Bicentenary Press Kit by Ellie Manwell

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PRESS INFORMATION

CONTENTS About Dulwich Picture Gallery

The 2011 Bicentenary Programme

Exhibitions Special Events

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Education Programme

Partners

Images

HISTORY OF THE GALLERY Dulwich Picture Gallery sprung out of one of the most successful art dealerships in London during the late eighteenth-century - the partnership of Frenchman, Noel Desenfans (1745 - 1807), and his younger Swiss friend, the painter, Sir Francis Bourgeois, RA (1756 - 1811). The enterprise appears to have been launched by the dowry of Desenfan’s wife, Margaret Morris. In 1790 the pair were commissioned by Stanislaus Augustus, King of Poland, to form a Royal Collection from scratch. They devoted the next five years exclusively to this task during which time Poland was gradually partitioned by its more powerful neighbours leading in 1795 to its complete disappearance as an independent state. The King was forced to abdicate, which left the two dealers with a Royal Collection on their hands. Bourgeois and Desenfans strove to resolve their situation in two ways. In private they sold individual works from their Polish stock and replaced them with further important purchases. In public they sought a home for their “Royal Collection” approaching, amongst others, the Tsar of Russia and the British Government. When it became clear that they would not be able to sell the collection in its entirety, they began to think to whom they might bequeath it. This became more pressing after Desenfan’s death in 1807 which left Bourgeois as the sole owner. At that date there was no National Gallery, so the key candidate was the British Museum. However, Bourgeois found its trustees too ‘arbitrary’ and ‘aristocratic’ and so he decided to leave his collection to Dulwich College instead, despite him having no obvious connection with the school. More important than the destination was the stipulation in the will that the paintings should be made available for the ‘inspection of the public’. So it was that Dulwich Picture Gallery - England’s first purpose-built public art gallery - was founded by the terms of Sir Francis Bourgeois’s will upon his death in 1811. Bourgeois and Desenfans reflected the taste and market opportunities of their time by concentrating on European painting of the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries, the period sometimes known as the ‘Age of Baroque’. Their taste was broad with a strong representation of all the major national styles of painting - Italian, Spanish, French, Flemish and Dutch. The great collection of English painting at Dulwich is largely due to two later donations. The group of Linley family portraits was given in 1835 and the Fairfax Murray Gift (also in the main comprising English portraits) in 1911. During the period 1600 - 1750 European art was at its most rich and most diverse. This was an age when artists were working for radically different societies and did so with astonishing individualism and experimental audacity. The result is an impressive range of style and different ways of looking at the world. To make sense of this kaleidoscope of painting, the collection has been hung by country and period. The Latins - the Italians, Spanish and French are hung at the north end of the Gallery; the Northern Europeans - Flemish, Dutch and British - to the south. The Gallery as a whole thus allows for a ‘broad-brush’ contrast between these two European polarities. Today Dulwich Picture Gallery houses one of the finest collections of Old Masters in the world. TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS Dulwich Picture Gallery has developed an international reputation for its temporary exhibitions particularly its four areas of focus: Modern British, Rediscovering Old Masters, North American Series and Works on Paper. Canaletto in England in 2006 became a record-breaking show for the Gallery attracting over 50,000 visitors and more recently in the Modern British series, Paul Nash also attracted blockbuster numbers. 2009 was a highlight for scholarly research at the Gallery with the reuniting of all existing pieces of the Petrobelli Altarpiece, including the head of the archangel discovered in Texas by Dr. Xavier Salomon, the Arturo and Holly Melosi Chief Curator.

EXHIBITIONS 2011 A YEAR OF FIRSTS

Masterpiece A Month: Presiding Genius, January - December 2011 Every month during the Gallery’s Bicentenary celebration year a spectacular masterpiece will hang on the end wall of the Gallery’s enfilade. These paintings will be borrowed from major institutions with which Dulwich has a special relationship, and in many cases will have a historic link of some kind with the Gallery. Each of the 12 paintings to be exhibited as part of the Masterpiece A Month series will also be the subject of an accompanying lecture. Lawrence: Portrait of Sir John Soane (Sir John Soane’s Museum, London) Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) was a child prodigy who quickly became the most accomplished portrait painter of his day and, from 1820, President of the Royal Academy. His portrait of Sir John Soane, architect of Dulwich Picture Gallery, was one of eight exhibited at the RA in 1829, shortly before Lawrence’s death. Lecture: 13 January, Lecturer, Alan Read Velázquez: The Bafoon – Don Sebastián de Morra (The Prado, Madrid) Diego Velázquez (1599-1660), perhaps the best-known painter of the Spanish Golden Age, was made principal court painter at the age of 24; King Philip IV would allow no one else to paint him. However, as well as royalty and nobility, he painted a wide cast of characters including the dwarfs, like Sebastián de Morra, who were so indulged at court. Lecture: 24 February, Lecturer, Peter Scott Vermeer: The Music Lesson (The Royal Collection, London) Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), now acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age, was only moderately successful in his lifetime. The Music Lesson was acquired by George III in 1762 as an unconsidered part of the Consul Smith collection, attributed to Frans van Mieris. Had the then surveyor told the king that he owned a Vermeer the news would have been greeted with incomprehension as the name was then unknown. After the rediscovery of Vermeer in the 19th century this painting has become one of the most valued and enjoyed in the entire collection. Lecture: 10 March, Lecturer, Desmond Shawe-Taylor El Greco: The Vision of St John (The Metropolitan Museum, New York) El Greco (1541-1614),‘The Greek’, was born in Crete but lived in Spain for more than half of his life and produced some of his best-known paintings there. His dramatic, elongated figures and intense colours were shocking to his contemporaries but subsequently have been widely appreciated, particularly by 20th-century artists. The Vision of St John, with the broad open brushwork of his later style, was studied by artists as diverse as Picasso and Jackson Pollock. Lecture: 14 April, Lecturer: Rosalind Whyte Veronese: Venus and Mercury present Eros and Anteros to Jupiter (The Uffizi, Florence) Gods, saints and heroes fill the canvases of Paolo Veronese (1528-1588), bathed in rich, golden light and bedecked with gold, pearls and sumptuous fabrics. His works express the glamour and opulence of 16th century Venice, yet his magnificent canvases drew the disapproving attention of The Inquisition. The lecture will look at his highly successful career and consider how the grandeur and independence of his vision mirrored that of The Most Serene Republic – the city of Venice. Lecture: 19 May, Lecturer: Jo Walton Rembrandt: Titus as a Monk (The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) Born in Leyden in the Netherlands, Rembrandt (1606-1669) is revered as his country’s greatest artist. He spent most of his working life in Amsterdam, where his fortunes fluctuated. Some of his best-known portraits, admired for their directness and honesty, are those of himself and his family. The portrait of 19-year-old Titus, dressed as a monk, shows Rembrandt’s tender observation of his son, and his mastery of light and a limited palette. Lecture: 16 June Lecturer: Jessica Saraga 10

Ingres: Comtesse d’Haussonville (The Frick Collection, New York) The sumptuous portrait of the Vicomtesse d’Haussonville is ample testimony to Ingres’s supreme talent for creating ‘true portraits’ as Baudelaire called them, ‘ideal reconstructions of individuals’. But, like many gifted portrait painters, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) resented his success in this genre so we will also examine other facets of the work of this complex and puzzling artist. Lecture:14 July, Lecturer: Alan Read Van Gogh: Self Portrait with Felt Hat (The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), born in Zundert in the Netherlands, had a brief but productive career. He travelled frequently but spent most of his artistic career in France. His work was not appreciated during his own lifetime. However, he is now an artist described as iconic, although many people know more about his troubled mind than his colourful paintings. His main subjects were portraits and nature. Self Portrait with Felt Hat was produced during the winter of 1887-88 towards the end of his two years living in Paris. Lecture: 25 August, Lecturer: Melanie Paice Gainsborough: Mrs Sheridan (National Gallery of Art, Washington DC) Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) is famous for his society portraits, particularly ladies in sumptuous dresses and extravagant hats. However, he was happiest painting landscapes and also musicians, dancers and singers, like Elizabeth Linley (Mrs Sheridan), whose company he much enjoyed. Lecture: 22 September, Lecturer: Peter Scott John Constable: The Leaping Horse (Royal Academy of Arts, London) John Constable (1776-1837) said that the Suffolk countryside of his childhood was what made him want to be an artist. He continued to paint scenes from the area long after he had moved away and his Stour Valley paintings were central to his oeuvre. The Leaping Horse is one such scene and is perhaps the most dramatic of his six-foot Suffolk landscapes. Lecture: 6 October, Lecturer: Rosalind Whyte David Hockney: Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy (Tate, London) David Hockney (born 1937) is one of the most popular British artists of the 20th century. He knew from a very young age that he wanted to be an artist and found success almost straight out of the Royal College of Art. He is perhaps best-known for his bold, bright works of Californian swimming pools and his double portraits. Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy, the double portrait of his fashion designer friends, Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell, was painted shortly after their wedding. Lecture: 24 November, Lecturer, Melanie Paice Domenichino: The Adoration of the Shepherds (National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh) Domenichino (1581-1641), known as ‘Little Dominic’ because of his short stature, was born the son of a shoemaker in Bologna. He moved to Rome aged 21, working there for the popes and cardinals of the influential Farnese family. An admirer of Raphael, he is known for his pure, restrained classicism and accurate drawing. The Adoration of the Shepherds was once part of the Dulwich Picture Gallery collection. Lecture: 8 December, Lecturer: Jessica Saraga Supported by: The Linbury Trust Daily Telegraph Virgin Atlantic Apollo Magazine Culture Critic The Sloane Club The Big Give Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery

The Elizabeth Cayzer Charitable Trust The Estate of the late Lesley Lewis The Stanley Scott Trust

Norman Rockwell’s America, 15 Dec 2010 - 27 March 2011 The exhibition is organized by American Illustrators Gallery, New York City with The National Museum of American Illustration (NMAI), Newport, Rhode Island. It is curated for Dulwich Picture Gallery by Judy Goffman Cutler NMAI Museum Director, and includes 40 original Rockwell paintings and studies and all 323 vintage covers of the Saturday Evening Post, created between 1916 and 1963, along with illustrations for advertisements, magazines and books – providing a comprehensive look at his career. It is the first showing of his original works in this country. Norman Rockwell was born on 3 February, 1894, in New York City. In 1909 he left Mamaroneck High School to attend the National Academy of Design in New York City and the following year he enrolled at the Art Students League to take classes with George Bridgeman and Thomas Fogarty. By the age of 19, Rockwell was Art Editor for Boys’ Life magazine. Such an early success coupled with a unique painting style virtually launched his career. In 1916 he landed his first cover for the national’s most popular magazine, the Saturday Evening Post. His image for that first Post cover became the prototype for his classic Norman Rockwell magazine covers. These commissions gave him a newfound self-confidence to market his talent and six more Post covers immediately followed. It was Rockwell’s Post covers that were the most widely distributed with the magazine’s circulation increasing whenever one of his covers appeared. Delighted with this success, his goal was to share his art with millions, unlike other artists, who had precious few viewing their works. Norman Rockwell had the distinction of being published as soon as a painting was completed and it generated instant gratification for this illustrator. His images were omnipresent and his work wellrecognised by the public. He was perhaps the first ubiquitous artist. For more than sixty years, Norman Rockwell reflected the currents of American life and its times, from his earliest drawings to patriotic themes and to more socially conscious images in his later years. Rockwell captured images of everyday American life with a humour and power of observation that spoke directly to the public. Although Rockwell himself was happy to be described as ‘an illustrator’, his illustrations were executed with considerable technical skill in oils, and these original paintings have increased dramatically in value since his death in 1978. Recent years have seen a critical reassessment of his work. In 1999, The New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl led the way with his bold statement in ArtNews: “Rockwell is terrific. It’s become too tedious to pretend he isn’t.”

Supported by: Wall Street Journal Europe Virign Atlantic The Embassy of the United States of America Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery American Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery Saturday Evening Post

Friends Easter Open Exhibition, 22 April - 8 May 2011 Dulwich Picture Gallery launches its anniversary Friends Spring Open Exhibition featuring over 100 works by the Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery. This biannual exhibition was launched in 2004 and this will be the fourth in what has become an increasingly popular competition. As always the standard of work including paintings, photographs, drawings and prints is expected to be extremely high with all works on sale in the main Gallery exhibition spaces. Previous entrants have included Audrey Hammond. The judging panel of four will include Ian Dejardin, the Gallery’s Director, along with three other experts. All the art is for sale with 30% going to the Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery. Prices vary from tens to thousands of pounds. Money raised through subscriptions and Friends’ events support visiting exhibitions, conservation of paintings, education and community activities, and Dulwich Picture Gallery’s annual running costs. The Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery contributes over £200,000 each year to the Gallery and is a major donor. The Friends also provide volunteers to staff an information desk and guides scheme. Established for more than 50 years, the Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery is an independent charitable trust.

Twombly and Poussin: Arcadian Painters 29 June - 25 September 2011 This major exhibition will draw upon the world-class permanent collection of works at Dulwich Picture Gallery by Nicolas Poussin, alongside other works from major collections from around the world by both Poussin and Cy Twombly. Curated by Dr. Nicholas Cullinan, Curator of International Modern Art at Tate Modern, the exhibition examines how Twombly and Poussin, although separated by three centuries, nonetheless engaged with the same interests and concerns. Both painters spent their lives studying, revivifying and making newly relevant for their own eras subjects such as antiquity, ancient history, classical mythology, and the imaginary, idealised realm of Arcadia. The exhibition will consist of around thirty paintings and drawings, structured thematically around six rooms devoted to key shared themes: Arcadia and the pastoral, Venus and Eros, Anxiety and Theatricality, Apollo and Parnassus, Pan and the Bacchanalia and The Four Seasons. The exhibition has received enthusiastic support and loans from major private and public collections around the world, including The National Gallery and Tate in London; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Museo del Prado, Madrid; The Brandhorst Museum, Munich, The Art Institute of Chicago; The Royal Collection, Windsor; and The Duke of Devonshire. The exhibition has been developed in close collaboration with Twombly himself, and will include works that have never been exhibited before. Cy Twombly was born in 1928 in Lexington, Virginia. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1947–49); the Art Students League, New York (1950–51); and Black Mountain College, North Carolina (1951–1952). In the mid 1950s, following travels in Europe and Africa, he emerged as a prominent figure among a group of artists working in New York that included Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. In 1959, Twombly settled permanently in Italy. In 1968, the Milwaukee Art Center mounted his first retrospective. The European retrospective “Cy Twombly: Cycles and Seasons” opened at the Tate Modern, London in June 2008, with subsequent versions at the Guggenheim Bilbao and the Museum of Modern Art in Rome in 2009. Recent exhibitions include “Cy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works 2000-2007,” The Art Institute of Chicago (2009) and “Sensations of the Moment,” the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, (2009). Earlier this year Twombly’s permanent site-specific painting, Ceiling, was unveiled in the Salle des Bronzes at the Musée du Louvre. At the same time he was made Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur by the French government. Nicolas Poussin was born at Les Andelys in Normandy in 1594 and first trained in Rouen. From 1612 he lived in Paris and in 1624 he travelled via Venice to Rome, where he stayed for most of his life. His sensuous early canvases reflect 16th century Venetian art, especially that of Titian. He studied antique remains and his art reflects both this and an appreciation of Raphael. Poussin read ancient writers such as Ovid and attempted to recreate ancient myth and history in his works. Poussin mainly painted easel paintings for private patrons. From the late 1630s he began to paint landscapes. He brought a powerful discipline to the composition of his paintings, which enhanced the solemnity of their subjects. In his later years he developed an intensely personal style in his religious and allegorical works. The exhibition will be accompanied by an authoritative illustrated catalogue including essays by Dr. Nicholas Cullinan and Dr. Xavier F. Salomon, Arturo and Holly Melosi Chief Curator at Dulwich Picture Gallery and Dr. Katharina Schmidt. 14

Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven 19 October 2011 – 8 January 2012 Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven will bring the year of exhibition firsts to a triumphant close. Ian Dejardin is the lead Curator of the show, aided by Canadian co-Curators, Katerina Atanassova (Chief Curator of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection) and Anna Hudson (Associate Professor of Canadian Art and Curatorial Studies, York University, Canada). The exhibition has been planned as a journey, framed by two grand rooms dedicated individually to Tom Thomson and Lawren Harris. Between these two ‘poles’, a selection of the very best work of Thomson and the Group of Seven will be on display. A special feature of the show will be the juxtaposition, wherever possible, of the initial sketch with the finished canvas. One room will in fact be devoted entirely to a display of these vibrant sketches, which represent one of the most impressive contributions of Canada to twentieth-century art. Tom Thomson, who led the group, was born near Claremont, Ontario on August 5, 1877. A turning point in his life came in 1909 when he joined the staff of Grip Ltd., a prominent Toronto photoengraving house. The firm’s head designer, artist-poet J.E.H. MacDonald, contributed much to Thomson’s artistic development, sharpening his sense of design. However, Thomson’s career as a fine artist lasted barely four or five years; it was cut short in July 1917, when his canoe was found floating on Canoe Lake, empty. His body surfaced days later, triggering decades of speculation as to his fate. More sensational than these stories, however, was the burst of creativity that had preceded his death. In his last two years, Thomson had developed an artistic language that seemed to capture the unique qualities of the Canadian landscape – painterly, vibrant in colour, in tune with the subtle change of the seasons. The Canadian wilderness had been previously considered too wild and untamed to inspire ‘true’ art. His fellow employees at Grip Ltd., included Arthur Lismer, Fred Varley, Franklin Carmichael and Franz Johnson – all adventurous young painters who often organised weekend painting trips to the countryside around Toronto. After Tom’s death, a memorial exhibition was arranged and these men, together with Lawren Harris and A.Y Jackson, would go on to form in 1920 Canada’s first national school of painting, the Group of Seven, probably the most famous artistic force in Canadian art history. Along with Thomson they created a landscape style that to this day influences the way Canadians visualise their own country and their best paintings have become national icons. Lawren Harris was born October 23,1885 in Brantford, Ontario. He attended St. Andrew’s College in Toronto before studying art in Berlin, Germany, from 1904 to 1908. He then returned to Toronto, where he began painting post-impressionist street scenes of its older and poorer areas. By 1919 Harris’s landscapes had become increasingly sombre and his brush stroke more expressive. His affection for Scandinavian landscape painting was one of the key factors in the formulation of the Group of Seven’s approach to the Ontario woods, which Harris himself painted with gusto and attention. It was Harris who led the way toward painting the high Arctic, the Rocky Mountains, Gaspe and other unique and powerful parts of the Canadian earth. The exhibition will be accompanied by a beautifully-illustrated catalogue. The exhibition is planned to tour to another European venue.

Permanent Collection: Peter Randall-Page, Walking the Dog Dulwich Picture Gallery began its 200th anniversary celebrations in 2010 with its first ever acquisition of a piece of contemporary sculpture. Walking the Dog was purchased and presented to the Gallery by the Art Fund in honour of its Bicentenary and it is the first sculpture to be included in the permanent collection. Before creating the work, Peter Randall-Page spent time at the Gallery, at the invitation of the Director, drawing and taking photographs, familiarising himself with the building and the surrounding landscape. He was impressed by the simple proportions of the Gallery, as designed by Sir John Soane in 1811, and was particularly struck by the pattern that Soane had used as a decorative feature on the outside of the Gallery. The motif is Soane’s variation of the ‘Running Dog’ pattern, or Vitruvian Scroll, that occurs in Egyptian and Greek ornamentation. This pattern related very closely to the naturally occurring patterns that have always informed the work of Peter Randall-Page. In creating Walking the Dog, Peter Randall-Page echoed his previous works in which objects occur in threes by using three curved boulders on to which he carved the motif. Walking the Dog was recently unveiled and now resides in the Gallery’s grounds, on permanent view to the public.

SPECIAL EVENTS: MORE THAN JUST A GALLERY

The Big Bang: Celebrating 200 years of Dulwich Picture Gallery Sunday 9 January, 12pm onwards The Gallery will bring together the local community and beyond with a celebratory fun-filled family day to start the Bicentenary year on 9 January. The day will be packed with activities for all ages with food, music, art workshops, fireworks, falconry displays and more. The cloisters will come to life with music from the 30s to 50s with singer Alexandra Carter. In the Gallery visitors will be taken back to the 16th century with music from Emily Atkinson and Kaitlin Ertsey followed by American songs by Gershwin and Cole Porter performed by Suzanne Holmes and Martin Byatt. In the Sackler Centre there is fun for all the family with a drop-in workshop. Children will be able to make a model of the Gallery to wear with artist Erica Parrett. More excitement will be found outside with live Falconry displays in the gardens. Students from Dulwich College, JAGS, the Charter School, Dulwich College Prep and Kingsdale School will play music in Christâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chapel. A sumptous array of food stalls will be on offer courtesy of the Sea Cow, Barcelona Tapas, Lucaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bakery and of course the Gallery Cafe. Listings information: Free entry to Permanent Collection Event starts at 12pm From 1pm: Music in the Chapel and Cloisters 1.30pm and 3.30pm: Music in the Gallery From 12pm: Family Drop-in Workshop: Gallery Costumes 2pm and 3pm: Falconry displays 2.30pm: Ian Dejardin, Director leads a tribute to the founders 4.45pm: Big Band performance in the Garden 5pm Unveiling of the Portrait of Sir John Soane in the Gallery 5.15pm Fireworks

Italian Film Festival, 10, 11, 12 July To coincide with Twombly and Poussin: Arcadian Painters the Friends of the Dulwich Picture Gallery will be hosting a three-day Italian Film Festival exploring the locations and culture that inspired the two artists to produce such distinctive work. Cinema Paradiso (1988) Sunday 10 July, 6.15 for 6.45pm Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore ‘Not a false note is struck among the sunkissed Sicilian locations, gentle, humorous performances, and tinkling soundtrack. Tornatore taps themes of bonding, nostalgia, community, history and the power of film to transport man into a world of dreams’ A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theatre and formed a deep friendship with the theatre’s projectionist. Journey to Italy (1954) Monday 11 July, 7.15 for 7.45pm Directed by Roberto Rossellini ‘An honest portrayal of a disintegrating relationship. One of the best 25 romantic films of all time’ The Guardian The Joyces, played by Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders, are a British couple that have gone on a trip to Italy. Upon their arrival in Naples, they suffer a crisis in their relationship. The feelings between them change even more on a visit to the city of Pompeii, where they witness an ancient statue being discovered. I am Love (2009) Tuesday 12 July, 7.15 for 7.45pm Directed by Luca Guadagnino, starring Tilda Swinton ‘A gorgeously costumed and styled piece of work’ Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian A tragic love story set at the turn of the millennium in Milan. The film follows the fall of the haute bourgeoisie due to the forces of passion and unconditional love. The screenings will include complimentary Italian food and wine, introductions to the films and film notes.

EDUCATION

MAKING LIFE BETTER THROUGH ART

Dulwich Picture Gallery Education Department The Education Department at Dulwich Picture Gallery was founded in 1984 and now serves over 35,000 participants each year. The department has won over 20 national and international awards for its work. The department has a three-strand approach. In the Gallery it works with the permanent collection, temporary exhibitions and Gallery buildings using them as inspiration for extensive daily education programmes. In the Sackler Centre for Arts Education, the Gallery runs innovative practical art courses led by a team of professional artists all highly regarded in their area of expertise. Lastly the Gallery runs an extensive outreach programme teaching art in the community taking place at both schools and a wide range of partner sites catering for sectors of society not usually associated with fine art including community centres, libraries, Sure-Start Centres, churches and youth clubs. Highlights of the Gallery’s Education programme in 2011 include the Gallery’s annual Contextual Lecture Series which this year will focus on the social, political, and philosophical context of the year of our founding. Amongst this year’s extensive programme of art courses will be a three-day course exploring sculpture in a response to Peter Randall-Page’s sculpture, Walking the Dog, presented to the Gallery in September 2010 by the Art Fund in honour of the Gallery’s Bicentenary. The Gallery also runs a series of Foundation Courses this year celebrating the Gallery’s founding inspiration in the architecture and grounds of Dulwich. The Gallery will continue its free guided-tours on Saturday and Sunday at 3pm.

Benefactors and Sponsors Dulwich Picture Gallery are grateful to those listed below, and others who wish to remain anonymous, who have supported the Gallery. Outstanding Benefactors Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery The Heritage Lottery Fund The Estate of the late Lesley Lewis The Linbury Trust Mr & Mrs James Lupton The Arthur & Holly Magill Foundation* The Late Sir Edwin Manton The National Heritage Memorial Fund The Dr Mortimer & Theresa Sackler Foundation Garfield Weston Foundation Principal Benefactors American Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery Inc.* Edith Callam Memorial Trust The Clore Duffield Foundation London Borough of Southwark Lady (Lisa) Sainsbury Major Benefactors Air Canada The Estate of the Late Geoffrey Akerman Apollo Magazine The Art Fund The Band Trust Bank of America Merrill Lynch Ms Sheila Boyle The Elizabeth Cayzer Charitable Trust The Clore Duffield Foundation Culture Critic Curtis Publishing Mrs Carole Dale The Daily Telegraph DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund Delancey Ms Ann Douglas EsmĂŠe Fairbairn Foundation The Embassy of the United States of America Groupe Aeroplan Mrs Helena Frost The Helen Hamlyn Trust The Mactaggart Third Fund M&G Group The Monument Trust The Late David Leslie Medd

Major Benefactors contd. The Adam Mickiewicz Institute The Hamish Parker Charitable Trust Virgin Atlantic Wall Street Journal Europe Mrs Mary Weston CBE Wyeth Foundation for American Art Pilgrim Trust The Coral Samuel Charitable Trust Samuel H. Kress Foundation The Dr Mortimer & Theresa Sackler Foundation Simon Dickinson Ltd. Stikeman Elliott The Sloane Club The Southbank Art Company Stanley Scott Trust The Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation Susie and Denis Tinsley Terra Foundation for American Art* Supporters AHJ Charitable Trust Baring Asset Management Sandra Bernstein Charitable Trust The Deborah Loeb Brice Foundation* The British Antique Dealersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Association Blair & Carol Brown Trust* The P H G Cadbury Charitable Trust Cass Art Mr Leo Crane Digby Trout Elior Mrs Carole Dale Dulwich Decorative & Fine Arts Society Mr & Mrs Peter Ellis The Friends of the BADA Trust J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust The Guild of Registered Tourist Guides The Sue Hammerson Charitable Trust The Hazel M. Wood Charitable Trust Harvey & Wheeler Mr Robert Hirschhorn Margaret Howell Ltd. Daniel Katz Ltd. The Kirby Laing Foundation Mr & Mrs Herbert Kretzmer National Association of Decorative & Fine Art Societies Offer Waterman & Co The Mr. Hamish Parker Charitable Trust Polish National Tourist Office Mrs Philip Poole-Wilson Mr & Mrs Jeremy Prescott Lady Reid 27

Supporters contd. The Reverend David Ward The Royal Historical Society Robinson Bequest Timothy Sammons Fine Art The Sandra Charitable Trust The Sharp Foundation The Hazel Wood Charitable Trust Wyborowa Vodka Mr Martin Wyld CBE Mr Charles Wynn-Evans & Ms Alex McColl One anonymous donor We would also like to highlight the generosity of our Patron Groups the 1811 Club and Desenfans Circle who support Dulwich Picture Gallery. Donations made to American Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery 2009-10 * American Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery Inc. is a 501(c)(3) US nonprofit organizations and donations to it are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. The grant from The American Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery Inc. in 2009-10 was made possible through the generosity of: The Deborah Loeb Brice Foundation Blair & Carol Brown Trust The Arthur & Holly Magill Foundation Terra Foundation for American Art This list was compiled using Dulwich Picture Galleryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Annual Report 2009/2010 with the inclusion of donors from 2010/2011.