Laing Art Gallery
Coordinates: 54°58′30″N 1°36′32″W / 54.975°N 1.609°W
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 Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle |
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 Laing Art Gallery
 Laing Art Gallery shown within Tyne and Wear |
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The Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, England is located on New Bridge Street. It was opened in 1904 and is now managed by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums and sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. In front of the gallery is the Blue Carpet.
The gallery holds oil paintings, watercolours and Newcastle silver. In the early 1880s, Newcastle was the greatest glass producer in the world and enamelled glasses by William Beilby are on view along with ceramics (including Maling pottery), and diverse contemporary works by emerging UK artists. It has a programme of regularly rotating exhibitions and has free entry.
The gallery boasts an extensive collection of paintings by John Martin, including the dramatic "The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah", as well as important works by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Burne-Jones ("Laus Veneris"), Holman Hunt ("Isabella and the Pot of Basil"), Ben Nicholson and others. There is also an extensive collection of 18th- and 19th-century watercolours and drawings, including work by Turner, Cotman etc.
[edit] External links
- Laing Art Gallery at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums site
- Geolocated 3D Google Earth model of the Laing Art Gallery
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