LONDON.- Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum has acquired an important topographical drawing by celebrated artist Dora Carrington (1893 – 1932), who attended Bedford High School as a child. Bedford Market (1911) was acquired at auction for £17,290, of which Art Fund members gave £5,763, the V&A/MLA Purchase Grant Fund contributed £5,544 and the Trustees of the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery gave the remainder. It is the only known work by Carrington that takes Bedford as its subject and is a rare depiction of her early life in the town. Drawn in the linear style that she developed at the Slade, the detailed, atmospheric drawing depicts the town’s busy market at the turn of the century. Today, the market is still held in the same location. Over the last few years the Gallery has actively sought to form a collection of important works by Dora Carrington. These include the oil paintings Mrs Box (1919) a