Penlee House Gallery & Museum is an elegant gallery set within
a Victorian house and park. Changing exhibitions mainly feature famous
'Newlyn School' and Lamorna Group artists (1880-1930).
Newlyn School artists include Stanhope and Elizabeth Forbes, Walter Langley, Harold Harvey and Norman Garstin (see Newlyn Artists Database link),
while the Lamorna Group includes Laura Knight,
'Lamorna' Birch and Alfred Munnings.

Penlee House is proud to be the host of the 2008 conference of the British Association of Friends of Museums.
This year's theme - A Sense of Place
3 - 5 October
click here for booking details and conference programme

Current Exhibition:

Dawn of a Colony:
Lyrical Light (St Ives 1889 - 1914)
&
Newlyn School works

14 June - 13 September 2008

William Eadie Where There's Life, There's Hope, 1890 Oil on Canvas Penlee House Gallery & Museum	Richard Hayley Lever Fishing Boats, St Ives Oil on Canvas Private Collection © Artists Estate

In the period prior before the First World War, the art colony at St Ives developed an international reputation as a centre for both the practice and teaching of landscape and marine painting, and was visited by leading artists from around the world. This ground-breaking survey of the art of the period brings together, for the very first time, a feast of paintings from this golden age of British art. The show has been researched by David Tovey, and marks the launch of his major new book, Pioneers of St Ives Art at Home and Abroad (1889-1914). Shown in conjunction with 'DAWN OF A COLONY Picturing the West: St Ives 1811 - 1888' at Tate St Ives (24 May to 21 September 2008).

Selection of Newlyn School paintings on view in Gallery 5

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