This is a lovely gallery in central Chichester and needs a lot more time - as do the Piper windows in the Cathedral. The current exhibition is Surreal Friends concentrating on the work of Leonora Carrington. But I prefer the core modern art collection which has work by well known artists, but so unusual and so different in style that I have never even seen reproductions.
This still life is by Christopher Wood - Lemons in a Blue Basket painted in 1922. Like Mark Gertler (below) Wood died young - jumping in front of a train at Salisbury Station. A less attractive personality than Gertler, but equally complex, and like Ben Nicholson, an artist with a European outlook.
Mark Gertler - who lived close to Oxford at Garsington Manor as a guest of Lady Ottoline Morrell, painted Near Swanage in 1916. He was a fascinating flawed personality whose unrequited love for Dora Carrington, hyper-sensitivity to his poverty driven Jewish background and constant ill-health led him to commit suicide in his 40s.
This is an unusual Ivon Hitchens - Curved Barn painted in 1922. 
This still life is by Christopher Wood - Lemons in a Blue Basket painted in 1922. Like Mark Gertler (below) Wood died young - jumping in front of a train at Salisbury Station. A less attractive personality than Gertler, but equally complex, and like Ben Nicholson, an artist with a European outlook.
Mark Gertler - who lived close to Oxford at Garsington Manor as a guest of Lady Ottoline Morrell, painted Near Swanage in 1916. He was a fascinating flawed personality whose unrequited love for Dora Carrington, hyper-sensitivity to his poverty driven Jewish background and constant ill-health led him to commit suicide in his 40s.
This is an unusual Ivon Hitchens - Curved Barn painted in 1922.
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