The Art Gallery

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Our World Through Art
Gallery 6, New Walk Museum & Art Gallery

'Our World Through Art' displays a regularly changing selection from Leicester's art collections featuring works from the 16th - 21st centuries.

The exhibition explores the different ways that art has celebrated our changing world and displays works by Modern and Old Masters including William Hogarth, Joseph Wright of Derby, Camille Pisarro, L.S. Lowry and Francis Bacon.

The Curator of Fine Art often conducts tours and profiles of the artists featured in the collection, visit the events page for further details.

If you wish to see a specific artwork, due to the changing displays and works on loan to other institutions and exhibitions, please contact the museum (0116 225 4900) in advance of your visit.

BBC - Your Paintings

Leicester Arts & Museums Service is delighted to work with the BBC and Public Catalogue Foundation on Your Paintings.

Your Paintings is a website which aims to show the entire UK national collection of oil paintings, the stories behind the paintings, and where to see them for real. It is made up of paintings from thousands of museums and other public institutions around the country.

There are an estimated 200,000 oil paintings in the UK's national collection, with the first 63,000 paintings already on the Your Paintings website. These include over 700 oil paintings in Leicester's Fine Art collection, featuring works by Edgar Degas, Laurence Stephen Lowry and Francis Bacon.

To view works from our art collections visit the Your Paintings website.

Public Catalogue Foundation Prints

Leicester Arts and Museums are delighted to participate in Public Catalogue Foundation Prints. This new scheme offers you the opportunity to buy prints of some of the paintings catalogued by the project, including at present 374 works from the Leicester Arts and Museums oil painting collections.

The online shop provides an opportunity to select your chosen painting from our collection and order a reproduction print, select a frame or perhaps just purchase a postcard or greetings card of your favourite painting.

Profits generated from sales are shared between the PCF and the participating painting collections and where paintings are still in copyright also with artists or their estates. The PCF’s share of profits goes towards sustaining its charitable objectives.