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The George Dannatt Trust

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    • THE GEORGE DANNATT TRUST
      • TRUSTEES
        • STAFF
    • THE COLLECTORS
      • GEORGE DANNATT (1915-2009)
        • A BROTHER’S MEMOIR
        • MY UNCLE GEORGE
      • ANN DANNATT (1919-2019)
      • ST IVES AND BRITISH MODERNISM: THE GEORGE AND ANN DANNATT COLLECTION
  • ACTIVITIES
    • PROJECTS
      • 2017-2020: PALLANT HOUSE GALLERY LIBRARY PROJECT
      • 2016-2019: SCULPTURE CONSERVATION PROJECT
        • CONSERVATION PROJECT PRESS RELEASE
    • EXHIBITIONS
      • 2019: ANN DANNATT CENTENARY EXHIBITION
      • 2018: LONDON & CORNWALL
      • 2016: WILTSHIRE
      • 2015-2016: CENTENARY EXHIBITIONS
    • BEQUESTS
  • NEWS
    • 2018: HEPWORTH WAKEFIELD PRINT FAIR
    • 2017: ARTWORK GIFTED TO UNIVERSITY COLLECTION
    • 2017: PALLANT HOUSE GALLERY COURSE
  • CONTACT
The George Dannatt Trust, a registered charity, was established in 1986 by collectors George and Ann Dannatt. The primary purpose of the Trust is to advance understanding and appreciation of the visual arts.

ABOUT

For more than half a century, between 1955 and 2009, two remarkable individuals, George and Ann Dannatt, devoted themselves single-mindedly to collecting the work of artists such as Patrick Heron, Terry Frost, Bryan Wynter, Peter Lanyon, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, John Wells and Paul Feiler, as well as many others with St Ives connections such as William Scott, Robert Adams, Roger Hilton, John Tunnard and Alfred Wallis.

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ACTIVITIES

Beginning in 1995, discussions were held with various organisations with a view to making gifts.  Most recently, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester and Southampton City Art Gallery  became the recipients of two bequests.  The Pallant House Gift includes one and half thousand books on art history, aesthetics and criticism together with art periodicals and books illustrated by artists, some of…

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ANN DANNATT (1919-2019)

Ann Dannatt (1919-2019) was born in York to Steelworks Industrialist Basil Doncaster and his wife Mary, and lived in Sheffield, the youngest of four siblings. Ann attended Polam Hall School then trained at the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors in Housing Estate Management.  Ann met and married George Dannatt (1915-2009) in 1943.  George was a…

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