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The Ruskin Museum is a small local museum in Coniston, Cumbria, northern England. It was established in 1901 by W. G. Collingwood, an artist and antiquarian who had worked as secretary to art critic John Ruskin. The museum is both a memorial to Ruskin and a local museum covering the history and heritage of Coniston Water and the Lake District.
The Director of The Ruskin is Professor Sandra Kemp. [3] Prior to 2019, The Ruskin – Library, Museum and Research Centre was known as the Ruskin Library. The Ruskin is home to The Ruskin Whitehouse Collection, the world's largest assemblage of works by artist, writer, environmentalist and social thinker John Ruskin (1819–1900), and his circle.
The Slade School of Fine Art relocated to the Ruskin for the duration of the Second World War. [citation needed] It was renamed Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in 1945, and later Ruskin School of Art in 2014. [citation needed] Ruskin School of Art remained at the Ashmolean until 1975 when it moved to 74 High Street. In October 2015, the ...
The Ruskin Pottery was an English art pottery studio founded in 1898 by Edward R. Taylor, the first principal of both the Lincoln School of Art [1] and the Birmingham School of Art, to be run by his son, William Howson Taylor, formerly a student there.
The Ruskin Galleries was a private art gallery located in what is now Chamberlain Square in Birmingham, England between 1925 and 1940. It provided a venue for the exhibition of modern art at a time when Birmingham's other major artistic institutions were marked by a high degree of artistic conservativism.
The Ruskin Monument is a memorial to John Ruskin located on the edge of Derwentwater in the English Lakes at Friars' Crag, Keswick, Cumbria. It was erected on 6 October 1900, shortly after his death, largely through the efforts of Hardwicke Rawnsley. [2] [3] The monument consists of a monolithic block of Borrowdale stone.
The 2,112-square-foot property at 901 N. Porter Ave., which is at the northwest corner of Franklin and Porter, was built as Wichita’s Firehouse No. 7 in 1922.
The museum has over 200 cars [3] spread over four galleries. [4] Gallery 1 showcases cars built during the 1890s & 1900s, Gallery 2 features cars from the 1910s to 1930s, Gallery 3 the 1930s through to the 1950s, and Gallery 4 displays cars from 1950 onward. [4] Gallery 4 also includes race cars. Each gallery is linked by a themed "street ...