Glaciers Exhibition - Featured Works on Watercolour World

Our current exhibition, 'Glaciers', is a wonderful opportunity to see paintings of mountain glaciers from the last 200 years. Featuring works from the likes of Ruskin and Loppé, the exhibition brings together some startlingly evocative pieces from our collection.

Find out how to visit here.

While there is a huge benefit to seeing these remarkable works in person, for those who are unable to attend, we are pleased to be able to provide online curations that together feature nearly all of the paintings in the exhibition.

The first is available on ArtUK, with the remaining pieces laid out below with links to view them on The Watercolour World which holds a large collection of digitised watercolour paintings, including many from the Alpine Club collections. To see a larger version of any of these images, simply right-click the painting in question. 

  
^{'Bachalpsee Glacier', Arthur Croft, (1874)}

^{'Breithorn Glacier', Unknown Artist}

 
^{'Part of the Oberland from the Simplon', Henry George Willink, (1880)}

^{'Fee Glacier and Allalinhorn', Hilda Marion Hechle}

^{'Mer de Glace - from the Montanvert', Unknown Artist, (1855)}

^{'Mer de Glace', Unknown Artist}

^{'Aiguille Verte and Dru', George Barnard, (1877)}

^{'Auldjo's Party Passing a Crevasse', John Auldjo, (1828)}

^{'The Ascent of Mont Blanc by John Auldjo's Party in 1827: Sheltering During a Storm', John Auldjo, (1828)}

Women With Altitude

From November 2021 to January 2022, the Alpine Club hosted a joint exhibition in partnership with the Pinnacle Club to celebrate the last century of female mountaineering. Held in the centenary year of the Pinnacle Club, the exhibition profiled 12 pioneering female climbers who had been members of one or both clubs in the previous 100 years. With the exhibition's run now at an end, we are making the exhibition materials available online. These include the complete displays for each of the 12 profiled women, a video walk through of the exhibition hosted by Alpine Club librarian Beth Hodgett and a collection of educational resources for young people that were produced to accompany the exhibition.

The sampling of the banners included below feature QR codes which, when scanned, will direct you to a sound recording of the profiled individual or a contemporary reading of something they wrote during their lifetime. To scan the QR code, simply click on the banner, select to expand it by using the icon in the top left corner of the image, focus on the QR code using your phone's camera and follow the link that is generated. The audio recording will play automatically.

Display Banners

 

The additional banners and photographs of the exhibition displays can be viewed in the exhibition booklet below:

Video Walk Through

Exhibition Videos

100 Years of the Pinnacle Club:

Educational Resources

A variety of resources were produced to accompany the exhibition and are tailored to young people from KS2 to KS4 (7-16). Click the link below to access a pdf booklet of the resources.