Rossetti's Obsession at the Lady Lever Art Gallery

IMAGES OF JANE MORRIS

Some seldom-seen drawings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti featuring Janey Morris as muse in a variety of roles, will be shown in the Rossetti’s Obsession exhibition organised by curator Jill Iredale and opening at Bradford’s Cartwright Hall Art Gallery on 15 March. 
The works are impressive and are seldom-seen because [a] being in coloured chalks or pastel, they are light-sensitive and can’t be displayed permanently and  [b] being little-known they have rarely been requested for exhibition elsewhere.  Together with  other similar pieces, including some from private collections, they provide a compelling immersion in Rossetti’s almost literal visual obsession with Jane’s pale, sombre features, grey eyes and dark hair during the last phase of his career. 
It is a compact show – images from Cartwright Hall at the foot of this post 
then at the Lady Lever Gallery in Port Sunlight from 20 June to 21 September

where it looks like this


and the huge Honeysuckle curtain stitched by Jane and her daughter Jenny looks especially stunning

Free tours of the exhibition:
4 August:  Julian Treuherz
4 September: Julian Treuherz
9 September: Jill Iredale
11 September: Julian Treuherz
17 September: Sandra Penketh




There's an accompanying publication with the ISBN 978-0-946657-64-3, sponsored by the Friends of Bradford Art Galleries.

Also  a useful YouTube link   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9amR4Pnro8o  
to a short video on the Cartwright installation

     

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