Fry Art Gallery

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The Fry Art Gallery is an art gallery located in Saffron Walden, Essex, England. The gallery in its present form was established in 1985 and is managed by the Fry Art Gallery Society. The permanent pictures on show are changed each year and these works are complimented by changing exhibitions in the gallery.

The Fry Art Gallery houses an impressive number of art works by artists who have local connections with north west Essex. Artists of note include Michael Ayrton, Paul Beck, Sir George Clausen RA, Robert Colquhoun, Robert MacBryde, and the photographer, Edwin Smith. Each summer the gallery hangs works by members of the Fry family after whom the gallery is named.

The gallery has a special emphasis on the dynamic art community who settled in the nearby village of Great Bardfield, Essex, during the middle years of the last century. Resident artists of note include: [[John Aldridge (Royal Academican)]], Edward Bawden CBE, Richard Bawden, George Chapman, Bernard Cheese, Stanley Clifford-Smith, Audrey Cruddas, Tirzah Garwood, Joan Glass, Walter Hoyle, Eric Ravilious, Sheila Robinson, Michael Rothenstein, Kenneth Rowntree, Marianne Straub, among others. Many of these artists have had exhibitions at the Fry Art Gallery and examples of their work are in the gallery collection.

Address and contact details:

The Fry Art Gallery, Castle Street, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 1BD

Telephone (01799) 513779

Fry Art Gallery web site: [1]

References:

Martin Salisbury (Ed), Artists at the Fry: Art and Design in the North West Essex Collection, Ruskin Press, Cambridge, 2003