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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...

Surgeon Waiting by Barbara Hepworth

29 Mar 2025

Artwork of the Month March 2025 Barbara Hepworth, Surgeon Waiting (1948) Dorothy Nott, formerley Chair of the Friends, gave the Artwork of the Month talk for March 2025. Her subject was Surgeon Waiting by Barbara Hepworth. Click...

Stanley Spencer, The Deposition and Rolling Away of the Stone (1956)

23 Feb 2025

Artwork of the Month February 2025 Stanley Spencer, The Deposition and Rolling Away of the Stone (1956) Lauren Marohn, this year’s MA Bursary Holder, has a special interest in modern religious art. Here she writes about one of the Gallery’s most striking images. Click...

Visit to York Art Gallery Stores – afternoon

7 Feb 2025

*** 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...

Visit to York Art Gallery Stores – morning

7 Feb 2025

*** 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...

Tour of Thirsk Sculpture Park and Thirsk Hall

7 Feb 2025

The group will meet at Thirsk Hall at 11am for a tour looking at some of the sculptures in the garden and park behind the house. After the tour, at about 12.30pm, we will go into the Hall for a soup and sandwich lunch in the dining room which dates from c 1770 and...

Visit World of Wedgwood, Stoke Museum, Derby Art Gallery

7 Feb 2025

*** Fully booked *** Leaving York from Memorial Gardens at 8 45am., we will drive by coach to the World of Wedgwood for lunch followed by a tour of their extensive Museum, run by the V & A and featuring York’s own John Flaxman. There will then be time to explore...

Visit Burton Agnes Hall

7 Feb 2025

Burton Agnes, built between 1598 and 1610, probably to the designs of Robert Smythson, has been described as the perfect Elizabethan house. Not only is it interesting architecturally but it contains a striking collection of French Impressionist paintings and...