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Stunning artwork produced by a man inspired by Morecambe Bay is on show in Lancaster's City Museum. Titled ‘Reginald Aspinwall: a troubled landscape’, it focuses on a celebrated landscape painter who lived and worked in Lancaster from 1870 until his death in 1921. He painted many local scenes including Heysham beach, Sunderland Point and the fishermen of Morecambe Bay. But, as the title suggests, he enjoyed a mixed career. An alcoholic, the last few years of his life were spent in the workhouse and he died in the County Asylum (Lancaster Moor).
The exhibition is in partnership with the Harris Museum Art gallery & Library in Preston and includes letters and archive items relating to Aspinwall: interwoven with the artworks are anecdotes from the artist’s life.
The exhibition runs until Sunday 7th November.