They took inspiration from the work of the medieval period - before Raphael - and focused on contemporary life. The Pre-Raphaelite artists were a group of artists and writers including Rossetti who disdained the Royal Academy’s focus on art in the holier-than-thou style of Renaissance painter Raphael. Said to be the largest collection of Pre-Raphaelite art outside of Britain, the museum’s collection started with works collected by Wilmington mill owner Samuel Bancroft and donated to the museum in 1935. The Delaware museum’s Pre-Raphaelite collection is one of its three core collections. RELATED STORY: Museum moves Pre-Raphaelite collection into “jewel box” of a gallery Lynford said the museum is already getting inquiries from as far as California about when the Tate show will be in Delaware so they can make travel arrangements.Ĭomplete details will be announced soon, a museum official said. Then prominent museums began doing the same thing a few years later, and suddenly the Delaware museum looked like a forward-thinking institution wisely making sure it was around to serve the Delaware community for another century.ĭelArt officials expect the Tate show to generate a lot of excitement in the region and beyond. It’s a real coup for DelArt, and evidence of the international importance of our beloved Bancroft collection.”īeing able to host the Tate show is a crowning moment for the Delaware Art Museum, which not so long ago had essentially been blackballed by the museum world for selling art works to clear debts. “We are delighted to loan these works to Tate Britain, but are even more thrilled that we will be the only US venue. “The Delaware Art Museum’s renowned Rossetti works of art are central to this exhibition,” said Molly Giordano, executive director of the Delaware Art Museum. The Delaware museum’s new Pre-Raphaelite curator Sophie Lynford told patrons Tuesday night that Tate curators told their Delaware counterparts that the Tate show could not be mounted unless it could borrow the Delaware works. It will then travel to Delaware, where it will end the Delaware Museum’s Year of Pre-Raphaelites, which has just begun. The show will run in London at Tate Britain from April 6 to Sept. The Tate show “ The Rossettis” will focus on the family of British Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti and will feature several pieces from the Delaware museum’s collection of Pre-Raphaelite Art. It’s a major get for the Wilmington institution, which will be the exhibit’s only stop in the United States. An exhibit from the Tate Museum in London will travel to the Delaware Art Museum in October 2023.
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