The George Dannatt Trust, a registered charity, was established in 1986 by collectors George & Ann Dannatt. The primary purposes of the trust are to further the education of the public in the visual arts and, in support of this, to promote the work of George Dannatt as an artist and to manage the George & Ann Dannatt collection of post war lyrical abstract artworks primarily associated with the St. Ives (West Penwith) area.
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.
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…
2019: ANN DANNATT CENTENARY YEAR
The Trustees, friends and supporters of the George Dannatt Trust warmly congratulate Ann Dannatt who is celebrating her centenary year. Ann 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 Quaker School then trained at the Royal Institute…
