- Wikidata identifier:
- Q6717045
- Also known as:
- MOMA, Wales, MOMA Cymru, Museum of Modern Art, Wales, MOMA Wales
- Instance of:
- art museum; independent museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 928
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q6717045/
Collection-level records:
-
Collection history (Collection development policy)
The nucleus of the Tabernacle Collection is a small private collection that was transferred to the Machynlleth Tabernacle Trust in 1986. Since then additions have been made through the Nora Gibbs and Mollie Winterburn Bequest; the John Davies Bequest; the Contemporary Art Society for Wales; and many individual donors and artists. No public money has been spent on the Collection.
The Brotherhood of Ruralists were early exhibitors at the museum and their work is represented by Graham Arnold’s Last Poems (A E Housman) and Journal 1997 and by Ann Arnold’s Clare’s Countryside (8) and The River Dyfi.
Source: Collection development policy
Date: 2024
Licence: CC BY-NC
-
Collection overview (Collection development policy)
The Tabernacle Collection contains nearly 400 works (in 2022), 25 of which are sculptures and remaining works more or less equally split between works on paper and paintings.
The collection is dominated by living artists with a few exceptions such as a portrait by Augustus John and works on paper by Stanley Spencer and Percy Wyndham Lewis. Important Welsh artists include Cefyn Burgess, Peter Edwards, James Dickson Innes, Shani Rhys James, Peter Prendergast, Kevin Sinnott, David Tress and Sir Kyffin Williams.
Source: Collection development policy
Date: 2024
Licence: CC BY-NC