Focus on Salem (painting) and discuss the Exhibition.
The painting is on display at the Lady Lever Art Gallery at Port Sunlight, though there have been several attempts to permanently house it within Wales, most notably by a campaign in 2005 headed by Plaid Cymru's culture spokesman Owen John Thomas. In 2013 it formed the centrepiece of a temporary exhibition at the Gwynedd Museum and Art Gallery in Bangor.Many Welsh museums and galleries hold and exhibit paintings by Vosper from the same period. Most notably, National Museum Cardiff houses Market Day in Old Wales (1908), a later painting featuring Siân Owen. Often considered a sister work, the painting was gifted to the museum by Constance Vosper's brother, Frank Treharne James, in 1914. Speaking in 2005 on the possibility of acquiring Salem, the Museum's director said that "It was commissioned by the Lever family therefore belongs in the gallery they created, now belonging to the National Museums Liverpool".
Owen John Thomas Plaid Cymru Gwynedd Wales National Museum Cardiff Port Sunlight Lady Lever Art Gallery Bangor