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Friends’ Gallery Talk

27 Jul 2025

*** Please note that this event starts at 11:30 *** The next Friends’ Gallery talk will be given by the Curator of Ceramics, Dr. Helen Walsh. Helen will be giving a tour of some of the most remarkable pots in the Gallery...

Normandy Tour – Monet and Giverny

27 Jul 2025

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...

Seminar on ‘Jephthah’ by John Everett Millais

24 Jul 2025

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...

Curator talk on Medieval Percy Psalter-Hours

7 Jul 2025

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...

Private Tour of Renishaw Hall

2 Jul 2025

*** Fully booked ***  Leaving Memorial Gardens at 11am we will drive by coach to Renishaw Hall, Derbyshire, where there will be time for a picnic or a meal in the café before our specialised tour of the Hall and its important art collection with the archivist, Chris...

Joint Social and Wine Reception with YPS

2 Jul 2025

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...

University of York Art collection: Behind the Scenes Tour

1 Jun 2025

*** Due to unforeseen circumstances this tour is postponed – participants will be contacted by the organiser *** This tour will have an exclusive look at some of the artwork and archival documents from the University of York’s art collection. With over 900...

Artwork of the Month – June 2025

27 May 2025

*** Please note that this event starts at 11:30 *** The subject of the next Gallery talk, to be given by Michael Dawson, a member of the Gallery’s Visitor Experience Team, will be Rose Wylie’s painting Early Morning Memory Series No.2 : Doodle Bug (YORAG :...

‘Balthazar’

21 May 2025

Artwork of the Month May 2025 Circle or Workshop of Pieter Coecke van Aelst c. 1530: Balthazar. Peter Gibbard, formerly Chair of the Friends, writes about Balthazar, also known as The Black African King, who is depicted in a 16th-century panel from a triptych of...

The ‘Picturesque in Britain’

21 May 2025

Our speaker for Artwork of the Month, April 2025, was Peter Miller, President of the Friends. His subject was ‘The Picturesque in Britain’. Two paintings from the Gallery stores were used to illustrate the talk: George Morland (1763-1804), A Gypsy...