Working in a museum and occasionally collecting work for the national collection I realise just how difficult it is to collect a cohesive and such an important group of works and thanks from all of us need to go to Barrie Maskell for such an important collection. I know just how difficult it must have been to assemble this group of works: I have been chasing some of these artists myself for a number of years and haven't managed to get work half as good as some of these works you see here today.
- Nicholas Thornton Head of modern and contemporary art Amguedda Cymru-National Museum Wales Cardiff
Will Roberts (1907 - 2000)
Biography
He exhibited with the London Group for several years and in 1956 became a founder member of the 56 Group.
This sensitive and deeply religious man, recorded for posterity a largely disappearing landscape and way of life.
As a painter Will Roberts never retired. He continued to draw and paint continuously until a few weeks before his death. He died in Neath on 11 March 2000.
The works of Will Roberts RCA can be found in the following collections:-
Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales, Cardiff; Brecknock Museum and Art Gallery, Brecon; Brno, Czechoslovakia; Contemporary Art Society for Wales; Cardiff University; City of Coventry Art Gallery; City of Hereford Art Gallery; National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth; Neath Museum and Art Gallery; Swansea University; Bangor University, North Wales; other public and private collections.
He exhibited with the London Group for several years and in 1956 became a founder member of the 56 Group.
This sensitive and deeply religious man, recorded for posterity a largely disappearing landscape and way of life.
As a painter Will Roberts never retired. He continued to draw and paint continuously until a few weeks before his death. He died in Neath on 11 March 2000.
The works of Will Roberts RCA can be found in the following collections:-
Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales, Cardiff; Brecknock Museum and Art Gallery, Brecon; Brno, Czechoslovakia; Contemporary Art Society for Wales; Cardiff University; City of Coventry Art Gallery; City of Hereford Art Gallery; National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth; Neath Museum and Art Gallery; Swansea University; Bangor University, North Wales; other public and private collections.
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