Hepworth Wakefield Acquires Second Artwork With JW Anderson Fund

Samantha Conti
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LONDON — The Hepworth Wakefield has purchased its second work or art with money from the JW Anderson Collections Fund.

The Yorkshire gallery said it acquired “A snake came to my coffee table on a hot, hot day to drink there,” by Andrew Cranston. The artist has described the painting as “an intrusion of something alien into the familiar, an unlikely presence, and threat into the domestic.”

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The work will go on display at The Hepworth Wakefield in November as part of “Andrew Cranston: What Made You Stop Here?,” the artist’s first U.K. institutional solo show.

Earlier this year, The Hepworth Wakefield became the inaugural recipient of the JW Anderson Collections Fund, which aims to support the acquisition of works by museums across the U.K.

Each year, a different collecting institution will receive 50,000 pounds to acquire works by artists who are underrepresented in the U.K.

Earlier this year, The Hepworth Wakefield purchased a large-scale charcoal drawing by Jake Grewal, which was displayed at the gallery in the spring.

Anderson has a longstanding relationship with The Hepworth Wakefield.

In 2017, he teamed with the gallery on a show called “Disobedient Bodies: JW Anderson Curates the Hepworth Wakefield,“ which examined clothing and the body as sculpture and the conversation between art and fashion.

It was also an homage to some of Anderson’s favorite fashion figures, including Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo, Jean Paul Gaultier, Issey Miyake, Helmut Lang and Christian Dior.

The designer continues to curate.

Last month, Anderson oversaw an exhibition celebrating the British capital at Offer Waterman, a blue-chip gallery specializing in modern and contemporary art.

Titled “On Foot,” the show mingles the fashions Anderson creates for his signature brand, and for the Spanish luxury house Loewe. The installations celebrate various aspects of London, from the “salubrious streets of Mayfair” to the “provocatively storied alleys of Soho,” according to the designer.

The show at Offer Waterman runs until Oct. 28 and features work by artists including Frank Auerbach, Sara Flynn, Lucian Freud, Barbara Hepworth, David Hockney, L. S. Lowry, Henry Moore, Cedric Morris, Magdalene Odundo, Jem Perucchini, Walter Sickert and Christopher Wood.

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