Overview
- The display features a student sketch from Liverpool College of Art alongside three Hamburg‑period abstracts, including a collage using German newspaper fragments.
- Hereward Harrison received the pieces as gifts over a 50‑year friendship with Pauline Sutcliffe and had kept them framed at home.
- Harrison decided to share the works after a party conversation suggested contacting the Mathew Street museum.
- The items are newly added to the Liverpool Beatles Museum, which is owned by Roag Best, brother of original drummer Pete Best.
- Stuart Sutcliffe joined The Beatles after meeting John Lennon at art school, left in 1961 to pursue art, and died in 1962 at age 21.