Ann Dannatt Centenary Exhibition: Paintings and works on paper by George Dannatt & St Ives artists

This September, to celebrate the centenary year of Ann Dannatt, Waterhouse & Dodd will display works from the George Dannatt Trust, a collection formed over the course of George and Ann’s 66 year marriage. The exhibition will feature George’s paintings alongside selected works by artists the Dannatt’s knew and collected, including Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Denis Mitchell, Patrick Heron, Terry Frost and John Wells.

In 1943, George (1915-2009) and Ann (b.1919) married and embarked on a lifetime together of collecting and creating art. In 1963, they visited Cornwall for the first time where they began to befriend many of the artists there, including Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron, Terry Frost, Bryan Wynter, John Wells, Denis Mitchell and Paul Feiler. Over the coming decades the couple became inextricably linked to the St Ives group as generous patrons, and George developed as an artist, exhibiting alongside the artists that he admired. Their Modern British collection went on to include works by William Scott, Robert Adams, Roger Hilton, John Tunnard and Alfred Wallis and in later years figurative and abstract works by European artists, including Picasso, Laurencin, Gris, Arp, Soulages, Heliôn and Chillida.

In 2011 more than a hundred works of art were gifted from the collection to Pallant House Gallery and Ann became a Patron. A further donation of 25 works from the collection was gifted to Southampton City Art Gallery in 2013.

Waterhouse & Dodd represent the George Dannatt Trust.

OPENING TIMES

Monday-Friday 9.30am – 6.00pm
Saturdays By Appointment Only