Ferens Art Gallery
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Overview
The Ferens Art Gallery's collection of paintings and sculpture spans artistic periods from medieval times to the present day. Strengths of the collection include European Old Masters, portraiture, marine paintings and modern and contemporary British art. Highlights include masterpieces by Frans Hals, Antonio Canaletto, Stanley Spencer, David Hockney, Helen Chadwick and Gillian Wearing. The Gallery has a regular programme of historic and contemporary art exhibitions both touring and from the permanent collection, based in its three large exhibition spaces.
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Location
Ferens Art Gallery, Queen Victoria Square, HULL, East Riding of Yorkshire, HU1 3RA
About the area
Yorkshire’s East Riding is the only one left of a trio of ‘ridings’ which existed up until 1974. The North and West are gone, to be replaced by North, South and West Yorkshires.
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