Birmingham Library
Birmingham Library
The Barber Institute & the New Art Gallery, Walsall
Birmingham Library
Birmingham Library
The Barber Institute & the New Art Gallery, Walsall
A full coach was guaranteed for the FoWs' day trip to Birmingham, as a new venue was on the cards...The Library of Birmingham. But before that, we popped into the Art Deco Barber Institute, part of the university, to reacquaint ourselves with its world-class collection, as well as a super little room filled with some of CRW Nevinson's work. This & a twin display of 'Degenerate Art' showing harrowing but exquisitely rendered pictures of war & its effect, was particularly apt this year, on such a sad anniversary.
The verdict on the new, glittering library was generally favourable, with its outdoor viewing terraces & the magnificent historic Shakespeare Memorial Room being highly praised by most of our party. (See photos.)
To Walsall, where a young & enthusiastic curator showed us the original Garman Ryan (Epstein) Collection & told us some scandalous stories behind the colourful personalities!
A full coach was guaranteed for the FoWs' day trip to Birmingham, as a new venue was on the cards...The Library of Birmingham. But before that, we popped into the Art Deco Barber Institute, part of the university, to reacquaint ourselves with its world-class collection, as well as a super little room filled with some of CRW Nevinson's work. This & a twin display of 'Degenerate Art' showing harrowing but exquisitely rendered pictures of war & its effect, was particularly apt this year, on such a sad anniversary.
The verdict on the new, glittering library was generally favourable, with its outdoor viewing terraces & the magnificent historic Shakespeare Memorial Room being highly praised by most of our party. (See photos.)
To Walsall, where a young & enthusiastic curator showed us the original Garman Ryan (Epstein) Collection & told us some scandalous stories behind the colourful personalities!
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