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McAlpine Gallery: 24 September - 1 December 1996

Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum. The collection of 130 modern Chinese paintings presented to the Ashmolean Museum in 1955 in honour of Jose Mauricio and Angelita Trinidad Reyes covered the period from mid-19th century to the present day, including works by almost every major artist working in the traditional medium of ink and colour on paper. In addition to works in the strict classical tradition, there were works which updated that tradition or respond to both Japanese and western influences, such as those associated with the "Political Pop" and "Cynical Realism" movements of the post-1989 generation of artists.
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The Department of Western Art

McAlpine Gallery: 9 January - 3 March 1996

Helen Saunders 1885-1963 Helen Saunders studied at the Slade and the Central School of Arts and Crafts and was among the handful of women artists active in the Modernist avant-garde before the First World War. A regular exhibitor at Vorticist exhibitions, she was reluctant to exhibit her work after 1916 and there are no published sources to document her long career as an artist. Her later works included landscape, still-life and portraits of friends. The majority of the 64 paintings and watercolours were exhibited for the first time.

Eldon Gallery: 13 February - 12 May 1996

Sixteenth-Century French Ornament Drawings - Designs for medals and jewels by Etienne DeLaune (1518-1578) The Ashmolean's collection of 16th Century French ornament drawings is one of the most extensive of its kind in existence. The designs for jewels are of particular interest; several can be identified as designs for Catherine de Medici and Henry II, Diane de Poitiers and Mary Queen of Scots.

McAlpine Gallery: 12 March - 12 May 1996

Designs for the Ashmolean Architectural plans and drawings for the building of the Ashmolean Museum in the 1840s, by the architect C.R. Cockerell (1788-1863). The series of contract drawings are handsome drawings in their own right and allow one to follow the evolution of the building through successive modifications. The exhibition marked the 150th anniversary of the completion of the building in 1846.

McAlpine & Eldon Galleries: 21 May - 15 October 1996

Ruskin and Oxford.

Ruskin always had close links with Oxford. After his appointment as the first Slade Professor he decided to found an Art School in the University, at which his principles could be put into practice. This exhibition, drawn largely from the Ashmolean's collections, illustrated this surprisingly little-documented aspect of Ruskin's aims. The exhibition was arranged by Professor Robery Hewison, a well-known Ruskin scholar, and was sponsored by the Guild of St George and the Ruskin Foundation in association with the Sheffield City Arts and Museum Department.

Eldon Gallery: 17 September - 1 December

Techniques of Drawing. A selection of forty drawings from the permanent collection in the Print Room, which trace the historical development of techniques of drawing over almost seven hundred years, from 1300 to the present. Drawings from major European schools were represented in over fifteen different media, ranging from silverpoint, natural red chalk, pencil, and conte crayon to ink, watercolour and gouache.

The drawings on show included a silverpoint study of drapery by Fra Filippo Lippi, a landscape watercolour by Albrecht Durer which is probably the earliest use of watercolour for such a purpose, a beggar boy in black and white chalk by Thomas Gainsborough, and a pen and ink portrait drawing by David Hockney, acquired by the museum earlier in 1996.

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