UCL Art Museum

Located at the heart of University College London’s main Bloomsbury campus, the Art Museum is aimed solely at combining or involving art related disciplines for the research and teaching of students and academics associated with the Slade School of Fine Art. It goes further by, through computerisation, ‘combining’ works often separated by hundreds of years from national and international students and masters. These include prints and drawings by Old Master artists such as Dürer, Rembrandt, Turner and Constable, and sculpture and drawings by the celebrated Neo-Classical artist John Flaxman. The collection comprises more than 10,000 works in all media dating from 1490 to the present.

The collection forms a unique archive of art education and even the collecting art as a cultural practice is discussed. As the Slade was the first school to admit women into the life room, a large number of works by female artists are housed in the collection. Artists whose works take pride of place include Gwen John, Dora Carrington, Winifred Knights, Ithel Colquhoun, Diana Cumming, Paula Rego and Anna Maria Pacheco.