The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool has opened British Art 1880-1950.

Room 11 showcases works by Jacob Epstein, Paul Nash, LS Lowry and Lucian Freud alongside the Merseyside artists Albert Richards and George Jardine. Other highlights include furniture by Morris & Co and ceramics by the Martin Brothers and Bernard Leach.

This room also includes new interactive and audio-visual features:

An interactive timeline showing the major changes in British art during this period, including archive images and video.

An audio soundscape for the painting ‘Off to the Fishing Grounds’ by Alexander Stanhope Forbes.

Special canvases that can be touched by visitors to give an understanding of different painting techniques.

Image: Detail of ‘Amity’ by Bernard Fleetwood-Walker. Courtesy of The Estate of the late Peggy Fleetwood-Walker

www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker

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