Drawing on The Fan Museum's extensive collections of over 3,500 fans, The Music of the Fans shows how music has featured on fans over the centuries. Bringing together musical personalities as diverse as Wagner and Gilbert & Sullivan the exhibition includes works by famous artists including a recent acquisition painted by Walter Sickert. This important work, created by Sickert around 1889 as a gift to his friend and fellow painter Florence Pash (Mrs A A Humphrey), depicts Little Dot Hetherington singing 'The Boy I Love is up in the Gallery', a song made famous by Marie Lloyd, and performing on the London stage at the Old Bedford Theatre in Camden. All of the fans on display feature musical instruments, musical themes and, where possible, the musical instruments themselves are displayed alongside the fans on which they feature. A visit to the exhibition is something of an education with little known facts about music in fan art revealed. Did you know, for example, that the bagpipes had an erotic connotation in 17th and 18th century Dutch painting, on account of their shape? You can also find out why the lyre is used so extensively in decorative art at this fascinating exhibition.
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