A collector of the works of Sheffield artist Stanley Royle is launching a catalogue linked to a Millennium Gallery exhibition, reports Ian Soutar
ONE of the most comprehensive retrospectives of work by Sheffield artists of the 20th century ever seen in the city is being staged at the Millennium Gallery next weekend.
A Century of Sheffield Art will feature more than 100 works ranging from those who made their reputation in early part of the century, such as Stanley Royle and Harry Epworth Allen, to those still working today, like Joe Scarborough and Royal Academician John Hoyland.
The selling exhibition organised by Derwent-Wye Fine Art is to launch Stanley Royle: Catalogue of his Works by Timothy Dickson, which the Derbyshire dealers are publishing.
A graduate in graphic design at Sheffield Hallam University, Dickson owns an extensive contemporary art collection and spent more than 20 years researching the book.
Combining a biography of the landscape painter with more than 500 illustrations of his work, it is being published as a limited edition volume of 250 numbered copies costing £95.
Leading Sheffield artist Joe Scarborough was commissioned to paint a commemorative artwork for the exhibition and will talk about his painting of Sheffield railway station at the preview on Friday.
Another popular portrayer of Sheffield, George Cunningham, is also featured.
Distinguished pre-war names include portrait painter David Jagger, watercolourist George Hamilton Constantine, seascape specialist Frank Saltfleet and landscape painter WH Pigott.
Jack Smith and Derrick Greaves, who grew up on the same street in Sheffield and went on to be pioneers of Kitchen Sink realism in the Fifties, are represented, along with abstract painter Brian Fielding and Menorca-based sculptor and painter Kenneth Draper.
From today's Sheffield art scene Trevor Neal will be showing three pictures.
The preview of A Century of Sheffield Art, sponsored by Hart Shaw Chartered Accountants, in the Long Gallery, Millennium Gallery, on Friday, October 10 is by ticket only.
The exhibition will be open to the public on the Saturday and Sunday and then it will be on view at the Exhibit Gallery in Rowsley, Derbyshire, for three weeks from October 15.
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