Messum's_Fine_Art

Messum's

Messum's

Art gallery in London

Messum's is an art gallery in Bury Street, St. James's, London, with a branch in Marlow, Buckinghamshire.

The Fond Farewell by Edmund Blair Leighton (1852–1922), exhibited at Messum's

History

The gallery was founded by David Messum in 1963.[1] The gallery exhibits contemporary art and work by British Impressionist, modern and figurative painters and sculptors. Messum's has promoted the work of the early Newlyn and St Ives painters.

Messum's has staged significant exhibitions of British Impressionism, and in 1985 David Messum's publishing company published British Impressionism: A Garden of Bright Images by Laura Wortley.[2]

In 2012 a proposed development in Cork Street threatened to cause Messum's to move.[3][4]

In 2016, Johnny Messum founded Messums Wiltshire, an art gallery based in the tithe barn at Place Farm, Tisbury, Wiltshire.[5]

Artists

Artists who have exhibited at the gallery include William Bowyer, Peter Brown, James Dodds, Rose Hilton, Kurt Jackson,[6] Edward Piper, John Piper[7] and Jeremy Annear.

References

  1. [1]
    artLONDON Archived 16 January 2006 at the Wayback Machine, 2005.
  2. [2]
    "British Impressionism: A Garden of Bright Images". Pallant House Gallery. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  3. [3]
    "A third of Cork Street's galleries to close". Phaidon. 2012. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
  4. [4]
    Batty, David (20 August 2012). "Mayfair's art galleries under threat from developers". The Guardian.
  5. [5]
    "About". Messums Wiltshire. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  6. [6]
    Kurt Jackson — Biography Archived 5 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
  7. [7]
    Musson, John, John and Edward Piper. Country Life, 7 June 2007.

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