#ArtificialIntelligenceMW We've always enjoyed the playful side of AI. Like the time we made portraits at The Cooper Gallery look younger.

This is Peggy Airey by Barnsley artist Abel Hold.

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Also by Abel Hold is Watter Joe

Both this paintings are on display at The Cooper Gallery and we have a blog about these two Barnsley characters
barnsleymuseums.art.blog/2022/06/13/bar…

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Your puzzle for today is: Excavating The True Cross by Brian Wildsmith

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From 'The True Cross' published in 1977 (c) The Brian Wildsmith Estate and Oxford University Press

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Your puzzle for today is: Irun, from the Bidassoa by David Roberts

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Roberts became a Royal Academician in 1841 and regularly exhibited his work there. explorebarnsleycollections.com/Record.aspx?sr…

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Your puzzle for today is: Boreas and Oreithyia by Evelyn De Morgan

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This painting is on display in the De Morgan Collection of pottery and paintings museum at Cannon Hall Museum, Park & Gardens read more about it here demorgan.org.uk/collection/bor…

Today is #DinosaurDay 'The Museum of Dinosaurs' by Brian Wildsmith

This artwork features in Paws, Claws, Tales & Roars: The Art of Brian Wildsmith exhibition.

This painting was inspired by the Natural History Museum, London

(c) Brian Wildsmith Estate & Oxford University Press

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Your puzzle for today is: 'Woman at a well' by Emanuel Murant

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Murant was a Dutch landscape artist who often included figures of this type in his paintings.

The De Morgan Collection of pottery and paintings museum on the top floor of the hall has a FREE digital guide

The app, powered by Bloomberg Connects offers audio tours so you can hear more stories about the beautiful De Morgan artworks.

You can also use the same app when you visit The Cooper Gallery

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Your puzzle for today is: Interior of a Courtyard by Giovanni Antonio Canaletto

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This painting is on display at Cannon Hall Museum, Park & Gardens

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The #OnlineArtExchange theme this week is silver and we've chosen 'Silver Moonlight, St Ives Bay' by
Albert Julius Olsson from Southampton City Art

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Your puzzle for today is: Fox Was So Hungry by Brian Wildsmith

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See this artwork on display when you visit the Brian Wildsmith exhibition!

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#WildsmithWednesday Your wordsearch this week is based on 'The School Play' from Brian Wildsmith's 'The Amazing World of Words'

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Have you visited the exhibition yet? What is your favourite illustration?

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Your puzzle for today is: Portrait of a Gentleman by John Michael Wright

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John Michael Wright was a British artist who was influenced by the Dutch style of painting

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Your puzzle for today is: Paws, Claws, Tails, & Roars: Brian Wildsmith

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The latest Brian Wildsmith book which the exhibition takes its name from! Available from our gift shop the next time you visit.

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Your puzzle for today is: 'Palazzo Rezzonico, Venice' by Arthur Joseph Meadows

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Meadows exhibited his landscapes at the Royal Academy between 1863 & 1872 so his name would have been familiar to S J Cooper

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Your puzzle for today is: Compositional study for ‘St Christina Giving her Father’s Jewels by Evelyn De Morgan

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Visit the De Morgan Collection of pottery and paintings museum at Cannon Hall Museum, Park & Gardens to see more work by the De Morgan's

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Your puzzle for today is: 'River Scene with Tower' by circle of Jan van Goyen

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Van Goyen was a Dutch artist who specialised in landscapes with a focus on the river and its surrounding landscape.

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Your puzzle for today is: 'Exterior of an Inn with Peasants Drinking' by David Teniers II

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This painting is from Cannon Hall Museum, Park & Gardens

Read about the artist: explorebarnsleycollections.com/Record.aspx?sr…

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Your puzzle for today is: The Museum of Dinosaurs by Brian Wildsmith

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(c) The Brian Wildsmith Estate and Oxford University Press

Your #WildsmithWedneday challenge this week is a Wordsearch

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Spend some time looking at 'Finally A Rainbow Appeared' an unpublished piece of art by Brian Wildsmith in the 1990s

barnsley-museums.com/wildsmith