The Road to Calvary by Marten van Cleve
Professor Jeanne Nuechterlein of the History of Art Department, University of York, discusses a favourite painting from the Gallery’s collection. The identity of the artist has long been debated but through her research Jeanne has found the probable solution. Click...In the Tropics by Patricia Ramsay
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
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...
William Etty talk
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...The Flagellation of Saint Barbara by Hans Siebenbürger
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...Captain Foote by Reynolds: an Indian Perspective
Reading Decoloniality in the Portrait of Captain John Foote by Joshua Reynolds, c. 1765: An Indian Perspective. An occasional essay for Friends of York Art Gallery by Kuhu Kopariha, a curator from Mumbai, currently completing her MA in History of Art. She is the...
Still-life by Melendez
Artwork of the Month April 2023 Still-life with Lemons and Nuts by Luis Egidio Meléndez Click on the button below to access the article by Dorothy Nott, former Chair of the Friends, on this painting, a gem of the Gallery’s collection. The artist, Meléndez, is...Captain Foote by Joshua Reynolds
Artwork of the Month August 2022 Portrait of Captain John Foote, (1761-5) by Joshua Reynolds (1723-92) Summary of the talk given to Friends of York Art Gallery on 10 August 2022 by Moira Fulton, who is currently Events-Co-ordinator for the Friends. Click Here Joshua...