ADDRESS
Kendal
Cumbria
LA9 5AL
Tel: +44 (0) 1539 722464
Fax: +44 (0) 1539 722494
email: info@abbothall.org.uk
web site: www.abbothall.org.uk

Abbot Hall has the reputation of being one of the finest small art galleries in the country. The collections are housed in an 18th century Georgian villa, built on the banks of the River Kent in Kendal. Like Blackwell, only ten miles away, the building was saved by the Lakeland Arts Trust, restored and opened to the public as a gallery. It too is architecturally important and also carries the highest level of listing, Grade I.  

Since Abbot Hall opened in 1962, both it's collections and the reputation of the exhibition programme have continued to grow. Today the gallery has a very fine collection of British Art, including important key works by such artists as Romney, Turner, Ruskin, Schwitters, Ben Nicholson and Frank Auerbach. In recent years exhibitions of national importance have been shown at Abbot Hall, with Lucian Freud in 1996, Bridget Riley in 1998/9, Paula Rego in 2001, Euan Uglow in 2003 and Walter Richard Sickert in 2004.

As well as Fine Art, the collections include furniture from the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, objets d'art, craft work and examples of the applied arts.

For further information about Abbot Hall, please visit www.abbothall.org.uk