Wednesday 23 January 2019

Ruskin’s and Turner’s influence on later artists


Refuge:  The Art of Belonging (15 February-29 June 2019, at Abbot Hall Gallery) 

 
IN showing Ruskins and Turners influence today among contemporary artists, the
exhibition will also display a series of large monochrome drawings by Emma Stibbon.
In June 2018, Royal Academician Stibbon retraced the steps of Turner and Ruskin
visiting the Alps.  She took the route made by Ruskin in June 1854 when he produced
a series of daguerreotypes (early photographs) of Alpine scenery, to see what remains
of the glaciers today.  Her work shows how geography has been impacted by climate
change over the last two centuries. Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud will also be
shown at York Art Gallery from March 29 to June 23 2019.

The exhibition book, bringing together a collection of new essays by artists, climate
change scientists, art historians and curators, will be published in March 2019.  More
Lakeland Artsexhibitions during 2019: 
 
Refuge, The Art of Belonging (15 February-29 June 2019, Abbot Hall) tells the story
of artists who entered Britain as a result of Nazi occupation alongside a community
project exploring the lives of refugees living in Cumbria. The exhibition examines
displacement within artistswork and the adoption of new landscapes.

The show features works from Lakeland ArtsCollection including Hilde Goldschmidt,
Hans Coper, Lucie Rie, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach and Kurt Schwitters. Schwitters
(1887-1948) the first multi-media artist, settled in Ambleside, Cumbria, after coming
to Britain as a refugee. Anne, Countess of Pembroke (Lady Anne Clifford) (22 March-
22 June 2019, Abbot Hall) sees an unsung campaigner return home.

Abbot Hall takes part in the National Portrait Gallerys Coming Home project which is
loaning portraits of iconic individuals to places across the country that they are most
closely associated with. This means Abbot Hall is able to show off the finest portrait
of Lady Anne Clifford, which is in the National Portrait Gallerys collection. Lady Anne
Clifford (1590-1676) spent much of her life in a long and complex legal battle to obtain
the rights of her inheritance.

This portrait of her, by William Larkin, (c1618), is an excellent example of those commissioned by members of the Court of Charles I. Her fascinating fight is known
through her diaries and the magnificent

The Great Picture, painted in 1646 and on permanent show at Abbot Hall. The Lady
Anne Clifford portrait, on loan from the National Portrait Gallery, will be hung alongside
the portrait of her mother, Lady Margaret Russell, Countess of Cumberland, which was
also painted by William Larkin. Annes mother was the only person who supported her
campaign.

The arrival of this important portrait sees mother and daughter reunited in Cumbria.

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