ARTS COUNCIL COLLECTION
Merlyn Evans - Metropolitan Crowd Forming a Procession
1953-1954
Great news! As a result of connections with the Haywired group (part of the South Bank Centre and the Hayward Gallery) St Paul’s Way Trust School had the fantastic opportunity to display 7 extremely exciting and dramatic paintings from the Arts Council Collection around the school for a year.
The Arts Council Collection founded in 1946 supports artists in this country through the purchase and display of their work. As a consequence the Arts Council Collection is now the largest national loan collection of modern and contemporary British art in the world, and includes fine examples of work by all of this country’s most prominent artists. It is the most widely circulated of all of Britain’s national collections and can be seen in exhibitions in museums and galleries across the UK and abroad, and now including St Paul’s Way Trust School.
We had on display two large pieces by Daniel Coombs above the staff room, a large pieceby Merlyn Evans above Graphics and a large piece by Mick Bennett in the Trust Room. In the art department, we had two smaller framed art pieces by Jeffrey Dennis.
The Arts Council Collection founded in 1946 supports artists in this country through the purchase and display of their work. As a consequence the Arts Council Collection is now the largest national loan collection of modern and contemporary British art in the world, and includes fine examples of work by all of this country’s most prominent artists. It is the most widely circulated of all of Britain’s national collections and can be seen in exhibitions in museums and galleries across the UK and abroad, and now including St Paul’s Way Trust School.
We had on display two large pieces by Daniel Coombs above the staff room, a large pieceby Merlyn Evans above Graphics and a large piece by Mick Bennett in the Trust Room. In the art department, we had two smaller framed art pieces by Jeffrey Dennis.