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Gustave Courbet once said: ‘Fine art is knowledge made visible.’
Courbet uses a palette knife and a loaded brush for the rugged cliffs and contrasts this with the smoother texture of the grass and the sky.🌊

See this artwork in the Blue Gallery.

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2020-01-18

Tomorrow's Tuesday Talk is about the latest addition to our collection: Ruysdael's 'A Cavalry Travelling through a Wooded Landscape'. 🌲

Join Robert Wenley, our Head of Collections, to learn more about this piece.

Free, no booking required. 11.30am & 1.15pm

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2019-06-10

We are very excited to add this atmospheric painting, ‘A Cavalry traveling through a wooded landscape’, by Salomon Van Ruysdael to our collection 😍

It has never been publicly displayed before, so come and let us know what you think!

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2019-05-29

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Here in Birmingham, we can boast of a fine canal network. But at the Barber we can offer you lakes, rivers and beyond!

From Turner to Dahl (below!), let our pictures transport you to tranquil seas. 💧💦💦

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2019-03-22

All good things must come to an end - and closes in 4 days! Come and see these beautiful drawings from the Royal Collection this weekend before they return home to Windsor Castle.

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2018-09-19

Portrait of Lady Barber in a Landscape, James Jebusa Shannon (1912)

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2017-03-21