Transfiguration
Guildhall Art Gallery, until 4 October
Transfiguration
Guildhall Art Gallery, until 4 October
Complaining the other day in these pages about the crowded nature of public exhibition spaces in London, I had momentarily forgotten the secret charms of the Guildhall Art Gallery. This museum, specialising in London subjects, receives scant attention in the press, and as a consequence it is less than mobbed by the public. Yet it has mounted a very creditable and popular-scholarly series of exhibitions, being particularly good on Victorian painters of the Frith and Watts type, while also dealing with modern and living artists. The permanent collection contains many treasures, some of which may be seen in the newly published catalogue Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in the City of London (Public Catalogue Foundation, £25 in hardback), as well as a huge collection of works by Matthew Smith (1879–1959), in all subjects and media.
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