Messum's
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Messum's is an art gallery in Bury Street, St. James's, London, with a branch in Marlow, Buckinghamshire.
History
The gallery was founded by David Messum in 1963.[1] The gallery exhibits contemporary art and work by British Impressionist, modern and figurative painters and sculptors. Messum's has promoted the work of the early Newlyn and St Ives painters.
Messum's has staged significant exhibitions of British Impressionism, and in 1985 David Messum's publishing company published British Impressionism: A Garden of Bright Images by Laura Wortley.[2]
In 2012, a proposed development in Cork Street threatened to cause Messum's to move.[3][4]
In 2016, Johnny Messum founded Messums Wiltshire, an art gallery based in the tithe barn at Place Farm, Tisbury, Wiltshire.[5][6]
Artists
Artists who have exhibited at the gallery include William Bowyer, Peter Brown, James Dodds, Rose Hilton, Kurt Jackson,[7] Edward Piper, John Piper[8] and Jeremy Annear.
References
- ^ artLONDON Archived 16 January 2006 at the Wayback Machine, 2005.
- ^ "British Impressionism: A Garden of Bright Images". Pallant House Gallery. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
- ^ "A third of Cork Street's galleries to close". Phaidon. 2012. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
- ^ Batty, David (20 August 2012). "Mayfair's art galleries under threat from developers". The Guardian.
- ^ "Out of Africa and into Messums: UK gallery launches new photography department with vintage prints of Karen Blixen's life in Kenya". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. 10 May 2021. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
- ^ "Messums of London art gallery comes to Harrogate". Great British Life. 26 July 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
- ^ Kurt Jackson — Biography Archived 5 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Musson, John, John and Edward Piper. Country Life, 7 June 2007.