Crawford Art Gallery
The Crawford Art Gallery (Irish: Áiléar Crawford)[3] is a public art gallery and museum in the city of Cork, Ireland. Known informally as the Crawford,[4] it was designated a 'National Cultural Institution' in 2006.[5] It is "dedicated to the visual arts, both historic and contemporary", and welcomed 265,438 visitors in 2019.[2] The gallery is named after William Horatio Crawford. [6]
History
The Crawford is based in the centre of Cork in what used to be the Cork Customs House, built in 1724.[7][8] The Customs House became home to the Royal Cork Institution (RCI) in the 1830s,[9] and the RCI was involved in opening the Cork School of Design on the site in 1850.[10] In the early 1880s, the Cork School of Design was extended with funds and patronage from members of the Crawford family, who were local landowners and brewers.[11] For this reason the school was renamed as the Crawford School of Art in 1885.[11] In 1979, the art school transferred to another site, and the Crawford building used primarily as a gallery and museum. The museum buildings were substantially extended in 2000.[8]
Collections
Among the earliest acquisitions in the gallery's collection are casts of classical Greek and Roman statues by Antonio Canova. These were brought to Cork from the Vatican in 1818.[12] The Royal Cork Institution acquired these works from the Society of Fine Arts in Cork, who had been given the casts by the Prince Regent (later George IV of the United Kingdom).[13] He in turn had received them from Pope Pius VII, who had commissioned Antonio Canova to make a set of plasters from statues in the Vatican. Among the works are casts of the Belvedere Torso, Apollo Belvedere and Laocoön and His Sons.[14]
Due to the gallery's association with the Cork School of Art (later known as the Crawford College of Art and Design), some items in the museum collection are by staff and students of the school. These include works by James Brenan (who was headmaster of the school from 1860 to 1889)[15] and students such as Henry Jones Thaddeus and William Gerard Barry.[16]
Other items in the collection include works by sculptors such as John Hogan and Eilis O'Connell,[17] stained-glass artists like Harry Clarke and Evie Hone,[18] painters including William Orpen (a student of James Brenan),[19] Jack B. Yeats, and Nano Reid,[16][20] as well as photographer Bob Carlos Clarke.[21]
The gallery hosts education and outreach programmes,[22] and manages temporary and travelling exhibitions.[13][23]
Redevelopment
In March 2023 planning permission was granted for the redevelopment of the gallery. If completed as proposed, the redevelopment would increase the size of the gallery by 1,919 square metres (20,660 sq ft) and involve the refurbishment and reconfiguration of 3,641 square metres (39,190 sq ft) of existing space.[24] The works, which include the reorientation of the gallery to face Emmet Place,[25] are scheduled to begin in Autumn 2024.[26]
See also
References
- ^ "About the Permanent Collection". Official Website. Crawfordartgallery.ie. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
- ^ a b "Popular Cork gallery breaks record for visitor numbers". Echo Live. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
- ^ "Crawford Art Gallery Cork / Áiléar Crawford Chorcaigh". Official Website. Crawfordartgallery.ie. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ "Cork Profile – Artist and lecturer in CIT Crawford School of Art". Cork Independent. 15 September 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ "Crawford Art Gallery Service Level Agreement" (PDF). Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. April 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 December 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ "Crawford Art Gallery". Cork City Council. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
- ^ "Cultural Institutions > Crawford Art Gallery". Citizensinformation.ie. Citizens Information Board. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ a b "Crawford Gallery Extension, Cork". Architecture of Cork City. Archiseek. 2009. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ "Visual arts in Cork". Cork Past and Present. Cork City Libraries. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ "History of the Gallery". Official Website. Crawfordartgallery.ie. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ a b "Beamish & Crawford brewers left their mark on Cork". Irish Examiner. 27 October 2015. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ "Artists Bio – Antonio Canova" (PDF). Official Website. Crawfordartgallery.ie. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ a b "The OPW and the Crawford Art Gallery welcomes 'The Crawford at the Castle' Exhibition to Dublin Castle". Office of Public Works. 19 October 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ "The Fig Reveal". crawfordartgallery.ie. 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
- ^ "Collection – Painting – James Brenan". Official Site. Crawfordartgallery.ie. Archived from the original on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ a b "Permanent Collection – Painting". Official Site. Crawfordartgallery.ie. Archived from the original on 13 July 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ "Collection – Sculpture". Official Site. Crawfordartgallery.ie. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ "Collection – Stained Glass". Official Site. Crawfordartgallery.ie. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ "William Orpen's The Signing of Peace, Versailles, 1919". Royal Irish Academy. 21 April 2015. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ "A Corkman's philanthropy". The Irish Times. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ "Crawford Art Gallery first public gallery in Ireland to acquire Bob Carlos Clarke photographs". Irish Examiner. 4 August 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ "Education archive – The Art of Inclusion 13 September–26 October 2013". Official Site. Crawfordartgallery.ie. 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ "Exhibition showcases Cork's place in the Arts and Crafts movement". Irish Examiner. 16 November 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ "Crawford Art Gallery Reimagined". Crawford Art Gallery. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
- ^ O'Byrne, Ellie (19 March 2023). "€29m Crawford revamp 'single biggest investment in Cork culture'". Irish Examiner.
- ^ Hilliard, Mark (15 March 2023). "Plans approved for redevelopment of Cork's Crawford Art Gallery". Irish Times.
External links
- Crawford Art Gallery website
- v
- t
- e
- 126 Artist-run Gallery
- Arigna Mining Experience
- Battle of Aughrim Visitor Centre
- Castlerea Railway Museum
- Cavan and Leitrim Railway
- Connemara Heritage and History Centre
- Custom House Studios and Gallery
- Clew Bay Heritage Centre
- Galway City Museum
- Glengowla Mines
- Hamilton Gallery
- James Mitchell Geology Museum
- The Model, Sligo
- National Famine Museum & Strokestown Park
- National Museum of Ireland – Country Life
- Roscommon County Museum
- Sligo County Museum
- Allihies Copper Mine Museum
- Clare Museum
- Cobh Heritage Centre
- Cobh Museum
- Cork Butter Museum
- Cork Public Museum
- Craggaunowen
- Crawford Art Gallery
- Garda College Museum and Visitor Centre
- Hunt Museum
- Jameson Experience, Midleton
- Kerry County Museum
- Lewis Glucksman Gallery
- Limerick City Museum
- Ormston House
- The People's Museum of Limerick
- Tipperary Museum of Hidden History
- Waterford County Museum
- Waterford Museum of Treasures
- Arklow Maritime Museum
- Avondale House
- Battle of the Boyne Visitor Centre
- Brú na Bóinne
- Carlow County Museum
- County Carlow Military Museum
- County Museum Dundalk
- Dunamaise Arts Centre
- Dwyer–McAllister Cottage
- Enniscorthy Castle
- Highlanes Gallery
- Horse Museum (Irish National Stud)
- Irish Agricultural Museum
- Irish National Heritage Park
- Luan Gallery
- Museum of Style Icons
- National 1798 Rebellion Centre
- National Science Museum at Maynooth
- Russborough House
- The Steam Museum
- Wicklow Gaol