The exhibition of the TRURO SCHOOL ART COLLECTION has just opened at the Royal Cornwall Museum. It is an outstanding show, well worth a visit. There are about 100 pictures there, all of high quality, all related in some way and all part of the astonishing collection assembled for the school by David Heseltine.
That any school should have on its walls such an important collection of significant art is remarkable; that it is here in Truro is even more so.
A roll call of contemporary Cornish artists would evidently include an unexpectedly large number of Truro School alumni.
The emphasis is on contemporary work though it is good to be met at the entrance by this glorious OLSSON painting. Heseltine points out that Olsson taught Borlase Smart, who taught Lanyon.. and the links go on before our very eyes.
Where did the Olsson come from? The Lander Gallery of course.
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