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53°48′43″N 1°46′18″W / 53.81205°N 1.77163°W / 53.81205; -1.77163
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Cartwright Hall, Lister Park, Bradford
Cartwright Hall and grounds

Cartwright Hall is the civic art gallery in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, situated about a mile from the city centre in the Manningham district. It was built on the former site of Manningham Hall using a gift of £40,000 donated by Samuel Lister and it is named after Edmund Cartwright. The gallery which opened in 1904 initially had a display of artworks loaned from other galleries and private collections until it was able to purchase a permanent collection of Victorian and Edwardian works using money raised by the 1904 Bradford Exhibition. [1]

Cartwright Hall stands in Lister Park and enjoys scenic views of the city. Cartwright Hall has been held to represent "Bradford Baroque", a style of architecture typical of Bradford. It is however designed by the same architects as Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum ( Sir John W. Simpson and E.J. Milner Allen), also in the Baroque style. [2]

The purpose-built gallery is home to a collection of permanent works, from Old Masters to 20th-century British paintings and sculpture. [3] Cartwright Hall also has a biennial open exhibition and contemporary and historical exhibitions by local, national and international artists. [4] Since the mid 1980s the Bradford museum group has collected works that are associated with the cultural background of many post-war migrants to the Bradford area. [5] Acquisitions include contemporary South Asian Art - Islamic calligraphy, phulkari style illustrated textiles and items of contemporary Sikh art, including a portrait of Guru Nanak. [6]

In 1983 Cartwright Hall was briefly used as part of the musical number Every Sperm is Sacred in the Monty Python film, The Meaning of Life. [7]

In 2003 an Unreal Tournament map was created featuring the inside of the hall as part of a contest for PC Format Magazine. [8]

Notable holdings

  • Tristram and Isoude stained-glass panels, by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., 1862. Acquired via Cartwright Hall in 1917, they are now permanently on display at Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley (also run by Bradford Museums and Galleries)

Notable staff

See also

References

  1. ^ Bishop, Anne (1989). "Cartwright Memorial Hall and the Great Bradford Exhibition of 1904". The Bradford Antiquary. 4 (third series). Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society: 26–38. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
  2. ^ "Lister Park" (PDF). Bradford Council. p. 230. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  3. ^ "Cartwright Hall Art Gallery". TheArtFund. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
  4. ^ "Cartwright Hall". Friends of Lister Park. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
  5. ^ "Welcome: Bradford, Yorkshire, BD9 4NS". The Islamic Art and Material Culture Subject Specialist Network, UK. 2014. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
  6. ^ "Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford Museums & Galleries". Contemporary Art Society. Archived from the original on 21 November 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
  7. ^ "Monty Python comes to town". Telegraph and Argus. Retrieved 19 August 2009.
  8. ^ "beyond unreal". Teddie Tapawan. Archived from the original on 18 April 2010. Retrieved 21 April 2010.
  9. ^ Sharon J Macdonald; Bettina Messias Carbonell (23 April 2012). "Museums, National, Postnational, Transcultural Identities". Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 273–283. ISBN  978-1-4051-7381-0. Retrieved 29 June 2020.

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53°48′43″N 1°46′18″W / 53.81205°N 1.77163°W / 53.81205; -1.77163