Art Then! British Painting, Sculpture and Drawing, 1910 – 1960

This extensive new exhibition celebrates half a century of Modern British Art, exploring the response to Roger Fry's 1910 Post-Impressionism exhibition. About Art Then! explores the response to a pivotal moment in Modern British Art – Roger Fry's 1910 exhibition of Post Impressionism, which for the first time properly introduced Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and a number of other avant-garde artists to the British public. Fry's exhibition was then followed twenty-three years later by the publication of Herbert Read's seminal book, Art Now, which reviewed how British artists had reacted to this Modernist revolution. Drawing on both Southampton's collection and The Ingram Collection, this exhibition includes works by many leading British artists of this period, including Paul Nash, Eric Ravilious and Barbara Hepworth, alongside works by several less well known, but no less fascinating, figures. Curated by Dr. David Boyd Haycock (author of A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War) and in collaboration with The Ingram Collection of Modern British Art, it brings together paintings, sculptures and drawings from one of the most exciting periods in British art. Read more Toggle Sculpture Drawing Painting