Cookham, Berkshire, UK – The Stanley Spencer Gallery is proud to present “Spencer’s War: The Art of Shipbuilding on the Clyde” on view at the gallery until January 15th 2012. The exhibition includes six oil paintings from the famous Shipbuilding on …
Archive of World War II Codebreaker Alan Turing Preserved by National Heritage Memorial Fund
LONDON (AP).- Papers relating to codebreaker and computer pioneer Alan Turing will go to a British museum after the National Heritage Memorial Fund stepped in to help buy them for the nation. The government-backed fund said Friday it had donated more t…
Powis Castle Acquires John Singer Sargent Charcoal Portrait with Help from the Art Fund
LONDON.- A unique portrait by celebrated American artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) has been bought by Powis Castle. Portrait of the Hon. Violet Lane Fox, Baroness Darcy de Knayth, Countess of Powis c.1910-1914, by Sargent was bought with the help…