Current Exhibitions
Watts Gallery is closed for Restoration until late 2010.
However there are a number of touring exhibitions opening from November in the UK and USA.
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See below for details of touring exhibitions that have already opened.
There is an Information Point & Shop open on the estate during restoration. Click here to see its opening hours.
Watts in the City -
G. F. Watts: Victorian Visionary
Guildhall Art Gallery, London
11 November 2008 – 26 April 2009
Retrospective of one of Britain’s greatest and most original artists. Drawn from the Watts Gallery collection, more than eighty paintings, drawings and sculptures will be returning to London for public display for the first time in 100 years.
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Watts in the City -
G. F. Watts: Parables in Paint
St Paul’s Cathedral, London
1 December 2008 – 30 July 2009
Watts did not possess a conventional religious faith yet he retained a sense of the profound importance of spirituality. The exhibition explores the religious and spiritual dimension of his art and the way that this underpinned his sense of social responsibility.
Watts in the City -
Two Major Works by Watts in the Nave of St Paul’s Cathedral
1 December 2008 – April 2009
Time, Death and Judgement and Peace and Goodwill will return to the Nave of the great cathedral some 100 years since they were first hung.
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Victorian Artists in Photographs:
G F Watts and his World
Selections from The Rob Dickins Collection
The Forbes Galleries, Fifth Avenue, NY
7 November 2008 - 3 January 2009
"Fascinating Stuff"
Frank Whitford, Critical List, Sunday Times
A remarkable exhibition of photographs of the Victorian art world, many exhibited for the first time. These include images of the leading artists of the day and their studios, including Edward Burne-Jones, George Cruickshank, William Holman Hunt, Frederic Lord Leighton, John Everett Millais, William Morris and Dante Gabrielle Rossetti, but also the artists’ models, wives and families. It also includes rare images of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and the principal cultural figures of the day such as Alfred Lord Tennyson, Charles Dickens and John Ruskin. The exhibition promises to bring G. F. Watts’s world and artistic circle to life.
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