Eleven Heroes
![Photo of Anne Frank on a multi-coloured wall hanging](https://collections.reading.ac.uk/art-collections/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Anne-Frank-823x365.jpg)
This unique variation Eleven Heroes: Diversity 1138 from the artist Linda Stein’s Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females series celebrates female heroism during the Second World War. It memorialises eleven women whose lives […]
Rubens to Sickert: The Study of Drawing
![Rubens to Sickert: The Study of Drawing. Featuring the top half of a cartoon of J.A. Betts with upraised hand, by John Gilroy.](https://collections.reading.ac.uk/art-collections/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Facebook-post.jpg)
James Anthony Betts (1897 – 1980) led the School of Art at the University of Reading from 1933 – 1963. His most important legacy is the little-known collection of master […]
Art on Campus
![Whiteknights campus from the air: Edith Morley, Minghella, Whiteknights House, Henley Business School and Old Whiteknights House. Still image taken from 4K drone footage. Summer 2015.](https://collections.reading.ac.uk/art-collections/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/campus-hub.jpg)
Take a closer look at some of the art on display around the Whiteknights Campus
Pandora
![Pandora by John Dickson Batten, 1913](https://collections.reading.ac.uk/art-collections/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/Pandora-online-exhibition-copy-1568x1062.jpg)
Painted in 1913 by John Dickson Batten, ‘Pandora’ was exhibited at the Royal Academy in the same year; it came into the possession of University College Reading soon afterwards. The artist, […]