The Public Catalogue Foundation

This is a registered charity, which is launching a fascinating project. As claimed, Britain has the biggest public-owned oil painting collections in the world but four in five of the paintings are not on view with lack of funding and exhibition spaces. To make the publicly owned art more publicly accessible, the Foundation aims to create a complete series of catalogues of the nation’s collection of oil, tempera and acrylic paintings. Catalogues have been published, which provide high-quality illustrations and brief introductions to each painting. The Foundation hopes in the future the audience will also get access to the resource via a free Internet website. The sale of the catalogues contributes to the funding for the conservation, restoration and physical exhibition of works that are rarely on display as well as gallery education related to the catalogues.

What an ambition. What a beneficial project it will be to both the general pblic and scholars. I wish we Taiwan also will have such an organization in the near future!