Events

*** This tour is fully booked *** The Group will meet at Harewood House at 1.20 (self-transport) for a tour conducted by two members of the curating team from the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of University of York: Dr Richard Johns, an expert on Turner, and Professor Chloe Wigston-Smith, currently Director of […]

Eleanor Jackson, the new Curator of Fine Art at York Art Gallery, acquired an illuminated manuscript for the British Library that was made in York around 1300. She subsequently identified the original owners: Robert and Margery de Percy of Bolton Percy near York. She will talk about this process, and about the manuscript’s wider significance. […]

*** Fully booked *** This is an opportunity to see some of the large collection of paintings held in the Art Gallery’s stores. As the space is small, numbers will be restricted to a maximum of 10 for each session.

*** Fully booked *** This is an opportunity to see some of the large collection of paintings held in the Art Gallery’s stores. As the space is small, numbers will be restricted to a maximum of 10 for each session.

A seminar to be held at the Bedingfield Room, Bar Convent, Blossom Street, on Tuesday 4 November at 10.30am. Over two sessions, 10.30 - 11.15 and 11.45 - 12.30 with a break for coffee and cookie, the speaker, Maddie Hewitson will explore Jephthah, one of John Everett Millais’ major religious paintings. This talk will explore […]

A selling exhibition to raise funds for the Friends of York Art Gallery The exhibition will open with a private view on 5 November (booking is essential) and will then be open (booking not required) from 12 midday to 4pm on November 6, 7, 8 and 12, 13, 14, 15. For the first time in […]

This four-day coach tour of Normandy has been arranged for the Friends by Travel Editions and includes visits to sites associated with Impressionism and Monet, including Giverny, Rouen and Honfleur. Accommodation will be at the Radison Blu Hotel, Rouen. The tour starts at Ashford in Kent where we will join the coach for the journey […]