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The Enchanted Garden exhibition tours

With Amy Barker, curator of The Enchanted Garden

Historic Event

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Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene, 1864 by SImeon Solomon. © Tate, London 2018 (crop)

Dates

26 September 2018 (historic event)

About

Join exhibition curator Amy Barker for a half an hour introduction to the exhibition themes and highlights. Please note ticket for exhibition is not included in this price, you can purchase these online here or at the Laing shop.

The Enchanted Garden is on show from Saturday 23 June - Sunday 7 October. About the exhibition: 

From the Pre-Raphaelites and French Impressionists to the Bloomsbury Group and 20th century abstraction, artists have taken inspiration directly from the gardens around them. The Enchanted Garden includes works from Claude Monet,  Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Beatrix Potter, Pierre Bonnard, Lucien Pissarro, William Morris, Patrick Heron, Francis Bacon, Stanley Spencer, Vanessa Bell, and Duncan Grant.

This exhibition is curated by the Laing Art Gallery, with generous support from the John Ellerman Foundation. Also supported by the Friends of the Laing Art Gallery, the Finnis Scott Foundation and the Golsoncott Foundation.