Exhibitions and Events
 

Cecil Higgins Art Gallery will be closed from Monday 18 June 2007 as the first phase of refurbishment of the
gallery and museum complex begins. It is due to re-open in 2009. The Bedford Museum remains open as usual.

What's On Guide - January 2007 - June 2007
 
Blake to Sutherland: The Romantic Tradition  

Blake to Sutherland
23 January – 17 June 2007  


Drawn from the extensive collection of watercolours, this exhibition will highlight some of the best-loved paintings owned by the Gallery. It will feature many great artists including Samuel Palmer, JMW Turner, Gabriel Rossetti, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, William Blake and Graham Sutherland amongst others and will trace the rich seam of the Romantic tradition in over 200 years of European art.

Free Lunchtime Lectures and Demonstrations  12.30 – 1pm

Friday 5 January - William Ratcliffe

Friday 26th January - The Romantic Tradition
Blake to Sutherland

Friday 23rd February 12 - The Lyrical Landscape
Literature and the Romantic tradition

Friday 23rd March - Towards a New Jerusalem
Blake, Linnell and Palmer

Friday 20th April - The Sublime and the Glory
JMW Turner 

Friday 25th May - An Arthurian Dream
The Pre-Raphaelites and their associates

Friday 15th June - Te Past Regained
Sutherland and the Neo-Romantics  

 

  

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