Collector's Choice

EXHIBITION OF newly discovered artwork!

George Thomas Rope - Frisky Young Grey. Oil

An exciting exhibition, titled ‘Collector’s Choice,’ opens at the East Anglian Traditional Art Centre in Wickham Market on Saturday 19th April and runs for two weeks. More than 50 oil paintings, pencil drawings and watercolours will be on display and for sale. Many of the newly discovered pictures are by George Thomas Rope of the village of Blaxhall, an avidly collected artist who was also a natural historian; he died in 1929.  

George Thomas Rope - Keeper's Hut on the Heath, Iken. Pencil drawing.

John Day, founder of the East Anglian Traditional Art Centre, says, “We have always researched and collected works by George Rope, and this is a rare opportunity to see a group of his pictures. Our objective in the Art Centre is to promote interest in the Fine Art produced by Suffolk Artists working between 1750 and 1950, many of whom exhibited in the 19th century at the Fine Art Club in Ipswich.”

The ‘Collector’s Choice’ Exhibition runs from Saturday 19th April until Saturday 3rd May, 11am until 4pm; Tuesday to Saturday (closed Sunday and Monday).

 * For further details visit, www.eatac.co.uk Or call, 01728 747050.