Expressionism, as practised by David Bomberg with whom he studied, made its mark on him early on.

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Upstairs, in a dining room available for hire, is museum-quality 20th-century British art, including works by David Bomberg, Jacob Kramer and Keith Vaughan.

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The modern and contemporary art collection comprises more than 1, 000 paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and sculpture which include works by Ben Nicholson, David Bomberg, LS Lowry, Stanley Spencer, Gwen John, David Hockney and Bridget Riley.

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" David Bomberg, a brilliant graduate of London's Slade School, who was painting admirably adventurous pictures of his own, remembered decades later that "the tense figure operating the Drill as if it were a Machine Gun" amounted to "a Prophetic Symbol of the impending war.

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