University College London

Events at University College London

• 18th and 19th Century British

  Exhibition

  Recurring event

  The Collections of the Strang Print Room are particularly rich in 18th and 19th Century British works of art. Many of these were part of the 1900 gift of Henry Vaughan to UCL. Vaughan was a renowned collector of old master prints and drawings and of 18th and 19th Century British art, who left oil paintings by Turner and Constable to the National Gallery and drawings by Michelangelo to the British Museum. There are only 12 Little Liber prints, and all of them depict effects of light and weather. Rather than employing professional printmakers, Turner engraved these plates himself. The most spectacular of these were a fireworks display and an eruption of Vesuvius.

   

• A Tribute to Bartolomeu dos Santos

  Exhibition

  3 Jun 2009 to 22 Dec 2009

  This exhibition shows a selection of the prints of Bartolomeu dos Santos to commemorate his long association with the Slade and UCL as a student in the 1950s and as a teacher and Professor of Printmaking from the 1960s until his retirement in 1996. The exhibition include early nudes, still lifes and cityscapes and a series of spectacular imaginary architectural constructions from the 1970s inspired by the work of Piranesi and Jorge Luis Borges.

   

• A Tribute to Bartolomeu dos Santos

  Exhibition

  3 Jun 2009 to 22 Dec 2009

  This exhibition shows a selection of the prints of Bartolomeu dos Santos (1931-2008) to commemorate his long association with the Slade and UCL as a student in the 1950s and as a teacher and Professor of Printmaking from the 1960s until his retirement in 1996. It includes early nudes, still-lifes and cityscapes made as a Slade student in the 1950s, and a series of spectacular imaginary architectural constructions from the 1970s inspired by the work of Piranesi and Jorge Luis Borges. More light-hearted works include menus and invitations to Slade parties from the 1990s.

   

• The Collection - 18th and 19th Century British

  Exhibition

  Recurring event

  The Collections of the Strang Print Room are particularly rich in 18th and 19th-century British works of art. Many of these were part of the 1900 gift of Henry Vaughan to UCL. Vaughan was a renowned collector of old master prints and drawings and of 18th and 19th-century British art, who left oil paintings by Turner and Constable to the National Gallery and drawings by Michelangelo to the British Museum.