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so here is one of our favourite paintings of elephants from our collections. African elephants by the wonderful Joseph Wolf, dated 1867. The famous 'Jumbo' & 'Alice' were the models for the painting.

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2021-08-12

It's on the Curator loves 'Indian Elephant' by John Macallan Swan from . "This beautiful chalk sketch gives a real sense of the elephant's movement."

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2021-08-12

Bask in the pearly glow of these birches by Luigi Lucioni (1900–1988)

Find out more in our upcoming Sept-Oct issue 💫


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2021-08-06

It's all about the greens on the today. We are in love with 'Spring, Botanic Gardens' from the master of colour John Duncan Fergusson. This is from BRILLIANT collection!

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It's greatest greens & excellent emeralds on the & chooses 'Curved Forms with Green' by Barbara Hepworth from .'Hepworth's paintings exude the same clarity and poise as her sculptures - here enlivened with a shot of emerald green.'

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2021-07-22

Today are looking for artworks to celebrate greatest greens and excellent emeralds for
Here's 1978 (green jug) by
Ben Nicholson (1894–1982) from

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2021-07-22

For this week's it has to be Duncan Grant’s painting of a game of football in Hyde Park after yesterday’s result!🙌
👉https://t.co/waGgHMSaTa

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2021-07-08

Tina's choice for Summer Sunday, Belfast by Lawson Burch, Northern Ireland Civil Service collection.
"Love this painting even if I’m not convinced its summer!" https://t.co/Za5zyA0hZB

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2021-07-01

We have a dynamic golden scene for today's 'Turning Hay' by Millie Frood (1900-1988). Frood studied at taught at & designed for the ballet

With its glowing, swirling bands this scene could almost be of a local steelworks!

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Today's is ✨glittering golds✨ so why a hummingbird? John Gould developed a technique using gold leaf to make bird illustrations iridescent as in life? Paint, the colour of the feathers was applied to gold leaf, then a glaze added: https://t.co/MaNoOCr86o

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As always, we've had a great ❤

Trotting off now! 🐎

Check out these in the collection of The Royal Oldham Hospital

A fabulous series of works by Pat Johnson called Stampede (1989)

🔍 https://t.co/NX62g9kxja

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2021-06-04

Another from our collection for This painting is called
Shoeing by Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–1873)

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2021-06-03

Charles S. Ricketts (1866–1931)
Don Juan in Hell
Oil on canvas
Gift from G. Higgins

🐴

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2021-06-03

The theme for is horses, and we've decided to go to the races! 🏇🏇🏇
Arrival at Epsom Downs for Derby Week, Alfred Munnings
Cheltenham Races, British School
Dieppe Races, Walter Sickert
Back from the Races, Jack Butler Yeats

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If you like, neigh, LOVE horses, there's no better place to delve through the collections of than .

Our Lyndsay thinks that these Fighting Stallions by George Stubbs are the mane event. 🐴

(🤪sorry)

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https://t.co/nTXCEFUyYy

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This week's is all about 🐎

I feel like we have a lot of horses in our collection...
🤔💭

Lucy Elizabeth Kemp-Welch (1869–1958)
The Waterway (c.1914)
Oil on Canvas
Purchased, 1938

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Anyone can join in today's

Browse through the public collections available on 's website & share works you love on today's theme...

🐎#Horses 🐎

Here's a beauty

The Drinking Place (1900)
Stanhope Alexander Forbes

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