Art Collection
Scarborough Art Gallery displays works from its collection in its two ground floor galleries. These displays change throughout the year, though visitors will always see the magnificent Atkinson Grimshaws.
There are oils and watercolours of Scarborough, by artists of the nineteenth century such as John Wilson Carmichael and Henry Barlow Carter. Also on display are nationally important artists from the twentieth century such as Ivon Hitchens and Matthew Smith.
There are about 1,500 works in the art collection, principally oil paintings (200) and works on paper (including watercolours, prints and drawings) with a few pieces of sculpture (less than 10) and a small group of Filey ware ceramics, a group of clocks and some pieces of furniture (donated by Tom Laughton).
H.B. Carter - Fishing Smack off Scarborough | Overall the collection is of important local significance and includes subjects in the town and area by local artists from the 18th century to the early part of the 20th century. Good examples of these artists would be: H B Carter (1803-1868), John Wilson Carmichael (1800-1868), Ernest Dade (1865-1935) and Paul Marny (1829-1914). |
The Printmakers Council Archive (116 works) was donated in 1992.There is a large and important collection of railway posters (though not as comprehensive as the National Railway Museum’s holdings), a collection of 147 works on paper by Frank Brangwyn and over 60 works by Carter. | 
Edward Bawden,The-pond, Great-Bardfield, 1933 |
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Frank Brangwyn - The Storm No 1 | |