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.

CURRENT EXHIBITION

Brotherhood of the Palette
20 June 2009 - 12 September 2009

125 years ago this year, a group of young artists posed to have their photographs taken: they were just becoming known as the 'Newlyn School' and were to become recognised as one of Britain's most important art colonies.

The exhibition being held at Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance this summer, provides a snapshot of the work produced by these artists at a time when their shared values, subjects and style led one of their number, Stanhope Forbes, to describe them as 'the brotherhood of the palette'. The exhibition includes important examples of work by the artists depicted in the photographs - including Forbes, Langley, Harris, Tuke, Tayler, Wainwright, Bodilly, Millard, Bramley, Fletcher and Todd - and offers an insight into the unifying values that makes them a true 'School' in art historical terms. .

Ground floor galleries: Lamorna School works on show in Gallery 5

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