Laing Art Gallery

Laing Art Gallery

The Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle Upon Tyne is located on New Bridge Street. It was opened in 1904 and is now managed by Tyne and Wear Museums and sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. In front of the gallery is the Blue Carpet.

The gallery holds oil paintings, watercolours and Newcastle silver. Newcastle was the greatest glass producer in the world c 1800 and enamelled glasses by William Beilby are on display along with ceramics (including Maling pottery), and ontemporary work by up and coming artists. It has a programme of regularly-changing exhibitions and is free entry.

The gallery boasts an extensive collection of paintings by John Martin, including the dramatic "The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah", as well as important works by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Burne-Jones ("Laus Veneris", Holman Hunt ("Isabella and the Pot of Basil"), Ben Nicholson and others. There is also an extensive collection of 18th and 19th century watercolours and drawings, including work by Turner, Cotman etc.

External links

* [http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/laing/ Laing Art Gallery at Tyne and Wear Museums site]


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