British artist Sir Alfred J. Munnings, P.R.A., will be in close focus at the National Sporting Library & Museum in April 2013 with the opening of Munnings: Out in the Open, an exhibition of over fifty paintings assembled by the Museum. A second exhibition in the Library called Sir Alfred Munnings in Print and a private screening of Summer in February a film produced in the U.K. that revolves around an artists' colony on the coast of Cornwall where Munnings lived before the First World War will enlarge the focus on Munnings' life and work.

Summer in February starring Dominic Cooper, Dan Stevens and Emily Browning will be shown April 21st. Based on Jonathan Smith's 1996 novel of the same title, the film explores the period in the mid-1910s when Munnings spent time among fellow plein air painters in the Lamorna artist colony on the Cornish Coast.

Among the guests at the screening will be film producer Jeremy Cowdrey and author Jonathan Smith. Also present will be H. E. The Ambassador of the United Kingdom, Sir Peter John Westmacott, Honorary Chairman and Mrs. Robert H. Smith, Event Chairman. The evening is an NSLM fundraiser.

For more information about the event, please contact: Holly@webstergroupinc.com, 202.741.1294.