Last month we committed to write about one of the 5 Tolly Cobbold sponsored art exhibitions each month.
Fourteen hundred entries were received and fifty-seven were exhibited. The exhibition opened at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge on 1st April 1977 and went on to the Ipswich Museum, High Street Art Gallery in May and then to the Graves Art Gallery in Sheffield in June and finally to the Camden Arts Centre in London, closing at the end of August.
Fourteen hundred entries were received and fifty-seven were exhibited. The exhibition opened at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge on 1st April 1977 and went on to the Ipswich Museum, High Street Art Gallery in May and then to the Graves Art Gallery in Sheffield in June and finally to the Camden Arts Centre in London, closing at the end of August.
The Selection Panel of 4 comprised:
- Michael Craig Martin, Artist in Residence at King’s College, Cambridge.
- John Golding, Cambridge Slade Professor of Fine Art.
- Howard Hodgkin, Artist in Residence at Brasenose College, Oxford, and
- Dr Alastair Hunter, Keeper of Twentieth Century Paintings at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Our illustrations show firstly, the Selection Panel, left to right, John Golding, Howard Hodgkin, Michael Craig Martin and Dr Hunter and secondly a prize winning entry entitled Conversation 29¼” x 37¼ oil on canvas by Stephen Buckley (b1944)
