Free continuing display of Joe Scarborough's nine-and-a-half-metre panorama of Sheffield landmarks and events from 1940, in the Picturing Sheffield gallery at Weston Park Museum.
Joe Scarborough's Sheffield Through the Ages is on continuing display at Weston Park Museum, where it hangs in the Picturing Sheffield gallery. It's a city panorama nine and a half metres long and over two metres high, making it the largest object in the city's collections. It took six years to complete and works as a visual walk through Sheffield starting in 1940, with newspaper headlines, current events, music and local landmarks running around the edge. Museums Sheffield acquired it in 2014, and it's been on view since.
Scarborough is one of the city's most-loved artists, born in Pitsmoor in 1938 and now living on a narrowboat in Victoria Quays. He didn't start painting until after six years as a coal labourer at Thorpe Hesley Colliery, inspired by the light and colour of the world above. His work celebrates working people and their South Yorkshire communities, with Norman Wilkinson as a major influence. He held his first one-man show in 1973 and was awarded a star on the Walk of Fame outside Sheffield Town Hall in 2008. Sheffield Through the Ages is his most ambitious piece, a panorama that lets you trace the city's changes over the decades.
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Weston Park Museum, on Western Bank, opened in 1875 and is where the painting hangs. Entry is free, though the museum asks for a donation of £5. It's open Tuesday to Saturday 10am–5pm and Sunday 11am–4pm, and closed on Mondays, including Bank Holidays.
