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Coach Visit to Gorton Monastery, Manchester and Nostell Priory

8 Feb 2024

Gorton Monastery, known as Manchester’s Taj Mahal, was designed by Augustus Welby Pugin for the Franciscan order, and is a Grade II* listed building. Following the closure of the monastery in 1989, it fell into disrepair until it was saved by a local couple, Paul and...

The Impact of Japanese Art on Western artists after 1867

8 Feb 2024

*** Fully booked *** Seminar by Helena Cox in the Bedingfield Room in the Bar Convent.In the first session Helena will introduce us to Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, which were first shown to the west in the Japanese Pavilion in Paris at the Exposition Universelle in 1867....

Wine-tasting at York Medical Society Rooms

8 Feb 2024

*** Fully booked *** Dr Stuart Calder, who will conduct this evening’s event, is founding member and the wine buyer for the York Medical Society Wine Club. He has been importing wine from France, Italy, and Spain for over forty years for this enthusiastic group of...

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...
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...