Hull University Art Collection

Hull University Art Collection

University of Hull Art Collection
University of Hull
Hull
East Yorkshire
HU6 7RX

Tel: 01482 465 192
Fax: 01482 465 192
E-Mail: j.g.bernasconi@hull.ac.uk

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About Hull University Art Collection

The Hull University Art Collection features 'Art in Britain from 1890 to 1940'. It isn't limited to British art but contains work by foreign artists who worked in this country, such as Lucien Pissarro, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Theodore Roussel and Ernst Stern.

Hull University started the collection in 1963. The founder of the University, Thomas Robinson Ferens, had left some money to encourage fine arts and it was decided to build up a collection of minor works, attractive in themselves and historically and stylistically related: a collection which would have its own distinctive character.

Unfortunately the initial budget for buying paintings was just £200 a year, so the emphasis was on finding pictures that were fairly cheap and building a collection "by concentrating on the unfashionable and inexpensive". In the 1960s, art from the period 1890/1940 met this description: it was affordable because few big galleries or collectors were interested in buying it.