Celebrating Work and Play: Photographic gems from Penlee's archives

 Image: 'Leapfrog', c.1950 Garfield Hall, Penlee House Gallery & Museum

Amateur and professional photographers have captured the lives of people at work and play in West Cornwall for 150 years. This exhibition uses Penlee’s photographic collection to show people hard at work fishing, farming, manufacturing, mining and working in the home alongside delightful images of fearless swimmers, fairs, carnivals, sports teams, tea treats and days on the beach. 

Photographic exhibition: Ground floor galleries. A selection of Newlyn School paintings on view upstairs in Gallery 5

Newlyn School Interiors 21 March- 6 June 2020

Image: 'The Jubilee Hat', 1887, Frank Wright Bourdillon, Private Collection, On loan to Penlee House Gallery & Museum. 

 

The Newlyn School artists are famous for painting outdoors, 'en plein air'. The Cornish light and landscape attracted painters to Newlyn, but once here, they found inspiration not just outside, but also within local homes, sail lofts and schools. 

Bringing together a fine selection of Newlyn School interiors, including works by Walter Langley, Stanhope Forbes, Elizabeth Forbes and Frank Bramley, the exhibition will give an insight into the living conditions of Victorian Newlyn. 

 

Ground floor galleries.