Friends of the Victoria Art Gallery – Generous gifts and bequests

Thomas Barker, Lansdown gardens

Thomas Barker, Lansdown Gardens, from Victor Thompson.

 

Image:Gerald Cains, The Demolition of Churchill House

Gerald Cains, Churchill House, Bath (Demolition), 2007, from Rebecca Dunn and Peter Lewis.

 

Victor Thompson Bequest
Vic was a Friends committee member and bequeathed his collection of works by Barker of Bath to the Gallery through the Friends.


Lutz and Pamela Haber Bequests

Lutz and Pamela were Friends. Lutz bequeathed £20,000 to Heritage Services. The money was allocated to the purchase of public access storage for works on paper. A changing selection of 84 prints, drawings and watercolours can be viewed at any one time.

 

On Pamela's death, Lutz' picture by Paul Klee, along with other works of art, came to the Gallery and the Friends were bequeathed a substantial sum of money by Pamela.

 

Rebecca Dunn and Peter Lewis gift

Rebecca and Peter purchased, from the annual Bath Society of Artists exhibition in the Gallery, the oil painting of the demolition of Churchill House by Gerald Cains and gifted it to the Gallery.