1974

Derrick Greaves (1927–2022)

Acrylic on canvas

H 127 x W 132 cm

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Borghese Gardens, Rome 1945

Kenneth Green (1905–1986)

Oil on canvas

H 76.5 x W 61 cm

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Painting Blue and White 1959

Adrian Heath (1920–1992)

Oil on canvas

H 101.5 x W 142 cm

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Spiral 1953

Roger Hilton (1911–1975)

Oil on canvas

H 25.3 x W 35.3 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

Flower Piece

Ivon Hitchens (1893–1979)

Oil on canvas

H 61 x W 55.7 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

The Three Clowns 1930

Laura Knight (1877–1970)

Oil on canvas

H 77 x W 63.5 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

Typist 1993

George Large (b.1936)

Oil on canvas

H 91.2 x W 61 cm

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Still Life with Flowers 1936

Edward Le Bas (1904–1966)

Oil on millboard

H 73.6 x W 56.2 cm

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Circus at Bath

Thérèse Lessore (1884–1945)

Oil on canvas

H 88 x W 68 cm

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Bust of a Young Woman 1910

André Lhote (1885–1962)

Oil on canvas

H 65.2 x W 48 cm

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Snow on the Hillside 1924

Frederick Nicholas Loveroff (1894–1960)

Oil on canvas

H 86.4 x W 95.3 cm

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Industrial Landscape, River Scene 1950

Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887–1976)

Oil on canvas

H 110.2 x W 148.3 cm

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A White Horse Drinking from a Stream

Sine MacKinnon (1901–1996)

Oil on canvas

H 40.5 x W 68.3 cm

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The Crucifixion 1942–1944

Leroy Leveson Laurent Joseph de Maistre (1894–1968)

Oil on canvas

H 130 x W 91.5 cm

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Paysage aux grands arbres 1947

Maurice Marinot (1882–1960)

Oil on canvas

H 73 x W 60 cm

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Bords du Loir 1907

Maxime Maufra (1861–1918)

Oil on canvas

H 65.3 x W 81.3 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

Box Two 1969 1969

F. E. McWilliam (1909–1992)

Bronze

H 23 x W 22.5 x D 22.5 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

Self Portrait 1943

John Melville (1902–1986)

Oil on canvas

H 29 x W 17.5 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

The Mother 1958–1959

Ronald Moody (1900–1984)

Cement

H 124 x W 67 x D 49 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

Reclining Figure 1938

Henry Moore (1898–1986)

Bronze

H 10.5 x W 22 x D 12.5 cm

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A Wayside Madonna 1927

Harry Morley (1881–1943)

Oil on canvas

H 108.3 x W 96.5 cm

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Nostalgic Landscape 1923–1938

Paul Nash (1889–1946)

Oil on canvas

H 71.2 x W 50.8 cm

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Head of a Woman 1922

Philip Naviasky (1894–1983)

Oil on canvas

H 51 x W 40.8 cm

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1948 (still life) 1948

Ben Nicholson (1894–1982)

Oil & graphite on board

H 35 x W 24.8 cm

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Crystals 1930

Winifred Nicholson (1893–1981)

Oil on canvas

H 51 x W 51 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

Mrs Fraser with Convict 1958

Sidney Nolan (1917–1992)

Oil on paper

H 25.5 x W 30.5 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

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Lady on a Couch 1900

William Orpen (1878–1931)

Oil on canvas

H 80 x W 89 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

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Low Tide

John Frederick Pettinger (1877–1939)

Oil on canvas

H 129 x W 154.9 cm

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The Day's End 1927

Ernest Procter (1886–1935)

Oil on canvas

H 91.5 x W 106.5 cm

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Untitled (Townscape) 1962

Lancelot Ribeiro (1933–2010)

Oil on board

H 122 x W 92 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

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Escape from the Circus 1938

Albert Richards (1919–1945)

Oil on canvas

H 45.5 x W 41.5 cm

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Weesen, Switzerland 1954

Brian Robb (1913–1979)

Oil on canvas

H 50.8 x W 60.3 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

At the Hippodrome 1921

William Patrick Roberts (1895–1980)

Oil on canvas

H 95 x W 90.6 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

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The Toilet 1924

William Rothenstein (1872–1945)

Oil on canvas

H 91.5 x W 76.4 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

The Fried Fish Shop 1936

Clifford Hooper Rowe (1904–1989)

Oil on panel

H 59.5 x W 112.8 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

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The Yellow Sleeve 1903–1904

Walter Richard Sickert (1860–1942)

Oil on canvas

H 38.5 x W 46.1 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

Reclining Nude 1924

Matthew Arnold Bracy Smith (1879–1959)

Oil on canvas

H 66 x W 82 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

The Tea Shop 1946 or before

Ruskin Spear (1911–1990)

Oil on panel

H 42.3 x W 49.5 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

Distant View of Maidenhead, Berkshire 1939

Stanley Spencer (1891–1959)

Oil on canvas

H 45.6 x W 56 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

Narrow Road between Hedges 1938–1939

Graham Vivian Sutherland (1903–1980)

Oil on canvas

H 68.6 x W 50.8 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

Trees at Rolvenden, Kent 1956

William Townsend (1909–1973)

Oil on canvas

H 71.3 x W 91.4 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

Tuscan Landscape 1954

Julian Trevelyan (1910–1988)

Oil on canvas

H 60.4 x W 76 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

Metamorphosis 1942

John Tunnard (1900–1971)

Oil on hardboard

H 31.5 x W 61 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

Vertical Tree Forms 1956

John Keith Vaughan (1912–1977)

Oil on canvas

H 91.5 x W 71 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

La route Napoléon 1912–1914

Maurice de Vlaminck (1876–1958)

Oil on canvas

H 73 x W 92 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

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Rue Fontaine de Caylus, Marseilles, France 1924

Edward Alexander Wadsworth (1889–1949)

Tempera on panel

H 94 x W 45.3 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

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September Morning

Ethel Walker (1861–1951)

Oil on canvas

H 50.8 x W 61 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

Small Building in Buxton, Derbyshire 1979

Bryan Ward (1921–1987)

Oil on board

H 23 x W 30 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

Portloe, Cornwall 1932

Sydney Robert Watson (1892–1971)

Oil on canvas

H 49.5 x W 60.5 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

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Dancing Sailors, Brittany, France 1930

Christopher Wood (1901–1930)

Oil & household paint on board

H 57.5 x W 82 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

The Return of Persephone from Hades 1930

James Arthur Woodford (1893–1976)

Roman stone

H 82 x W 42 x D 31 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

A Worshipper 1917

Allan Gairdner Wyon (1882–1962)

Treated bronze & stone

H 56 x W 40 x D 33 cm

Leicester Museums and Galleries

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Ronald Moody (1900–1984)
Brian Robb (1913–1979)
Ben Nicholson (1894–1982)
Maxime Maufra (1861–1918)
William Townsend (1909–1973)
John Tunnard (1900–1971)
Graham Vivian Sutherland (1903–1980)
Sidney Nolan (1917–1992)
James Arthur Woodford (1893–1976)
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891–1915)
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