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The Whitworth is an art gallery in Manchester, England, containing over 60,000 items in its collection. The gallery is located in Whitworth Park and is part of the University of Manchester . In 2015, the Whitworth reopened after it was transformed by a £15 million capital redevelopment that doubled its exhibition spaces, restored period ...
Whitworth Park is a public park in south Manchester, England, and the location of the Whitworth Art Gallery. To the north are the University of Manchester's student residences known as "Toblerones". It was historically in Chorlton on Medlock but is now included in the Moss Side ward.
The Whitworth Building is a grade II* listed building on Oxford Road and Burlington Street in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, England. It has been listed since 18 December 1963 [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and is part of the University of Manchester .
Whitworth Gallery: 1894–1900 The front of the art gallery is in red brick on a plinth, with terracotta dressings, a sill band, corbel tables, a moulded cornice, a parapet, and green slate roofs, and is in free Jacobean style.
The statue in Whitworth Park commemorates Edward VII and is by John Cassidy. It has a rectangular plan with a base, a stepped and moulded plinth, and a pedestal, all in granite. On the pedestal is a bronze statue of the king, standing and holding the sceptre and the orb. [10] [11] II: Faculty of Economic and Social Studies and railings
The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester held a retrospective (which toured) in 1977. In the 1960s and 1970s, her work was largely conceptual with her Irish ancestry contributing to the subject of many works depicting the political situation in Northern Ireland .
John Ralston (1789–1833) was a Scottish artist who spent most of his life and career in Manchester, England.He was primarily a marine and landscape painter, but his best-known works depict the city's medieval and early modern architecture before its demolition and replacement during the Industrial Revolution.
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester: The Traveller: 1868: Manchester Art Gallery: Elijah and the Widow's Son: 1868 (watercolour) Victoria and Albert Museum: May Memories: 1869: private collection: The Finding of Don Juan by Haidee: 1869 (watercolour) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. (See 1869 oil version below) The Finding of Don Juan by ...