FINAL WEEK! Don't miss including skscapes in art you could melt into - like this one by Find artworks by and the Museum's own John Piper all in one perfectly-sized room. https://t.co/Y9L7s0Sz9d

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“To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.”
- John Ruskin.

(Artwork: “Prophecy” by )

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doodling, and listening to John Ruskin.

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The Big Draw was launched in 2000 by the Guild of St George to commemorate John Ruskin. An independent visual literacy charity since 2006, The Big Draw still upholds Ruskin's belief that drawing helps us to understand and see the world more clearly.

https://t.co/9U0nWxVcJK

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The has acquired Thomas Moran's ~1879 watercolor Mount Superior, as viewed from Alta, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah.

It hasn't been publicly exhibited in over 100 years, had been in the collection of John Ruskin.

Goes on view in Fort Worth in August.

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Join world-renowned artist Edmund de Waal and Ruskin-expert, Professor Tim Barringer, for an intimate conversation about their relationship with the ideas of Victorian thinker, John Ruskin.

Tuesday 20 October | 6-7pm | Zoom
Book now: https://t.co/zyi0JpLx3V

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Douglas Pittuck 1911–1993 b. Plumstead, London, artist & teacher, studied under the likes of Eric Ravilious at the Ruskin. He remained an active artist whilst teaching at Barnard Castle School & his impressive mural still graces the east wall of the town’s St Mary’s Parish Hall.

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"There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse & sell a little cheaper, & the people who consider price alone are that person's lawful prey" (attributed to but our webmaster has his doubts! https://t.co/e8OaiDdKS5

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Before I sign off for the week, it's been a joy putting together a brilliant lecture by about Ruskin. Please tune in at 12pm next Thursday to catch it live and thereafter, watch again on YouTube.

https://t.co/ifqwknawit

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Excited to be partnering with for their Artist in Residence opportunity! Over the course of the residency the artist should produce work for the Artists' Village in response to the exhibition Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin.

https://t.co/yvQ1ieue80

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In 1859 he visited France & was also influenced by the critic John Ruskin. Mother of Sisera (1861) & Dancing Girl Resting (1863-4)

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Oct 27, 1857: At Common Room breakfast met, for the first time, John Ruskin. I had a little conversation with him, but not enough to bring out anything characteristic or striking in him. His appearance was rather disappointing, a general feebleness of expression, with no (1/2)

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On Now - Ruskin: Museum of the Near Future

Exhibition | Free Entry | 10.00 - 16.00 | Mon-Fri | Until 25 Nov



Email the-ruskin.ac.uk to join our mailing list, find out first about our programme, and how you can get involved.

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Estudio de un Martín pescador.
Acuarela y grafito sobre papel.
John Ruskin. 1871.

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A favorite Alluvius Ruskin. ✨

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Today's is 'Study of a piece of Brick' by Ruskin advocated regularly drawing natural forms as a means of understanding the character of nature. The weathered & mossy surface of the brick provided a lesson in observation to Ruskin’s students.

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Louisa Anne Beresford, marquesa de Waterford (1818-1891). Además de ser modelo de John Everett Millais, Louisa Anne fue artista aficionada, dedicándose especialmente a la acuarela y formándose con Dante Gabriel Rossetti y John Ruskin.

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Oct. 27, 1857: At Common Room breakfast met, for the first time, John Ruskin. I had a little conversation with him, but not enough to bring out anything characteristic or striking in him. His appearance was rather disappointing, a general feebleness of expression, ... (1/2)

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'Coast Scene near Dunbar' (1847),
John Ruskin. 1819
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

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Alpine landscape - Cascade de la Folie, Chamonix by John Ruskin. Prints and canvases available from https://t.co/J36woqi69F

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