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Joint Social and Wine Reception with YPS
Joint Social and Wine Reception with YPS
These two venerable York Institutions, FYAG (founded 1948) and YPS (founded 1822) now support the York Museums Trust in its crucial cultural role in the City. This is an opportunity for members of both FYAG and YPS to meet and socialise together, hopefully as a first move for closer collaboration in the future. There will […]
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Artwork of the Month – Annunciation by Procaccini.
Artwork of the Month – Annunciation by Procaccini.
The next Gallery talk will be on Wednesday 8 October at 11.30am when the subject will be the painting Annunciation by Procaccini. Who was Giulio Cesare Procaccini? Why does his small-scale Annunciation in York Art Gallery deserve our special attention? Amanda Hilliam, art historian and Friends’ committee member, will explore the technique, function and significance […]
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Austen & Turner exhibition at Harewood House
Austen & Turner exhibition at Harewood House
*** 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 […]
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Curator talk on Medieval Percy Psalter-Hours
Curator talk on Medieval Percy Psalter-Hours
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. […]
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Visit to York Art Gallery Stores – morning
Visit to York Art Gallery Stores – morning
*** 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.
Visit to York Art Gallery Stores – afternoon
Visit to York Art Gallery Stores – afternoon
*** 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.