Astley Cheetham Art Gallery
Astley Cheetham Art Gallery
Trinity Street
Stalybridge
Lancashire
SK15 2BN
England
Website
www.tameside.gov.uk/museumsandgalleries/astleycheetham.html
astley.cheetham@tameside.gov.uk
Telephone
0161 338 6767
Fax
0161 303 8289
This small gallery is home to the Astley Cheetham Art Collection. Selections from the collection are displayed twice a year alongside a programme of temporary exhibitions of North west Artists
Venue Type:
Gallery
Built as a gift to the town of Stalybridge by John Frederick Cheetham in 1901, the gallery orginally opened as a lecture theatre. Cheetham bequeathed his collection of paintings to the town in 1932 and the space became an art gallery. The collection includes Italian paintings from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and works by British artists such as David Cox and Burne-Jones. The collection has grown through gifts of twentieth century works from the Contemporary Arts Society and the National Art Collections Fund. It also includes works by renowned local artists such as Harry Rutherford.
Collection details
Decorative and Applied Art, Fine Art
Key artists and exhibits
- Master of the Strauss : Madonna c1390
- David Cox: A Road by a Common c1850
- Edward Burne-Jones: St Nicolas c1880, Head of a Princess c1880
- Marcus Gheerhardts: Portrait of a Lady c1625
- Duncan Grant: The Harbour, Kings Lynn, 1932
- George Frederick Watts: Sir Perceval c1880
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