has had a makeover which members on the tours of the House and Garden saw last October. Below are pictures of the garden as it was, and as it looks now. The tours are being repeated on 9 and 10 May 2012 - see Full List of Events
The Friends of Bristol Art Gallery contributed funding towards the Urns and Trellis.
(This item updated 25 January 2012)
| March 15, 2012 |
This is the final lecture in the 2011-12 series — and what a way to bow out!
Linked to the major new touring exhibition visiting Bristol Museum and Art Gallery from 31 March, Martin Clayton will reveal to us ‘Leonardo da Vinci through his drawings’. Martin has been Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings for the Royal Library at Windsor Castle for 20 years. He has curated many exhibitions of drawings from the Royal Collection including those on Raphael, Poussin, Caneletto and many on Leonardo da Vinci.
Note: this lecture starts at 7.00pm and will be a ticketed event (but still free to members). There was a booking form with the February Bulletin, please complete and return it as soon as possible. Also, we will be checking membership cards on this occasion, so remember to bring yours with you ( it’s the green card, which also includes the 2011-12 Lecture Programme).
(Updated 18 February 2012)
| February 28, 2012 |
The Three dancers
Linda is an Art Historian, and a well qualified lecturer who is popular with Bristol Friends. Her subject tonight is ‘Picasso and Britain’ a major show being held at Tate Britain from 15 February – 15 July 2012. This will be the first exhibition to explore Picasso’s lifelong connections with this country, and will examine his evolving critical reputation here and British artists’ responses to his work. Linda is the sort of lecturer who will bring the subject of this exhibition to life.
(Pablo Picasso The Three Dancers 1925 Tate © Succession Picasso/DACS 2011)
( This item added 6 August 2011)
| January 17, 2012 |
Opening the 2012 lecture series, Dr Sam Smiles will tell us about ‘Into the Light: French & British Painting from Impressionism to the 1920′s’. This is also the title of the concurrent exhibition at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) in Exeter, which celebrates its re-opening after refurbishment in December 2011. A day excursion to this exhibition will take place on Tuesday 31 January ie two weeks after the lecture. Dr Sam Smiles is Emeritus Professor of Art History and a Tate Research Fellow. He also curated the Into the Light exhibition at RAMM.
(This item added on 6 August 2011)
| August 9, 2011 |
Broughton Castle
Lord Saye and Sele, his cousin, lives with his family in this moated medieval Manor House, built about 1300 and greatly enlarged between 1550 and 1600.
The excursion will start from Pembroke Rd at 9.00am and returns around 7.30pm
This excursion is FULL
(Updated 12 July 2011)
