A collection of paintings on display in Bradford has been added to one of the first regional online galleries.
Under the Yorkshire’s Favourite Paintings scheme, art from galleries around Yorkshire is uploaded onto the internet.
The website was launched earlier this year and public comments have provided an insight into which paintings resonate across the region.
For the summer, a new selection of paintings have been added to the website, all inspired by the season. Six of them are on show at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, the most famous being Charles Conder’s Silver Sands, depicting a summer beach scene.
The other paintings are Café at Rapallo by Walter Bayes; The Abbey Ruins by Philip Connard; The Free Beach by Alfred Daniels; The Garden by Ethel Walker and The Pool by Edward Atkinson Hornel.
New web technology allows website users to zoom in and view more than 100 of the region’s collection of oil paintings up close.
Funded by the Yorkshire Regional Museums Hub, the project has been put together by a group of 30 museums, including Cartwright Hall.
There are said to be more than 10,000 paintings in Yorkshire, but at any one time, some 80 per cent of these are hidden from public view, either in storerooms or public buildings in official use. The Yorkshire’s Favourite Paintings project puts many of these treasures on public display once more.
To view Yorkshire’s 100 favourite paintings go to yorkshiresfavourites.org
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