Is it on display?
We’re refreshing many of our major displays. By moving pictures and sculptures around and putting new works on display, you’ll have more opportunities to explore our rich historic art collection in new ways.
Discover hidden gems, rarely shown out of storage before. Catch up with some familiar favourites returning to the gallery after appearances in major international exhibitions. Enjoy some of the most significant contemporary artworks we’ve acquired in recent years. And see some fabulous works on loan to the gallery from around the country.
Check here for suggestions of new things to see and for details of temporary room closures as we’re making these changes.
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Closure of gallery 10
On Thursday 23rd May Gallery 10 will be closed from 12pm in readiness for the reopening later in the evening of galleries 11 and 12 for the exhibition Home, Land and Sea: Art in the Netherlands 1600-1800.
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From 19 April 2013: Dresses from the Gallery of Costume collection on display with our late Victorian paintings
A beautiful gold pleated Delphos dress designed by Mariano Fortuny c1908-12 and a fashionable Teagown from 1892 are displayed alongside paintings by Leighton, Moore and Burne Jones. The dresses, which feature soft pleated fabrics in delicate tones of gold and orange, evoke the classical draperies depicted by late Victorian artists.
To see more of our fashion collections visit the Gallery of Costume.
Or, visit the costume collection online.
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Gallery closure
Gallery 10 will be closed for a private function from 5pm-7pm on the 18th April.
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Pre-raphaelite paintings returning to display in 2013
Over the past 2 years some of the Gallery’s most famous Pre-Raphaelite paintings have been out on loan for major exhibitions elsewhere. This year they make a welcome return to our Pre-Raphaelite Gallery.
In February look out for:
- Work by Ford Madox Brown
- Autumn Leaves by John Everett Millais
- The Hireling Shepherd by William Holman Hunt
In June look out for:
- The Shadow of Death by William Holman Hunt
- The Scapegoat by William Holman Hunt
- The Light of the World by William Holman Hunt
- Astarte Syriaca by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
New look for 18th century display featuring Raqib Shaw
The display Face and Place: Portraiture and Landscape in the 18th century in Gallery 1 has had a stunning make over to tie in with the current Raqib Shaw exhibition. The highlight of the new display is Raqib Shaw’s dazzling painting After George Stubbs which hangs opposite the original painting that inspired it, George Stubbs’ Cheetah and Stag with Two Indians. The new display also features works which have come out of store, including Gainsborough’s Landscape with Figures and Joseph Wright of Derby’s portrait of Thomas Day.
Other works by Raqib Shaw can be seen around the collections displays during the exhibition.
Breaking Glass – suffragette material on display 5 March – 17 April 2013
On 3rd April 1913 three seemingly ordinary Edwardian women turned vigilante, smashing the glass on paintings in Manchester Art Gallery, surprising guards and causing a commotion in the fight for universal suffrage. 100 years later Wonder Women: Radical Manchester commemorates that bold moment and in a series of connected events shines a spotlight on other unsung Manchester change makers, past and present. To coincide with this programme of events we will be displaying a selection of suffragette material from our collections in the Victorian galleries, where 7 of the paintings that were attacked are also on display. Look out for the original Women’s Social and Political Union badges, sash and flag, and other items in Gallery 8. Find out more about the suffragette attack on Manchester Art Gallery.
Paintings going out on loan 2013
The following paintings will be coming off display to go out on loan to major international exhibitions. They will be replaced temporarily with other works from the collection.
May - Rue de Voisins, Camille Pissarro, 1969.67
July - Vivien, Frederick Sandys, 1925.70
August - Now for the Painter, Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1947.507
Will it be on display?
We make changes to the displays when works of art are loaned out to other museums and galleries, for conservation or when we want to make room to show you something new.
If you’re coming to the Gallery to see a particular favourite, please always remember to telephone in advance to check if it is on display.
Tel: 0161 235 8888
This page was last updated 15 April 2013.
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