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30 June 2005

We have the Skagen Painters on the Post this week, thanks to a fascinating exhibition at the Skagens Museum at the very tip of Denmark's Jutland peninsula. Like Newlyn in Cornwall, the small fishing village of Skagen attracted painters who came in the 1870s and 1880s for the light, landscape, and local subjects. The exhibition is the first there to show the group's own photographs from the museum's extensive collection. It was a tightly knit artists' colony and they took many photographs of each other - possibly their favourite subjects - in idyllic Danish summer settings, thus establishing a strong group identity. This is Henny Broderson with her daughters.

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