Munnings – The War Years
A traveling exhibition of 40 paintings by Sir Alfred Munnings, developed by the Canadian War Museum (Ottawa, Canada), in partnership with the Munnings Art Museum (Dedham, UK) and generously supported by The Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation.
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Munnings – The War Years
September 18, 2025 – December 6, 2025
Nickle Galleries is honoured to be hosting Munnings – The War Years, opening to the public September 18, 2025. Renowned today as one of England’s finest painters of horses, Sir Alfred Munnings also created more than 40 works of art as part of the Canadian…
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Online Resources
VIRTUAL – Alfred Munnings, War Artist 1918
This free resource complements the exhibition Munnings – The War Years, providing rich contextual information about Munnings, his art, and his career as a war artist. The site includes links to 9 teacher resources connecting the exhibition with The Alberta …
VIRTUAL – Wool and Grass: Kyrgyz Textiles in the Collections of Nickle Galleries
In 2009 Nickle Galleries (then The Nickle Arts Museum) hosted Reeds and Wool: Patterned Screens of Central Asia, a travelling exhibition organized by the Kaufman Museum at Bethel College in Kansas, USA. The exhibition featured rare examples of Kyrgyz texti …
VIRTUAL – Visualising Colonialism: British-Indian Textile Labels in the Collection of Nickle Galleries
Visualising Colonialism: British-Indian Textile Labels in the Collection of Nickle Galleries highlights a unique collection of commercial textile and dye labels used during the British colonisation of India. Displaying a unique chapter in the history of pr …
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