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Visit to Brockfield Hall
Visit to Brockfield Hall
*** This event is fully booked *** Brockfield Hall was built for Benjamin Agar by Peter Atkinson, a junior partner of John Carr. It is owned by Charlie and Hatta Wood, who have recently undertaken a major restoration with the aim of bringing the house back to its original 1804 design, but at the same […]
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Thomas Lawrence: Coming of Age
Thomas Lawrence: Coming of Age
A talk by Amina Wright, curator of historic art collections, exhibitions, and interiors formerly for English Heritage, and the Holburne Museum in Bath. She is now Senior Curator of the Faith Museum in Bishop Auckland. She has published a special study of Sir Thomas Lawrence, and will share with us some of the findings of […]
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Artwork of the Month talk
Artwork of the Month talk
This month's Gallery talk will be given by Amelie Castellant, a postgraduate student at the Department of History of Art, University of York, on Wednesday 8 May at 1pm. The title, which sounds intriguing, is 'Seeing Scuptures and Touching Pictures'. Why do we enjoy touching sculptures, such as Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Portrait Bust of Alfred Wolmark and […]
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Day trip to Cambridge
A coach visit to Kettle's Yard and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, leaving Memorial Gardens at 08:00 and aiming to return to York at 20:00. There will be no group booking for lunch; there is a small café at Kettle’s Yard and a major one in the Fitzwilliam. In the late 1950s, Jim Ede, one-time curator […]
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Garsington Opera and Vale of Aylesbury tour
The Friends of York Art Gallery have the exciting opportunity of visiting the Garsington Opera Festival during a short 3 day trip from 31st May to 2 June 2024.The Festival is held in the beautiful grounds of Womersley Park, the home of the Getty family. The operas are staged in a specially designed Opera Pavilion […]