BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Friends of York Art Gallery - ECPv6.15.16//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Friends of York Art Gallery X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.friendsofyorkartgallery.co.uk X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Friends of York Art Gallery REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20270328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20271031T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260701T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260701T170000 DTSTAMP:20260822T214702 CREATED:20260316T090156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260410T120539Z UID:5451-1782918000-1782925200@www.friendsofyorkartgallery.co.uk SUMMARY:Hovingham Hall Visit DESCRIPTION:*** Fully booked ***Join us for a private tour of Hovingham Hall\, a beautiful family home\, 17 miles north of York. It was designed and built by Thomas Worsley c1770 and was the childhood home of the late Duchess of Kent. The house has an important collection of furniture and pictures and includes a magnificent domed ceiling\, a bust of Oliver Cromwell\, (an ancestor of the Worsleys)\, an enormous riding school\, a seventeenth century dovecot and the oldest continuously played on cricket ground in England. The attractive gardens and the adjacent parish church\, with Worsley memorials are well worth a visit after the house tour. Meet outside the entrance at 2pm. There is ample parking in the roads near the Hall and the Church.Cost: £28.50 to include tea/coffee and biscuits. Booking is essential. If paying by cheque\, please contact the organiser. \n \n Join waiting list URL:https://www.friendsofyorkartgallery.co.uk/event/hovingham-hall-visit/ LOCATION:Hovingham Hall\, Hovingham\, YO62 4LX ORGANIZER;CN="Cynthia Barbor":MAILTO:cynthia.barbor@hotmail.co.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260708T123000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260708T130000 DTSTAMP:20260822T214702 CREATED:20260616T125114Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260616T125119Z UID:5574-1783513800-1783515600@www.friendsofyorkartgallery.co.uk SUMMARY:Artwork of the month: Miss Chloe Preston by J J Shannon DESCRIPTION:The speaker for our next Gallery talk will be Peter Gibbard\, one of our most popular and revelatory speakers. His subject will be the portrait of the illustrator Chloe Preston\, dated 1909\, by James Jebusa Shannon\, which has been in the permanent collection since 1949. This beautiful portrait – just reference YORAG: 23 on-line for a preview – is physically large and very heavy in its original frame. The Curatorial team is moving it from Stores to the Gallery for the duration of the talk.Chloe was born and raised on the Moreby Hall estate\, south of York. When she sat for this portrait\, age 22\, she was on the cusp of a publishing career that would span 30+ years for children’s books\, greeting cards\, decorative ceramics and retail advertising. Her art is popular with collectors today! In 1909 Shannon was at the peak of his career; that year he would be elected to the Royal Academy. He was considered second only to his fellow American\, John Singer Sargent\, for portraiture in both of the highly competitive British ‘aristocracy/landed gentry’ and American ‘new money industrialist’ markets. Peter’s illustrated talk includes examples of Chloe Preston’s art and Shannon’s submission for election to the Royal Academy. Both achieved artistic and commercial success in their lifetimes. \nOur Artwork of the Month talks are free and booking is not required\, but members are reminded to show their membership card for free admittance to the Gallery. URL:https://www.friendsofyorkartgallery.co.uk/event/artwork-of-the-month-miss-chloe-preston-by-j-j-shannon/ LOCATION:York Art Gallery\, Exhibition Square\, York\, YO1 7EW\, United Kingdom ORGANIZER;CN="Ronald Clayton":MAILTO:ronaldwclayton@icloud.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260713 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260716 DTSTAMP:20260822T214702 CREATED:20260204T173257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260530T085907Z UID:5113-1783904400-1784077199@www.friendsofyorkartgallery.co.uk SUMMARY:Overnight visit to Stourbridge DESCRIPTION:*** Update: last available room has gone *** The Stourbridge area was a major centre of glassmaking for 400 years and was particularly well known for its fine lead crystal. Established by French refugees in the seventeenth century\, the industry thrived for many years\, until its decline in the latter part of the last century. This trip is an opportunity to visit three museums dedicated to the history of glassmaking – the Ruskin Glass Museum\, the Red House Glass Cone and the Stourbridge Glass Museum. \n \n \n \n \n \n Leaving the Memorial Gardens at 8am\, we will travel by coach to Calke Abbey. This remarkable house has been sensitively conserved by the National Trust. It has a wonderful display of Gilray cartoons and a large natural history collection. After a self-funded lunch at Calke\, we will travel to Ironbridge where we will visit Ironbridge Gorge and possibly the Jackfield Tile Museum. We will stay overnight at the Valley Hotel\, Ironbridge on a dinner\, bed\, and breakfast basis. On Tuesday we will travel to Stourbridge visiting three glass museums. Firstly\, the Ruskin glass museum where we will have a talk by the curator and visit the extensive artists’ studios. From there we will travel to the Red House Glass Cone Museum\, with over 230 years of history of glassmaking. Here we will have an introductory talk and lunch before walking the short distance to the Stourbridge Glass Museum. Here we will have a tour of the museum and tea and coffee before travelling back to York\, arriving approximately by 7 30pm. \nCost £320 per person to include all travel costs\, dinner\, bed and breakfast\, buffet lunch\, tea and coffee at Stourbridge Museum and all entry fees\, National Trust properties excluded (NT members get free entry). \nBook with a non-refundable deposit of £50\, balance due on or before 12 June. \n \n Click here to book URL:https://www.friendsofyorkartgallery.co.uk/event/overnight-visit-to-stourbridge/ ORGANIZER;CN="Dorothy Nott":MAILTO:wattnott24@icloud.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR