A Cornish art gallery and museum will stage a major exhibition celebrating artists of the Lamorna Colony this summer.

Penlee House Gallery and Museum, Penzance will showcase the exhibition which features more than 60 paintings from public collections such as Tate and the Walker Art Gallery as well as from private collections.

The exhibition, Lamorna Colony Pioneers, will be an overview of the colony from its founding just after the run of the 20th century, right through to the 1960s.

The art colony that formed in the Lamorna Valley, four miles west of Newlyn, came into being several decades after those at Newlyn and St Ives, once the granite quarries that had operated there until the late 19th century had begun to close.

Elizabeth and Stanhope Forbes used the valley as inspiration for themselves and the students at their painting school in the early 20th century.

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Other pioneers from the inter-war years featured in the exhibition will include Frank Gascoigne Heath, Eleanor and Robert Hughes, Stanley Gardiner and Charles Simpson. The exhibition will also include later avant-garde artists such as Hannah Gluckstein, known simply as ‘Gluck’, Marlow Moss, John Armstrong, John Tunnard and Ithell Colquhoun.

Katie Herbert, curator / deputy director said: “This is the first time that Penlee House Gallery has staged an exhibition that focuses on the artists of Lamorna as a whole and it is fascinating to explore how they inter-connect in terms of location and a shared sense of place rather than artistic style.”

The exhibition has been curated in conjunction with David Tovet, who has just published the two-volume book Lamorna – An Artistic, Social and Literary History.

Lamorna Colony Pioneers will be on display at Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance from May 3 until September 30.