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Beyond Impressionism: The Legacy of Gwendoline and Margaret Davies is the title of a talk to be given in Carmarthen next week. The talks is by Professor Robert Meyrick of Aberystwyth University. Details - Friday 7 April 2017, 2pm Admission Free Talk in Carmarthen Library followed by tea and cake at the Oriel Myrddin Gallery. Discover how the philanthropic Davies sisters from mid Wales gave back to the Welsh communities who helped make their fortune and amassed one of the great 20th Century art collections, bequeathed to the National Museum of Wales, providing a valuable cultural resource for the nation. If you’re not a member of U3A come along to find out more about it. The event is part of Oriel Myrddin Gallery's 50+ programme.

This spring the Royal Academy of Arts in London presents an exhibition of prints by Stanley Anderson RA (1884-1966) curated by Professor Robert Meyrick and Dr Harry Heuser of the School of Art, Aberystwyth University. It is one of a series of exhibitions and catalogues raisonné celebrating the work of Royal Academician printmakers. A fully illustrated and annotated catalogue raisonné of prints published by the Royal Academy coincides with the launch of the exhibition. Written by Robert Meyrick and Harry Heuser, it provides an in-depth assessment of Anderson’s oeuvre. Today, Stanley Anderson is best known for his series of engravings memorialising Britain’s vanishing crafts, trades and farming practices. These carefully observed and meticulously executed portraits of traditional occupations provide us with a pictorial record of life and work in mid-twentieth century rural Britain. Presented together with Anderson’s earlier, lesser-known drypoints of urban life, they form a composite...