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Only 30 days left to catch Augustus John: Drawn from Life at @PooleMuseum. It’s a once in a generation exhibition of the most significant artist to have lived and worked in Poole and a chance not to be missed!
Have you seen Augustus John: Drawn from Life yet? Don’t risk missing the most ambitious exhibition, with the most wide ranging and important loans, ever staged in Poole! Free admission.
No 16 in our Augustus John highlight series is a 1909 watercolour study of Lady Ottoline Morrell, doyenne of the Bloomsbury Group and associated with, and much depicted by, John and Henry Lamb, who you can see @SalisburyMuseum. Image courtesy of @mcrartgallery. #friendsandrivals
No 10 in the Augustus John highlight series is a Friday treat, An Hour at Ower, 1914 (private collection) one of the outstanding panels of Dorelia made in the vicinity of Poole Harbour while John lived in Poole. The other woman is Norah Brownsword, with whom John had an affair.
#FineArtFriday
'Green Sea, Studland, Dorset' - Peter Ronald J. Cumming (1916–1993)
From our #PoolePottery collection, designs by Joseph Roelants on display on Floor 3.
Looking for something to do this weekend? Add your own dedications to our wall in Her Story: Tales of Poole women past and present. Today 10-4, Sunday 12-4, free entry.
Her Story features a few selected stories of Poole women’s past and present - a tiny representation of the many thousands that could have been in the exhibition. You can add your’s on the dedication wall:
Starting tomorrow - Her Story: Tales of Poole women past and present. Add your your dedication or share a memory of a woman who has been important to you.
Our new exhibition, Her Story: Tales of Poole women past and present, opens on Saturday 20 January with inspirational stories for today’s audiences.