Room guide

Room eleven

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.
• Tactile image books with accompanying braille descriptions, for visitors with visual impairment.
  

Watch our paintings come to life!

Ask the 'Two Jamaican Girls' by Augustus John a question in our interactive gallery and see what they say about life in Jamaica.

• Explore our Talking Heads interactive gallery

 

Room highlights include:

• 'Blackberry gathering', Elizabeth Forbes
• 'Under the hammer', Robert Bevan
• 'Mrs Mounter', Harold Gilman