Collection of Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester


The Whitworth Art Gallery is located in Manchester, England south of the Manchester University campus in Whitworth Park.  The Gallery was founded in 1889 with money donated by Sir Joseph Whitworth, now the Gallery is a part of the University of Manchester.  The Gallery houses one of the UK’s finest collections of art and design which includes modern and historic fine art, watercolours, prints, textiles, sculptures and rare wallpapers.  The Gallery focuses on modern artists such as Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Ford Madox Brown, Eduardo Paolozzi, Francis Bacon, William Blake, David Hockney, L. S. Lowry, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and J.M.W. Turner.


1887 Ramparts of Paris, The Watercolor Ramparts-of-Paris,-The
1890 Wheat Field with a Stack of Wheat or Hay Drawing Wheat-Field-with-a-Stack-of-Wheat-or-Hay





Interior of a Restaurant in Arles Orchard with Blossoming Apricot Trees Outskirts of Paris near Montmartre View of The Hague with the New Church
Interior of a Restaurant in Arles Orchard with Blossoming Apricot Trees Outskirts of Paris near Montmartre View of The Hague with the New Church
"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures."