Cornish art collection returns home for exhibition
The Bowerman Collection of Newlyn School art has returned to Cornwall for a special exhibition at the Penlee House Gallery and Museum. The collection features 40 paintings depicting 19th-century fishing and rural life before beginning a two-year national tour.
Why it matters
This exhibition preserves and celebrates regional cultural heritage, providing insight into the historical social fabric of Cornwall.
Share Save Add as preferred on Google Jake Wallace South West The Bowerman Collection Stanhope Forbes' work Lighting Up Time is included in the exhibtion Paintings depicting life in Cornwall's fishing and rural communities more than a century ago have gone on display.
The exhibition brings together 40 works from the acclaimed Bowerman Collection of Newlyn School art, a movement of artists who settled in west Cornwall in the late 19th Century.
The works have returned to Cornwall before embarking on a national tour and will be displayed at the Penlee House Gallery and Museum in Penzance until January.
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