Collections

This display focuses on portrait busts and sketches from the Leeds sculpture and archive collections, c.1900 to 1970.

It includes work by artists such as Jacob Epstein, Gertrude Hermes, Fritz Kormis, Joan Moore, Ivor Roberts-Jones, Alfred Toft, William Hamo Thornycroft and Charles Wheeler.

Talking Heads displays many commissioned portraits, but also many more intimate and informal representations of children, family, friends and lovers. Displayed alongside the heads are casts and models of hands, often the artists' own.