‘Self-Portrait with Lightcliffe Old Church, Halifax’ is an oil painting by the Yorkshire artist, Peter Brooke. It is in the permanent collection of Bradford Museums and Galleries Service and can often be seen at Cliffe Castle, Keighley. Although the painting was acquired by Bradford in 1981, it is…
‘Alice’ is a head and shoulders pencil sketch drawn in 1925 by the Irish born artist, Charlotte Lawrenson. It is in the permanent collection of the Bradford Museum and Galleries Service and was on display at Cartwright Hall, Bradford in 2025. It illustrates a girl in her pre-teen or…
‘Beckfoot’, painted around 1890, by local artist, Fred Stead, is in the permanent collection of Bradford Museums and Galleries Service and was displayed at Cliffe Castle in 2025. It is an oil on canvas painting measuring 49 x 59.5 cm. The artist has chosen to use oils for this painting,…
‘The Garden‘ is an oil on canvas painting, 77 .5 x 63.3 cm in size, by Ethel Walker (1861 – 1951) in the permanent collection of the Bradford Museums and Galleries Service and currently (2025) on display at Cartwright Hall, Lister Park, Bradford. It was painted at the end of…
‘Flowers in a Pot’, circa 1910, is an early work by the artist Bernard Meninsky and is in the collection of Bradford Museums and Galleries; it is often on display in the gallery at Cliffe Castle, Keighley. The striking colours of this oil painting on canvas commands attention –…
‘The Heart of the West Riding’ was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1916 by Bertram Priestman and is now in the permanent collection of Bradford Museums and Galleries, Cartwright Hall, Lister Park, Bradford. It is a large oil painting on canvas, 115.5cm x 183.5cm, and depicts sunset across the Vale of Huddersfield. It…
‘Gordale Scar’, by James Ward (1769-1859), in the permanent collection of Bradford Museums and Galleries, was painted around 1813 and is a smaller version by Ward of the same oil painting exhibited today in the Tate Gallery, London. The Tate painting is enormous: 14 by 12 feet, whereas this version…
In 2011 Cartwright Hall joined 30 museums and galleries in the region to launch an online project called ‘Yorkshire’s Favourite Paintings’. A website, funded by the Yorkshire Regional Museums Hub, was created containing 100 of the region’s best-loved paintings, as chosen by the public, with opportunities for leaving comments on the…
The lithograph print, measuring 88.5 x 59 cm, ‘Come to Me’, by Paula Rego, is in the Print Room at Cartwright Hall. It is one a number of signed limited prints, purchased by Bradford Museums and Galleries, and is one of a set of prints by Rego in their permanent collection. …
The artist, Peter Brook (1927- 2009), is usually associated with his oil paintings of Pennine landscape and architecture. But, his oil painting, ‘Staithes’, in the permanent collection of Bradford Museums and Galleries, and displayed at Cliffe Castle, Keighley, is an exception to this. It catches the lop-sided jumble of buildings in…
