Artists' Dorset
Enjoy a beautiful gallery full of the Museum’s superb collections of paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, textiles, and fine and decorative art.
An important part of the gallery is dedicated to the sculptor Elisabeth Frink who lived and worked in Dorset for many years. Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough and George Romney are here too, alongside works by Cornish artist Alfred Wallis and Dorset-born sculptor Alfred Stevens. Get to know Chaldon Herring’s 1920s and 1930s creative community, including novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner and her partner, poet Valentine Ackland. Then marvel at the beauty of men’s waistcoats from the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
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Whats Inside
Discover Elisabeth Frink
30 sculptures and over 100 prints and drawings, from a career that spanned over 40 years. All Elisabeth Frink works were provided to Dorset Museum in accordance with the wishes of the artist’s late son, Lin Jammet.
The Art Space
Nestled inside the Artists’ Dorset gallery, this room offers opportunities to explore our prints, drawings and watercolours and textile items more closely, as well as special art workshops. The space is only open when there is an exhibition or workshop.
Highlights
1783
Rebecca Steward (1766-1859)
Thomas Beach (1783-1806) Oil on canvas…
1920s
Fishing Boat with Two Masts and Yellow Sails
Alfred Wallis (1855-1942) Oil on cardboard…
1920
The Undercliff, White Nothe, Dorset
Catherine Ouless (1879-1961) Oil on canvas…
1940s
Dorset Quarrymen, Three Workers
Alfred Palmer (1877-1951) Oil on canvas…
Date unknown
East Stoke Mill, Dorset
Frederick William Newton Whitehead (1853-1938) Oil on canvas…
1768
Thomas Rackett the Younger (1756-1840)
George Romney (1734-1802) Oil on canvas…
1930s
John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) AD
Gertrude Powys painted sensitive portraits of her siblings and other artists and writers who were part of the Chaldon Herring community. In this painting she…
Late 19th century
Watercolours of Dorset landscapes
Henry Joseph Moule The first curator of Dorset Museum and a friend of Thomas Hardy, Henry Moule regularly went out into the countryside surrounding Dorchester…
