{"id":206163,"date":"2025-10-11T23:09:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T23:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/206163\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T23:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T23:09:15","slug":"appeal-to-find-lost-artworks-of-stoke-on-trents-arthur-berry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/206163\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal to find lost artworks of Stoke-on-Trent’s Arthur Berry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chloe HughesWest Midlands<\/p>\n

\"BarewallBarewall Art Gallery\/Berry Estate<\/p>\n

Arthur Berry would have turned 100 this year, and is being celebrated with a series of events<\/p>\n

Lost work by an artist, playwright and poet from Stoke-on-Trent is being sought, after it was discovered many of his pieces were undocumented.<\/p>\n

Arthur Berry, who was born in 1925 and died in 1994, was often referred to as “the Lowry of the Potteries”, and his work captured working-class life in north Staffordshire.<\/p>\n

This year would be his 100th birthday, and a local museum is urging anyone with a piece of his art to come forward so it can be catalogued and used in a digital gallery archive, safeguarding his legacy.<\/p>\n

“The discovery of any lost artworks would be hugely significant,” said Barewall Art Gallery’s director Amanda Bromley.<\/p>\n

“Having grown up alongside Stoke-on-Trent, Berry’s work across painting, poetry, plays and beyond has traced the changing face of the city across a century of its life. <\/p>\n

“His art stands as a vital chronicle of working-class experience, and uncovering further pieces will broaden our insight into his practice and strengthen his legacy.”<\/p>\n

Pieces brought to the museum in October will be sensitively unframed, photographed, and reframed. <\/p>\n

Owners will receive a certificate of authentication.<\/p>\n

\"BarewallBarewall Art Gallery\/Berry Estate<\/p>\n

Works can be taken to the museum in October to be catalogued<\/p>\n

Works of particular interest to the museum team are those sold or gifted before 2012, with a focus on those created prior to 1985.<\/p>\n

When the city’s Potteries Museum and Art Gallery staged a retrospective of Berry’s work in 1984, the exhibition featured 113 pieces, but the whereabouts of only a small number of those are known.<\/p>\n

Slides discovered in Berry’s studio after his death in 1994 also suggest further artworks are yet to be located. <\/p>\n

Pieces currently missing include Asbestos Garage, the still life Apples and Mugs, and The Lovers.<\/p>\n

The project forms part of Arthur Berry 100 – a year-long programme of exhibitions, performances, workshops, films and more – delivered through partners including the New Vic Theatre and Staffordshire Film Archive.<\/p>\n

The museum added that the rediscoveries would add to the collective understanding of Berry’s extraordinary contribution to 20th Century art and culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chloe HughesWest Midlands Barewall Art Gallery\/Berry Estate Arthur Berry would have turned 100 this year, and is being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-206163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}