Fry Art Gallery
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The Fry Art Gallery is an art gallery located in Saffron Walden, Essex, England. In its present form the gallery was established in 1985 and it is managed by the Fry Art Gallery Society. The Gallery's permanent collection is rotated annually, these works are complemented by changing exhibitions in the gallery.
The Fry 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.
[edit] Great Bardfield Artists
The gallery has a special emphasis on the dynamic Great Bardfield Artists community which settled in the Essex village of Great Bardfield, during the middle years of the last century. Bardfield artists of note, many of whom having had exhibitions at the Fry, include John Aldridge RA , 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, and Marianne Straub.
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[edit] References
- Martin Salisbury (Ed), Artists at the Fry: Art and Design in the North West Essex Collection, Ruskin Press, Cambridge, 2003
