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SUMMARY:Seeing the Spiritual: The Story of the Methodist Modern Art Collec
 tion
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lecture entitled 'Seeing the Spiritual: The Stor
 y of the Methodist Modern Art Collection'\, as part of our 'Global Connect
 ions' series of events.\n\nYou are invited to meet at 7pm for light refres
 hments\, with the lecture beginning at 7:30pm for around an hour\, with a 
 Q&A session following.\n\nAbout the lecture\nThe Methodist Modern Art Coll
 ection is the Methodist Church's response to the flourishing of religious 
 art in post-war Britain.  In the early 1960s it was the inspired initiativ
 e of a Methodist layman\, Dr John Morel Gibbs (1912 – 1996) from South W
 ales who began collecting with his friend the Revd Douglas Wollen (1909 
 – 1998) and quickly assembled a group of outstanding paintings illustrat
 ing aspects of the gospel narrative from Nativity to Pentecost\, with stre
 ngths in British 20th Century art.  Although influenced by the artworks co
 mmissioned for Llandaff and Coventry Cathedrals\, their unique Methodist a
 pproach was to create a touring collection that would be seen across the c
 ountry in art galleries\, churches and cathedrals.  Their inspired collect
 ing is illustrated by their first acquisition in 1962  - an example  South
  Asian art by  F N Souza – his powerful Crucifixion which is on loan to 
 Bradford Cathedral for Bradford 2025.\n\nIn this Friends of the MMAC lectu
 re\, the Chair of the Methodist Modern Art Collection\, art historian Prof
 essor Ann Sumner tells the unique story of the Collection which included w
 ell-known British 20th Century artists such as Edward Burra\, Elizabeth Fr
 ink\, Peter Howson  and has expanded to now include works by Patrick Heron
  and Maggi Hambling\, as well as world art by  Jyoti Sahi\, John Muafangej
 o\, and Sadao Watanabe.
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LOCATION:Bradford Cathedral
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