World Art Day 2024 Showcase

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.

Artists featured in this Curation: Richard Hamilton (1922–2011), Ivon Hitchens (1893–1979), Jeremy Gardiner (b.1957), Claude Francis Barry (1883–1970), Laura Sylvia Gosse (1881–1968), Maggi Hambling (b.1945), Roger Eliot Fry (1866–1934), Kate Allen Tryon (1865–1952), Alfred Wallis (1855–1942), David Bent, and 2 more See all

12 artworks

Storyline Album Showcase

Interior Study (a) 1964
Richard Hamilton (1922–2011)
Oil & collage on paper
H 38.1 x W 50.8 cm
Museum & Art Swindon

© estate of Richard Hamilton. All rights reserved, DACS 2024. 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 artist's estate. Image credit: Museum & Art Swindon
The Gloriette, Corfe Castle
Jeremy Gardiner (b.1957)
Museum & Art Swindon

© the artist. 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 artist's estate. 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

© the artist's estate / 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 artist / Bridgeman Images. 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

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

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

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

© the artist. 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

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

© Angela Verren Taunt. All rights reserved, DACS 2024. Image credit: Museum & Art Swindon