The Hatton stages a highly-regarded programme of historical, modern and contemporary art exhibitions. Over recent years this programme has included major historical monographs, diverse partnership projects and exciting new commissions from leading contemporary artists. On permanent display is Kurt Schwitters’ Merz Barn, considered by many to be one of the seminal artworks of the twentieth century.
The Hatton’s permanent collection comprises over 3,500 works, ranging from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, and includes works in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. Artists represented in the collection include such diverse and important artists as Francis Bacon, Walter Sickert, Tiburzio Passarotti, John Martin, Patrick Heron, William Roberts, Richard Ansdell, Richard Hamilton and John Graham Lough.
The Hatton Gallery also runs an impressive learning programme involving schools, individuals and community groups. The programme engages participants through a variety of drop-in activities, formal workshops and long-term partnership projects.
The Hatton Gallery was founded in 1925 in honour of Professor Richard George Hatton, professor of what was then the King Edward VII School of Art, Armstrong College, Durham University. Following its formal constitution, the Hatton maintained its relationship with the School of Art, which subsequently became the Department of Fine Art, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
The permanent collection had its origins in a small collection of 19th Century art works which were housed in the old School of Art; it included Portrait of Cozens Way, by Alphonse Legros. In 1919 the Charlton Bequest, made by Charles Frederick Charlton, expanded the collection considerably. This consisted of watercolours, drawings, prints and oil paintings made by the mid Victorian artist, John Charlton, his son, Hugh Charlton and the turn of the century watercolourist, William Henry Charlton. In the 1920s, these works were passed on to the Hatton, and were complemented by donations, from Professor Hatton, of Indian Miniatures and Burgkmair’s Triumphal Procession.
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