York Art Gallery. York Art Gallery in York, England is a public art gallery with a collection of paintings from 14th-century to contemporary, prints, watercolours, drawings, and ceramics.
It closed for major redevelopment in 2013, reopening in summer of 2015. The building is a Grade II listed building.
and is managed by York Museums Trust. The gallery was created to provide a permanent building as the core space for the second Yorkshire Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition of 1879, the first in 1866 occupied a temporary chalet in the grounds of Bootham Asylum.
The 1866 exhibition, which ran from 24 July to 31 October 1866 was attended by over 400,000 people and yielded a net profit for the organising committee of E1,866. A meeting of this committee in April 1867 committed to applying this surplus in providing some permanent building to be devoted to the encouragement of Art and Industry.
The result was the development of a second exhibition, housed in a newly constructed building designed by a York architect named Edward Taylor; a series of 189 drawings, watercolours and sketches for the proposed gallery were produced by Taylor in the period 1874-1878. The architectural plan for the building changed considerably during this time, from an 'Elizabethan' style to an 'Italian' style-neither were fully realised in the final design. The building first opened on 7 May 1879. The site for the 1879 exhibiti
It closed for major redevelopment in 2013, reopening in summer of 2015. The building is a Grade II listed building.
and is managed by York Museums Trust. The gallery was created to provide a permanent building as the core space for the second Yorkshire Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition of 1879, the first in 1866 occupied a temporary chalet in the grounds of Bootham Asylum.
The 1866 exhibition, which ran from 24 July to 31 October 1866 was attended by over 400,000 people and yielded a net profit for the organising committee of E1,866. A meeting of this committee in April 1867 committed to applying this surplus in providing some permanent building to be devoted to the encouragement of Art and Industry.
The result was the development of a second exhibition, housed in a newly constructed building designed by a York architect named Edward Taylor; a series of 189 drawings, watercolours and sketches for the proposed gallery were produced by Taylor in the period 1874-1878. The architectural plan for the building changed considerably during this time, from an 'Elizabethan' style to an 'Italian' style-neither were fully realised in the final design. The building first opened on 7 May 1879. The site for the 1879 exhibiti
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