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Art, Power, Diplomacy

A new book tells the untold story of the Government Art Collection

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Tag Your Paintings!

We want you to tag GAC paintings on the Your Paintings website

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Museums at Night 2013

Curator's Choice – book for an evening tour of the GAC 17-18 May 2013

St. John's in the Vale, Cumbria by William Havell

Focus on women artists

There are about 540 women artists represented in the Collection

Boy's Head

May

Mark Wallinger's 1993 painting, 'Brown's (Mrs E.W. Brown)' is May's Featured Work.

Brown's (Mrs E.W. Brown) by Mark Wallinger