Messum's
Messum's is an arts organization based in England that includes art galleries, venues, and an online art exchange platform. The original gallery was founded in 1963 by David Messum. Its group of venues includes Messums Wiltshire, an art venue that is located inside a 13th-century tithe barn.
History
David Messum Fine Art was an art gallery founded in 1963 in Bury Street, St. James's, London run by David Messum, with a branch in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. Messums staged exhibitions of British impressionism, and in 1985 David Messum's publishing company published British Impressionism: A Garden of Bright Images by Laura Wortley.The gallery exhibits contemporary art and work by British impressionists, modern and figurative painters and sculptors. Messums has promoted the work of the early Newlyn and St Ives painters. In 2012, a proposed development in Cork Street threatened to cause Messum's to move.
In 2016, David's son, Johnny Messum, founded an art gallery based in the tithe barn at Place Farm, Tisbury, Wiltshire.
Messums Org is a nonprofit organization with a branch in London known as Messums London, with sculpture and focus on Arte Povera. They have held more than 114 exhibitions with 160 artists, mostly in London. Messums Org participated in 3 art fairs, including twice in the British Art Fair 2019 in London and once in Photo London in the UK.