Events

Dr Cristina Figueredo, a medieval specialist, who will be well known to many of our members, will conduct a seminar on the Luttrell Psalter. This striking manuscript, commissioned by Sir Geoffrey Luttrell, over 700 years ago, gives lively scenes of everyday life in the fourteenth -century in fascinating detail. A table will be reserved for […]

This is a tour, led by Laura Turner, Creative Producer at Beningbrough Hall, of the new exhibition Inspired by Italy, which opens on 16 September. Many Friends will remember Laura Turner from her time as senior curator at York Art Gallery. After the tour, Laura suggests that we visit the interior of the Hall, which […]

*** Fully booked *** A talk by Dr Suzanne Fagence Cooper, whose recent book, How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William Morris, explores the couple's life and legacies and finally gives Jane the attention she deserves. We are delighted to welcome back Suzanne, who is a popular Friends of York Art Gallery […]

October's artwork of the month talk will be delivered by Peter Gibbard, formerly Chair of the Friends. His subject will be Patricia Ramsey, whose painting In the Tropics is in the ‘Bloom’ exhibition. Born HRH Victoria Patricia at Buckingham Palace in 1886, she was the youngest child of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, and […]

The Friends of York Art Gallery are planning a trip to Colchester, starting on 9 October. Leaving from Memorial Gardens we will travel to Woolsthorpe Manor, the home of Isaac Newton and his famous apple tree where you will be able to see and try out some of his most important scientific discoveries. After lunch […]

*** Fully Booked *** "The Civic and The Global: The Cultural Mission of the Victoria and Albert Museum" To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the Friends of York Art Gallery, Tristram Hunt, the Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, has kindly agreed to give this talk to help raise funds for […]

This talk, by York Art Gallery’s Senior Curator, Dr Beatrice Bertram, will illuminate York-born artist William Etty’s zealous pursuit of the elusive ‘secret’ behind Venetian colouring. She will retrace the artist’s adventures across Continental Europe as he sought to emulate the Venetian masters in his own practice. This presentation is particularly timely, as the Gallery […]

Revisiting The Visitor by Nan Hudson, currently hanging in the Burton Gallery, Richard Green will recount the intriguing story of how a rare work by this expatriate American painter came to be in the York collection. A pupil and friend of Walter Sickert, Hudson divided her time between England and France, though much preferring the […]

*** Fully booked *** A guided tour of the Friends' Fine Art Store, led by Rob Wake, Curatorial Assistant at York Art Gallery. This is the first of two groups and will meet at the Gallery at 10:25. There are a maximum of 12 places. It is a decade since the Friends of York Art […]

A guided tour of the Friends' Fine Art Store, led by Rob Wake, Curatorial Assistant at York Art Gallery. This is the second of two groups and will meet at the Gallery at 11:55. There are a maximum of 12 places. Click here to book It is a decade since the Friends of York Art […]