Leeds - City Art Gallery

On the east side of Victoria Square in Calvery Street is the Leeds City Art Gallery, opened in 1888, which has a fine collection of works by British artists, with particular emphasis on the 20th C. English water color painting is also well represented with 750 pictures by J.S. Cotman (1782-1842), one of the leading members of the Norwich School, mainly East Anglian landscapes. There are also works by Constable and Gainsborough together with the Italian and French masters (including Courbet, Corot, Renoir, Signac). The Henry Moore Sculpture Galleries contain works by the artist and sculptures by his contemporaries Jacob Epstein and Barbara Hepworth.