Discover Manchester Art Gallery Collections Manchester Trail
First floor
We hope you enjoyed
this gallery trail.
Discover
To find out more about
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Galleries
our collections you can:
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Manchester
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Lowry and
Pick up a free audioguide from
Valette
Gallery 10
our information desk in the
Art Gallery
atrium.
Buy a copy of Up Close, a guide
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to our collections, on sale in the
gallery shop for £4.95.
Gallery 5
Gallery 6
Gallery 7
Or just ask a member of our
Gallery 3
Gallery 4
Manchester Trail
staff. They’ll be happy to help.
Gallery 8
Gallery 2
Gallery 1
Ground floor
Three floors. 21 rooms. Over 2,000 items on
display spanning over six centuries. No wonder our
collection is so renowned.
If you want to find out more about Manchester and
Manchester Art Gallery
Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3JL
its artistic heritage, this short Manchester highlights
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trail picks out six works in our collection which
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relate to art and design in the city. You can visit all
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the works in around half an hour.
We suggest you start your tour in the ground floor
Manchester Gallery, off the entrance hall.
Piccadilly Gardens
The Good Samaritan
Lawrence Stephen Lowry
George Frederick Watts
Manchester Gallery. Ground floor.
Gallery 3. Victorian Galleries. First Floor.
This painting is part of the Changing Views
This painting was presented to the people of
section of the Manchester Gallery. Piccadilly
Manchester by the artist. Watts made the gift
Gardens is one of Manchester’s main public
after being inspired by the actions of Thomas
spaces. Lowry’s painting shows the gardens
Wright, a local foundry worker with a large
revamped after heavy bombing in World War II.
family to support, who spent much of his spare
The area was radical y designed in 2001–2002
time visiting prisoners and caring for them on
and looks very different today.
release. The painting was hung in the old Town
Copyright Lowry Estate Office.
Hall, and was meant as a moral example to
Mancunians.
Othello, the Moor of Venice
Albert Square, Manchester
James Northcote
Pierre Adolphe Valette
Manchester Gallery. Ground floor.
Gallery 10. Lowry and Valette Gallery.
This striking painting can be found in the Faces
First floor.
section of the Manchester Gallery. The picture
Adolphe Valette was a French artist who created
was the first ever work bought (in 1827) by the
a remarkable series of impressionistic paintings of
Royal Manchester Institution, which became
Edwardian Manchester. This atmospheric picture,
Manchester Art Gallery. The subject is the
painted in 1910, shows the Albert Memorial and
celebrated black actor Ira Aldridge in his role as
other statues in Albert Square, and part of the
Shakespeare’s Othello, which he had performed
soot-blackened Town Hall. A horse-drawn cab
to great acclaim at Manchester’s Theatre Royal.
and the newly-invented motor car indicate the
changes to come.
Manchester Town Hall Goblet
Cakebread Street (sunshine after rain)
Engraved by William Florian Pohl
Liam Spencer
Manufactured by Andrew Ker and
Gallery 10. Lowry and Valette Gallery.
Company
First Floor.
Manchester Gallery. Ground Floor.
Liam Spencer is one of the Northwest’s most
This goblet celebrates the completion of
popular contemporary artists. He lived and
Manchester’s magnificent Town Hal in 1877.
worked in Manchester for many years and
Manchester’s short-lived glass industry was at its
this view of Cakebread Street is from a 6th
height at this time. It attracted foreign workers
floor studio he once rented in the local area
like Wilhelm Pohl, a skilled glass engraver from
of Ardwick Green. You can see another of
Bohemia. These workers brought valuable new
Spencer’s paintings in the Manchester Gallery
skills to local manufacturers.
on the ground floor.
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Purchased with financial assistance from
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