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Joan Manning Sanders shot to fame as a child prodigy, and is the youngest person ever to have exhibited at the Royal Academy, where she first showed aged 15.  Brought up by her artist father and writer mother, she was encouraged by family friends such as Dod Procter, Laura Knight and Harold Harvey.  Sadly, her career was short-lived as she gave up painting in the 1940s, and most of the works in this exhibition have been unseen since then, having been abandoned in an attic for many decades.  Some of the paintings have been restored by the Courtauld Institute, London, and information on the restoration process will also be displayed, as will works by her Newlyn School friends and mentors.
Galleries 2, 3, 4: selection of Newlyn School paintings on view upstairs in Gallery 5

 

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19 Nov 2011 – 14 Jan 2012 

Penlee House’s annual selling exhibition of work by Cornwall Crafts offers a wealth of items by some of Britain’s leading craftspeople, all of which are available for immediate purchase (cash, cheque or credit cards only).
ADMISSION FREE Gallery 1

In 2009, Penlee House purchased a collection of around 500 ‘Magic Lantern’ slides, with funding from the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund and Friends of Penlee House.  Originally used to illustrate a lecture, the collections forms a comprehensive photographic record of the history and development of Penzance and the surrounding area through the 19th and early 20th centuries, offering unique images of significant local events, ranging from shipwrecks and fires to major building projects and important celebratory events.  This exhibition comprises a selection of prints from the collection, selected by John Wallis and the Penlee House photographic research group.
Gallery 1: a selection of Newlyn School and Lamorna Group paintings in all other galleries

 

Both geographically and in spirit, the far west of Cornwall is closer to Brittany than to London, and trading links between the two places stretch back many centuries.  Arriving in 1884, Stanhope Forbes famously described Newlyn as ‘a sort of English Concarneau’, as he and many of the other artists settling here at that time had first spent time in Brittany.  This exhibition looks at the strong links between Cornouaille, Brittany, and West Cornwall, including paintings by much-loved ‘local’ figures such as Stanhope and Elizabeth Forbes, Walter Langley and Frank Heath, together with artefacts and photographs.  Curated in conjunction with Le Musée Departmental Breton, Quimper.  
Ground floor galleries: a selection of Newlyn School paintings on view upstairs in Gallery 5