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University Art Collection6
Brotherton Collection2
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections2

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Kirkstall1
Leeds1
West Yorkshire1

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Wright, Austin2
Burns, Robert (1759-1796)1
Burt, Ramsay1
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille1
Cotterell, John1
Jones, Edward Thomas1
Lawson, Fred1
Lyons, Michael1
Miers, John (1756-1821)1

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Landscape: Isle of Man
Painting

Landscape: Isle of Man

Jones, Edward Thomas (1868-1946)

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A landscape painter who lived and worked in Leeds, Edward Thomas Jones was sometimes known as ‘the policeman artist’. He was also the Sergeant-Mace of the City of Leeds (the Mayor’s Mace-bearer)...

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Pencil portrait of Jim Kingdon. Kirkstall.1948.
Archive Art Item

"Jim Kingdon. Kirkstall.1948."

1948

Pencil portrait titled, "Jim Kin(g)don, Kirkstall, 1948." Signed J.A.

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Rabbit skin
Archive Art Piece

"Rabbit skins"

Frederick Lawson

c.1927

Charcoal drawing of a rack built outside a Gypsy Traveller wagon to hang rabbits that had been hunted/killed. Labelled, "Rabbit skins [indecipherable word- possibly location]."

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Sculpture

Lenten Cover

Lyons, Michael (1943-2019)

1979

Lyons was born in Bilston in Staffordshire and studied at Wolverhampton College of Art and the University of Newcastle. He was Head of Sculpture at Manchester Metropolitan University from 1989-93. Unt...

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Figures: Flamborough Head Part 1
Sculpture

Figures: Flamborough Head Part 1

Wright, Austin (1911-1997)

1962

This sculpture was commissioned for the Michael Sadler Building during Wright’s tenure as Gregory Fellow in Sculpture at the University. It was moved in 2009 due to building work and relocated to th...

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Sculpture

Figures: Flamborough Head Part 2

Wright, Austin (1911-1997)

1962

This sculpture was commissioned for the Michael Sadler Building during Wright’s tenure as Gregory Fellow in Sculpture at the University. It was moved in 2009 due to building work and relocated to th...

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Bench in the Park
Painting

Bench in the Park

Burt, Ramsay (1953-)

1975

After art school in Southport, Burt came to study at the University of Leeds in 1972. He remembers that Fine Art teaching then was very disciplined: students were taught to paint traditionally and did...

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Landscape with Cottage and Windmill
Painting

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Silhouette of Robert Burns

Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Miers, John (1756-1821); Cotterell, John

1787

Silhouette painted on paper of Robert Burns. The words 'Mr Burns, Kilmarnock, 1787' are written in ink under the image. The silhouette is in a rosewood frame with a metal hanging ring. The frame has ...

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