{"id":86,"date":"2010-04-05T12:09:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T12:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2019-08-29T17:22:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T17:22:35","slug":"whitworth-art-gallery-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/whitworth-art-gallery-manchester\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitworth Art Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-447\" href=\"https:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/whitworth-art-gallery-manchester\/whitworthcolour2-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-447\" title=\"Whitworth Art Gallery\" src=\"http:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/WhitworthColour21.jpg\" alt=\"Whitworth Art Gallery\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/WhitworthColour21.jpg 800w, https:\/\/fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/WhitworthColour21-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Whitworth Art Gallery<\/strong> is an art gallery in Manchester,  England,  containing about 55,000 items in its collection. The museum is located  south of the Manchester University campus, in Whitworth Park.<\/p>\n<p>It was founded by Robert  Darbishire with a donation from Sir Joseph Whitworth in 1889, as <em>The Whitworth Institute  and Park<\/em>. The first building was completed in 1908.<sup> <\/sup>In 1958 the gallery became part of the University of Manchester<\/p>\n<p>The Whitworth has notable collections of watercolours, sculptures,  wallpapers and textiles. The gallery focuses on modern artists, and the  art collections include works by Henry  Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Ford Madox Brown, Eduardo Paolozzi, Francis Bacon, William  Blake, David Hockney, L.  S. Lowry, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo  Picasso, and a fine collection of works by J.M.W. Turner.<\/p>\n<p>One of its most famous works is the marble sculpture <em>Genesis<\/em> (1929\u20131931) by Sir Jacob Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday 26 April 2003, three paintings\u2014Van Gogh&#8217;s <em>The  Fortification of Paris with Houses<\/em>, Picasso&#8217;s <em>Poverty<\/em> and  Gauguin&#8217;s <em>Tahitian Landscape<\/em> &#8212; were stolen from the gallery.<sup> <\/sup>They were later found rolled up in a by a nearby public toilet and were  subsequently put back on display.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Whitworth Art Gallery is an art gallery in Manchester, England, containing about 55,000 items in its collection. The museum is located south of the Manchester University campus, in Whitworth Park. It was founded by Robert Darbishire with a donation from Sir Joseph Whitworth in 1889, as The Whitworth Institute and Park. 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