Artwork of the Month talks are held regularly at the Gallery and speakers are encouraged to submit articles or notes based on their talks for publication here. Most of the talks listed below, however, were produced in the days of the Covid pandemic when in-person talks were not possible.
Artwork of the Month – April 2020
Study for ‘Nameless and Friendless’ by Emily Mary Osborn (1828-1925). Dorothy Nott, a former Chair of the Friends, writes about a remarkable small painting in the Gallery's collection. 'Nameless and Friendless' was painted as a study for a larger work, which was...
Artwork of the Month: September
This month's artwork is Albert Moore’s A Venus (1869). Marte Stinis, a PhD student at the University of York, writes about one of the most important paintings in York Art Gallery, by the York-born Victorian artist Albert Moore, a pioneering figure in the aesthetic...