Collections
Opening times
Monday to Saturday (closed Sundays)
CURRENT HOURS
10.30 am - 4.30 pm
(last admission 4.00pm)
Admission £4.50 adults,
£3.00 concessions,
under 18s FREE
ADMISSION FREE ON SATURDAYS
WINTER HOURS
From 1 October
to Good Friday:
10.30am - 4.30pm
(last admission 4.00pm)
WINNER Cornwall Tourism Awards GOLD
South West Tourism Excellence Awards SILVER
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Fine Art
Tucking a School of Pilchards (The Tuck Boat)
Oil Painting
By: Craft, Percy Robert, Mr,
This painting shows a group of fishermen gathering a shoal of pilchards. It follows on from Craft's earlier work 'Hevva, Hevva', which depicts a huer shouting to the villagers that the pilchards have come into the bay. Everyone in the village would run down to the shore to help net the fish.
Unofficial title 'Two Dancers'
Enamel Painting
This enamel by Laura Knight and Ella Naper was given to Charles and Ruth Simpson (two Newlyn artists) as a wedding present in 1912 by Laura and Harold Knight.
Upper half of dog, held in arms, drawn on the reverse of a advertising letter for J. Wix & Sons, Kensitas cigarettes
Pencil Drawing
upper half of dog, held in arms, drawn on the reverse of a advertising letter for J. Wix & Sons, Kensitas cigarettes
Valley of Lemornah (sic)
Pen And Wash Drawing
By: Tremenheere, Walter
View of Lamorna Valley; two figures in right foreground, trees and two houses in middle ground.
Veronica as Clown, 1950
Oil Painting
By: Armstrong, John, Mr, A.R.A.
Extract from the exhibition at the Lefevre gallery in November 1951 - 'Since a common field of refernce no longer exists, it is appropriate for a painter to to explain the symbolism he uses. The Aesthetic and the emotional both being of importance in the present case, symbols have a double value. For example, umbrellas are interesting objects in themselves to paint, but the symbolise also the inadequate beliefs under which men attempt to shelter from the growing storm of despair. The clown gives an excuse for full draperies and the varied colours and patterns of the circus. he i, as well, the image of frustration, fighting battles of nothing, attempting a leap forward but doing a back-somersault instead'.