I am a regular visitor to the major London Galleries and have also visited exhibitions relevant to this course in Cambridge, Suffolk, Netherlands and USA. Below is a list of relevant exhibitions that I refer to for inspiration in this course, with a particular focus on exhibitions visited while studying the course: October 2016 – September 2018. Galleries are listed in alphabetical order with the most recent exhibitions visited first.
Alde Valley Spring Festival
I, Claudius Spring Exhibition (April 21 to May 20 2018)
Aldeburgh Peter Peers Gallery
Maggi Hambling: Edge (June-July 2017) see Marlborough Arts website for catalogue
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
From Bosch to Bruegel – Uncovering Everyday Life (November 2015 – January 2016)
Rembrandt Etchings permanent collection
Dutch landscape permanent collection
British Museum
Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave (25 May – 13 August 2017)
Picasso post-war prints: lithographs and aquatints (27 January – 3 March 2017)
Japanese woodblock printing: a craft of precision (25 May – 16 July 2017)
Places of the mind: British watercolour landscapes 1850–1950 (23 February – 28 August 2017)
Maggi Hambling – Touch: works on paper (8 September 2016 –29 January 2017)
Defining beauty the body in ancient Greek art (26 March – 5 July 2015)
Drawing in silver and gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns (10 September – 6 December 2015)
Recent acquisitions two sets of Picasso linocuts (10 January – 6 May 2014)
Germany divided: Baselitz and his generation From the Duerckheim Collection (6 February – 31 August 2014)
Courtauld Gallery, London
Soutine’s Portraits: Waiters, Cooks and Bellhops (October 19 2017 – January 21 2018)
Rodin and Dance: The Essence of Movement (20 October 2016 – 22 January 2017)
Egon Schiele: The Radical Nude (23 October 2014 to 18 January 2015)
The Spanish Line: Drawings from Ribera to Picasso (13 October 2011 to 15 January 2012)
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Degas’ Drinker: Portraits by Marcellin Desboutin (19th September 2017 – 25th February 2018) Drypoint portraits
Degas, Desboutin and Rembrandt: parallels in prints (27 October 2017 – 25 February 2018)
Degas: A Passion for Perfection (3 October 2017 – 14 January 2018) prints in various media
Degas: Caricature and Modernity ( 12 September 2017 – 21 January 2018) lithographs and drypoints
Fatal Consequences:The Chapman Brothers and Goya’s Disasters of War (14 October 2014 – 8 February 2015) etchings
Maggi Hambling: The Wave (27 April – 8 August 2010) monoprints and ethcings
National Gallery
The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Monet & Architecture (9 April 2018 to 29 July 2018)
Monochrome: Painting in Black and White (1 November 2017 – 18 February 2018) Rembrandt, Picasso, and Gerhard Richter
Drawn in Colour: Degas from the Burrell (20 September 2017 – 7 May 2018)
Beyond Caravaggio (12 October 2016 – 15 January 2017)
Rembrandt: The Late Works: (15 October 2014 to 18 January 2015)
National Portrait Gallery
The Encounter: Drawings from Leonardo to Rembrandt (13 July – 22 October 2017)
Cézanne Portraits (October 26 2017 – February 11 2018)
Royal Academy
Abstract Expressionism (24 September 2016 — 2 January 2017)
James Ensor Intrigue (29 October 2016 — 29 January 2017)
Anselme Kiefer (27 September — 14 December 2014)
Etching: The Infernal Method (15 September 2017 — 19 February 2018)
Gary Hume RA: Prints Pictures (16 February — 24 April 2017)
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture (21 January — 9 April 2012)
Snape Maltings, Suffolk
Regular sales and exhibitions of prints and landscapes from Suffolk.
Tate Britain
All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life (28 Feb – 27 Aug 2018)
The EY Exhibition Impressionists in London (2 November 2017 – 29 April 2018)
David Hockney 9 February– 29 May 2017
Frank Auerbach (9 Oct 2015 – 13 Mar 2016)
Tate Modern
Rothko (26 September 2008 – 1 February 2009) and permanent exhibition
Gerhard Richter: Panorama (6 October 2011 – 8 January 2012) and permanent exhibition