- Venue
- Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum
- Starts
- Friday, December 2, 2011
- Ends
- Sunday, February 12, 2012
- Address
- Royal Pump Rooms The Parade Leamington Spa CV32 4AA
- Location
- West Midlands
This exhibition provides a unique opportunity to see a wide range of works by the popular, but now often forgotten, artist and photographer James Edward Duggins. Duggins, the son of a clockmaker, was born in Cubbington in 1881. He moved to St Ives at the age of 23 to study under the British Impressionist painters Algernon Talmage and Julius Olsson. There, he became friends with the marine artist John Park and met Edward Stott and George Clausen, who influenced his pastel work. In 1906 he returned to Leamington Spa to establish a photographic business at The Grove Studio on Regent Grove. He also taught at the Boys’ College, Binswood Avenue and the Art School in Leamington, and illustrated two books, Sweet Arden (1908) and Unknown Warwickshire (1924). He continued to paint and sketch scenes inspired by the Warwickshire and Cotswold countryside throughout his life, exhibiting regularly at the Royal Academy. This is the first retrospective exhibition of Duggins’ work to take place since the artist’s death. It includes paintings, pastels, watercolours and photographs from both public and private collections.
