Plymouth Art Gallery

Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery possesses a significant collection of some 750 paintings, 3000 watercolours and drawings, over 5000 prints and small collections of sculpture and miniatures. The gallery opened to the public in 1910 and was severely damaged during WWII and the interior of the gallery was refurbished in 1954. Its collection covers the 16th to 20th centuries and also include items from a wide range of European schools, although the majority are British dating from the 19th and 20th centuries.

The area has a rich indigenous artistic legacy which is reflected in the collection with examples by earlier artist who include Joshua Reynolds, James Northcote, Samuel Prout, Charles Locke Eastlake and Benjamin Robert Haydon.

With its neighbouring county being Cornwall, there is a large presence of work by artists of the 19th century Newlyn School as well as good 20th century collections including works by the St. Ives Group and the Camden Town Group. The St. Ives School is represented by Alfred Wallis, Peter Lanyon, Alexander Mackenzie and Denis Mitchell. Plymouth also boats the largest collection of work by Beryl Cook win a public gallery with her having resided in the city for many years. A recent acquisition is a fine Plymouth street scene by Reginald Brill.