THE BRITISH ARE COMING!
Discover the New English Art Club

January 24- April 11, 2010

Admission: $8 general public/$5 senior citizens
All students and UK faculty, staff, and alumni are admitted free
The exhibition is also open for free on Friday nights from 5 until 8 pm

Museum Hours: Tuesday through Sunday: noon to 5 pm and Friday noon to 8 pm

JOHN WARD, Artist With Subject, pastel on paper

The British Are Coming! Discover the New English Art Club is one of an ongoing series at the Museum that brings together the best in private regional collections and makes the art available for public viewing, often for the first time.

It will examine the establishment and evolution of the New English Art Club, which was founded in 1886 by John Singer Sargent. The club consisted of a group of painters who were influenced by what were then radical ideas coming out of France—notably Naturalism and Impressionism. Rejected by the Royal Academy, these artists staged the most daring exhibitions of the late nineteenth century.Contemporary artists of the New English Arts Club—among them John Ward, Tom Coates, Ken Howard, Leslie Worth, Peter Brown, Lionel Edwards, and Sir Alfred Munnings—will be featured in this exhibition, along with several examples of historic work.

The exhibition and related catalogue will offer a look at an important historic movement little known in this country and will feature portraits, interior scenes, landscapes and related paintings. Easily accessible for a wide audience, it has the potential to be quite popular at that the same time that it promotes a greater understanding of British art and culture.
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