Catalogue Series
Of the 200,000 oil paintings in public ownership in the UK, around 80% are not on public view. Many are held in storage or civic buildings without routine public access. At the same time, many of these collections have incomplete cataloguing records; very few have more than a small proportion of their paintings photographed, and hardly any collection has a complete illustrated catalogue of its oil paintings in book form or online. Since 2003, The Public Catalogue Foundation has been working to rectify this through a series of colour catalogues.
The Oil Paintings in Public Ownership series is being published by The PCF mainly on a county-by-county basis. A volume brings together from a county all the oil, acrylic and tempera paintings in museum collections, together with paintings held in civic buildings such as town halls, libraries, universities, hospitals and fire stations. Each county catalogue contains a colour photograph and basic information about each painting. All paintings are reproduced regardless of quality or condition.
The PCF’s first catalogue was published in June 2004. Since then 32 catalogues have been printed (see Publications). There will eventually be 90 catalogues in the series covering the whole of the UK, and the series is expected to be completed in 2012.
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