Áiléar Crawford | |
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 Main entrance on Emmet Place | |
  Location within Cork Central | |
| Established | 1850 (as Cork School of Design) 1880 (as Crawford Art School) 1979 (as Crawford Art Gallery) |
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| Location | Emmet Place, Cork, Ireland |
| Coordinates | 51°53′59″N 8°28′24″W / 51.8998°N 8.4733°W |
| Type | Municipal art gallery |
| Key holdings | Greek and Roman sculpture casts (1818) |
| Collection size | c.4,000 works[1] |
| Visitors | 265,438 (2019)[2] |
| Website | crawfordartgallery |
The Crawford Art Gallery (Irish: Áiléar Crawford)[3] is a public art gallery and museum in the city of Cork, Ireland. Known informally as the Crawford,[4] it was designated a 'National Cultural Institution' in 2006.[5] It is "dedicated to the visual arts, both historic and contemporary", and welcomed 265,438 visitors in 2019.[2] The gallery is named after William Horatio Crawford. [6]
- ^ "About the Permanent Collection". Official Website. Crawfordartgallery.ie. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
- ^ a b "Popular Cork gallery breaks record for visitor numbers". Echo Live. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
- ^ "Crawford Art Gallery Cork / Áiléar Crawford Chorcaigh". Official Website. Crawfordartgallery.ie. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ "Cork Profile – Artist and lecturer in CIT Crawford School of Art". Cork Independent. 15 September 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ "Crawford Art Gallery Service Level Agreement" (PDF). Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. April 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 December 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ "Crawford Art Gallery". Cork City Council. Retrieved 4 December 2022.