New Hall Art Collection (Cambridge)

An exclusive collection of over 250 pieces by women artisits.

Summary

Free admission
Art and sculpture

Introduction

The college is home to the second largest collection of women's art in the world. The New Hall Art Collection can be regarded as unique in this country and is visited, consulted, written about and photographed by art historians and others excited by the talent and originality displayed by so many contemporary women artists.

New Hall's unique Art Collection now contains nearly 350 contemporary works by women artists. The Collection, which includes works by Maggi Hambling, Barbara Hepworth and Paula Rego, is regularly visited, consulted, written about and photographed by artists and art historians, school and college students, and others excited by the talent and originality displayed by so many contemporary women artists.

From its foundation, New Hall was fortunate in receiving a few valuable donations and loans of works of art. However, in 1986 we were able to acquire Mary Kelly's work Extase (with the generous help of the Eastern Arts Association and of the artist herself) following her stay as artist-in-residence at New Hall and Kettle's Yard. It spurred us to hope that it might be the nucleus of a permanent collection of twentieth century art by distinguished women artists.

This hope was realised by the early 1990s when a core group of professional women artists donated their works. Since then the Collection has continued to grow, and today, by virtue of its size and specialisation, the Collection has become the most significant of its kind in the UK, and second in size only to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC.

Open

The Collection is available for viewing daily from 10am-6pm

Arrival information and how to find us

Address: New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge, , United Kingdom