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In the Tropics by Patricia Ramsay

27 Oct 2023

Artwork of the Month October 2023 Click on the button below to access the article about Patricia Ramsay’s painting, In the Tropics, by Peter Gibbard, formerley Chair of the Friends. Click...

e-Bulletin no 8

22 Sep 2023

e-Bulletin no. 8 A miscellany of articles by members of the Friends, all with relevance to the Gallery’s collection or activities of the Friends. Click the button below to open the bulletin. Click...

Artwork of the Month: John Coplans’ Frieze No.6

22 Sep 2023

December’s artwork of the month talk will be delivered by Professor Michael White of the History of Art Department, University of York. His subject will be John Coplans’ Frieze No.6. In the age of Instagram and the ubiquitous ‘selfie,’ it would...

Artwork of the Month: The Visitor by Nan Hudson

22 Sep 2023

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...
William Etty talk

William Etty talk

21 Sep 2023

Dr Beatrice Bertram, Senior Curator, will give a talk  ‘The Key to the Secret’: William Etty’s Venetian Colouring, on 2 November, 2pm – 4pm at York Medical Society Rooms, Stonegate Click here to book. The York-born artist and Royal Academician William Etty did...

Artwork of the Month: In the Tropics by Patricia Ramsey

18 Sep 2023

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...

The Flagellation of Saint Barbara by Hans Siebenbürger

1 Aug 2023

Artwork of the Month July 2023 The Flagellation of Saint Barbara by Hans Siebenbürger Click on the button below to read the article by John Roe, Secretary of the Friends, in which he explores the origins and imagery of this fifteenth-century oil-on-wood painting, a...

Visit the Friends’ Fine Art Store – Group 2

1 Aug 2023

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...

Visit the Friends’ Fine Art Store

1 Aug 2023

*** 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...