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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...
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...

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...

Captain Foote by Reynolds: an Indian Perspective

19 May 2023

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

Still-life by Melendez

19 Apr 2023

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

7 Nov 2022

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...
New Acquisition!

New Acquisition!

14 Jun 2022

York Art Gallery has acquired a new artwork by notable British artist Dame Laura Knight DBE RA RWS, thanks to the generosity of the Friends of York Art Gallery. The oil painting ‘Early Morning in a Gypsy Camp’, 1953, is now on public display in the Burton Gallery as...

William Etty

13 Jun 2022

Artwork of the Month June 2022 – William Etty (1787-1849), Male Nude with Arms Up-Stretched In this essay Dorothy Nott explores the controversial nature of William Etty’s nudes, both male and female, and how they may have been seen in his lifetime and how they...

The Slade & Bloomsbury

30 May 2022

Eliza Goodpasture, a student in the Department of History of Art at the University of York, writes about the Slade School of Fine Art in connection with the Bloomsbury exhibition (2022) at York Art Gallery. Click...

The Birdcage by Barbara SM Smith

12 Apr 2022

Artwork of the Month April 2022 Peter Gibbard, formerly Chair of the Friends, writes about a little-known woman artist, an example of whose work is included in the exhibition Beyond Bloomsbury: Life, Love & Legacy held in York Art Gallery in 2022.   The Life...