To celebrate World Art Day 2024 we asked our team at Swindon Museums to nominate their favourite piece of art from the Museum & Art Swindon Collection.

12 artworks
Interior Study (a)
© estate of Richard Hamilton. All rights reserved, DACS 2024. Image credit: Museum & Art Swindon

Interior Study (a) 1964

Richard Hamilton (1922–2011)

Oil & collage on paper

H 38.1 x W 50.8 cm

Museum & Art Swindon

Spring in Eden
© the artist's estate. Image credit: Museum & Art Swindon

Spring in Eden 1925

Ivon Hitchens (1893–1979)

Oil on canvas

H 49 x W 59.5 cm

Museum & Art Swindon

The Gloriette, Corfe Castle
© the artist. Image credit: Museum & Art Swindon

The Gloriette, Corfe Castle

Jeremy Gardiner (b.1957)

Museum & Art Swindon

Tower Bridge, London: A War-Time Nocturne
© the artist's estate. Image credit: Museum & Art Swindon

Tower Bridge, London: A War-Time Nocturne

Claude Francis Barry (1883–1970)

Oil on canvas

H 73 x W 94.5 cm

Museum & Art Swindon

The Printer
© the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: Museum & Art Swindon

The Printer c.1915

Laura Sylvia Gosse (1881–1968)

Oil on canvas

H 100 x W 74.8 cm

Museum & Art Swindon

Descent of the Bull's Head
© the artist / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: Museum & Art Swindon

Descent of the Bull's Head 1985

Maggi Hambling (b.1945)

Oil on cotton duck

H 160 x W 122.5 cm

Museum & Art Swindon

The Black Sea Coast
Image credit: Museum & Art Swindon

The Black Sea Coast 1911

Roger Eliot Fry (1866–1934)

Oil on canvas

H 70 x W 90 cm

Museum & Art Swindon

The Downs Village of Aldbourne, Wiltshire
Image credit: Museum & Art Swindon

The Downs Village of Aldbourne, Wiltshire

Kate Allen Tryon (1865–1952)

Oil on canvas

H 32.2 x W 37.5 cm

Museum & Art Swindon

Ship Amid Tall Waves
Image credit: Museum & Art Swindon

Ship Amid Tall Waves

Alfred Wallis (1855–1942)

Oil & pencil on cardboard

H 26.5 x W 32.5 cm

Museum & Art Swindon

Beach House West of Looe
© the artist. Image credit: Museum & Art Swindon

Beach House West of Looe 2000–2007

David Bent

Acrylic on canvas

H 120 x W 120 cm

Museum & Art Swindon

Welsh Hills
Image credit: Museum & Art Swindon

Welsh Hills

Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (1889–1946)

Oil on canvas

H 49.3 x W 59.5 cm

Museum & Art Swindon

1933 (composition in black and white)
© Angela Verren Taunt. All rights reserved, DACS 2024. Image credit: Museum & Art Swindon

1933 (composition in black and white) 1933

Ben Nicholson (1894–1982)

Oil & gesso on board

H 112 x W 53 cm

Museum & Art Swindon