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LIST OF EXHIBITIONS - WESTERN 1891

Exhibition of paintings in the University Galleries.

1895 Exhibition of Rembrandt etchings in the University Galleries. of .

1897 Maiolica and enamelled earthenware of Italy.

1928 Silver plate belonging to Oxford Colleges.

1929 Sidney William Carline.

1939 Younger British Painters.

1940 Contemporary British Drawings (May-August).

1941 Modern British Paintings. Euston Road Group (May-July). Contemporary Art Society (Oct-Dec).

1942 Exhibition by Slade and Ruskin Schools. (Also Nov. 1943 & Nov. 1944) Selection from Gallery Wartime exhibitors.

1943 Civil Defence Artists (Sept). British Landscapes from George II - Victoria (Oct 9-31) Contemporary paintings and drawings (6-27 March) Paul Nash (April 12-28) Poster Design in Wartime Britain (May 8-29) Oxford Art Society 50th Exhibition. (June 4 - July 3) Work by Living Scottish Artists (July 24 - Aug 14)

1944 Children’s paintings (Feb 22 - March 21) Contemporary Sculpture (30 March - 30 April) British narrative paintings from Tate Gallery - Regency - 20th century (May 15 - June 5) Paintings by Firemen Artists (June 15-30) Dous of the Nations (7 July - 9 Sept) Miniature Theatre Exhibition (Sept 15) Old Decorative Maps and Charts (5 Dec) The Glasgow School (Dec)

1950 All held in the newly commissioned Exhibition Gallery on the ground floor of the wing: Works by Members of the Oxford Art Society (May) Works by Pupils of the Ruskin School (June) Bygones by the Oxford Preservation Trust and Oxfordshire Rural Community Council (also in a portion of the Weldon Lecture Room) (July) Drawings in the M.V. Braikevitch Bequest (Aug-Sept) Works by Robin Rae and Peter Davis: Exhibition arranged by the O.U. Art Club (Oct) Visitors and Staff Paintings from Ruskin School (17-18 Nov)

1951 Seventeenth Century Plate Harold Cohen (19 Nov - 1 Dec)

1954 Pissarro (May 2-22)

1955 Curt Hermann (1854-1929) Exhibition of Watercolours by H.M. Cashell (July)

1956 Deuctional Pèrchres 1460-1950 (March)

1958 Memorial exhibition of pictures and drawings by Leonard Pasternak 1862-1945

1962 Francis Falconer Madan

1962-1968 Exhibition of drawings by Department of Western Art

1963 The Artist and the book in France (11-25 May) Pissarro 1863-1944 (July)

1964 Egerton Bushe Coghill 1853-1921: an Irish Impressionist (May) Percy Horton Retrospective (June-July)

1965 Centenary Exhibition of paintings, drawings and lithographs by 1865- 1925 (April-May) Georges van Houten 1888-1964 (Oct-Nov)

1966 Malcolm Milne Retrospective (June-July) British Bird Painting (24-31 July) Exhibition of etchings by Friedrich Landseer Griggs and some of his contemporaries (1-23 Oct)

1967 Drawings by English Sculptors 1680-1810 (Nov-Dec)

1968 Graphic Art Illustrating Slade Lectures Claude Lovat Fraser (2-23 May)

1969 Brake Baldwin 1885-1915 (4-25 Jan) Orovida (Feb)

1969-70 Ruskin School Annual Student Exhibition

1970 Drawings of Italy by James Gibbs 1801-70 (October)

1971 Sidney Nolan (April-May) Medieval Middle Eastern pottery

1972 Anna Ticho (April-May) Half century of Heberden Coin Room

1973 Centenary exhibition of Eleanor Fortesque-Brickdale (1 Dec- 7 Jan) French and English Prints 1840-1940 (Dec)

1974 The World of (Jan-Feb) Ursula Tyrwhitt 1872-1966 (Oct-Nov)

1975 Bevan gift of paintings and drawings by the Camden Town Group (April) Dutch pictures in Oxford (May-July) The Prints of Martin Hardie Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinsky centenary exhibition (Oct-Dec)

1975-1976 Maurice Sendak (Dec-Feb) 1976 Centenary exhibition of etchings and drawings by F.L. Griggs (March-May) Engraved glass by Lawrence Whistler (June-August) Drawings by Tolkien (Dec 76 - Feb 77)

1977 Selection of drawings by Nazarenes and their Associates (Jan 5 - March 27) Geoffrey Rhoades Retrospective (March-May) Arthur Segal: a collection of woodcuts (10 May - 3 July) Four Contemporary Scottish Painters (15 Sept - 30 Oct) Wenceslaus Hollar in : tercentenary (Oct-Nov)

1978 John Newberry (Jan) Mary Woodall (1 – 30 April) Finger Rings (5 Aug - 17 Sept)

1979 Six Centuries of an Oxford College (May) William and Rosamund Fletcher (May) Glass exhibition (Sept-Oct) Ervin Bossányi (Sept-Oct) Sculpture and Construction (3 Nov - 17 Dec)

1980 Robert Austin 1895-1978 (16 Feb - 16 March) Marcelle Quinton (March-April) Archival exhibition of Pissarro (Nov-Jan)

1981 Turner and the Bible (Jan-March) Robin Tanner (17 Jan- 22 Feb) The most beautiful statues (16 March - 10 May) Eastern Ceramics (July-Sept) on his 80th birthday (October) Percyval Tudor-Hart 1873-1954 (Nov) George Mackley (14 Nov ‘81 - 3 Jan ‘82)

1982 British pictorial bookplates to David Hockney (Feb-March) Sculptures of our time (April 14 - 23 May) Recent Australian Prints (Oct-Nov) Innovations in contemporary print-making (23 Oct - 21 Nov)

1983 McAlpine Gallery (1483-1520) (11 Jan - 6 March) Dürer to Cézanne (9 March - 10 April) 1617-1692: the Founder of the Ashmolean and His World: a Tercentenary Exhibition (27 April to 31 July) Oxford University and College Portraits since 1945 (10 Aug - 23 Oct) Purchases and gifts of the Friends of the Ashmolean 1969-1983 (18 Oct - 31 Dec)

Eldon Gallery A tribute to James Byam Shaw for his 80th Birthday (11 Jan - 27 Feb) Etchings by Jacques Callot (1592/3-1635) and Stefano Della Bella (1610-64) (1 March - 24 April) 20th century Portrait Drawings (3 Aug - 4 Sept) British Wood Engraving since 1920: recent accessions (10 Sept - 16 Oct) Print and drawings presented by Francis Douce and Chambers Hall (19 Oct - 27 Nov) Three 20th century Keepers: C.F. Bell, K.M. Clark and K.T. Parker; Drawings (30 Nov - 15 Jan ‘84)

1984 Eldon Gallery

Old Master Drawings: Italian 16th century (17 Jan - 11 March) Old Master Drawings: Northern Schools 17th century (13 March - 6 May) Old Master Drawings: Italian 17th century (8 May - 16 Sept) Top of the Pops (3 Jul - 16 Sept)

McAlpine Gallery Unbuilt Oxford (11 Jan - 6 Mar) Shells (15 March - 6 May) Tess Jaray (17 May - 15 July) Watteau (25 July - 9 Sept) Image as Catalyst: The Younger Generation of British figurative painters (30 Oct - 9 Dec)

1985 McAlpine Gallery Acquisition and Conservation under the Keepership of Kenneth Garlick 1968-1984 (13 Dec 1984 - 24 Feb 1985) Modern British Drawings from the Whitworth Art Gallery (5 March - 26 April) Laurence Whistler (1 May - 30 June) David Wilkie (10 July - 25 August) Richard Shirley Smith (4 Sept - 3 Nov) Arundel (14 Nov ‘85 - 12 Jan ‘86)

Eldon Gallery (6 Nov - 6 Jan 1985) Chiaroscuro and colour woodcuts (8 Jan - 10 Feb) Studies for Italian Renaissance Altarpieces (12 Feb - 31 March) Watercolours by J.M.W. Turner (2 April - 26 May) 18th century Italian drawings (28 Mary - 23 June) Masterpieces from the Dept of Prints and Drawings (25 June - 25 August) Engravings by Richard Shirley Smith (4 Sept - 3 Nov) Raphael and Dürer (5 Nov - 5 Jan ‘86)

1986 McAlpine Gallery Jonathan Kingdom (28 Jan - 2 March) Impressionist drawings (11 March - 20 April) Guercino drawings (29 April - 22 June) Portrait drawings by Hensel (1 July - 24 Aug) Byam Shaw (2 Sept - 26 Oct) Elizabeth Williams (2 Nov- early 1987)

Eldon Gallery English Watercolours (28 Jan - 2 March) Impressionist drawings (11 March - 20 April) Guercino drawings (29 April - 22 June) Old Master drawings (24 June - 2 Sept) John Farleigh (10 Sept - 19 Oct) Bensusan Butt and (21 Oct - Dec)

1987 McAlpine Gallery The Christopher Hewett Collection (20 Jan - 1 March) Insects and Art (10 March - 17 April) Ancient and Modern: McAlpine Collection (5 May - 2 Aug) German Drawings of the 19th century (10 Sept - 18 Oct) David Levine (27 Oct - 3 Jan 1988)

Eldon Gallery Livres d’Artiste: Collection of W.J. Strachen (20 Jan - 1 March) Distortion and Refinement: 16th century drawings and prints (3 March - 31 May) Masterpieces of European Drawing (2 June - 16 Aug) Claughton Pellew (1890-1966) (16 Sept - 22 Nov) Molly Freeman: Artist and Collector (25 Nov - 3 Jan)

1988/1989 McAlpine Gallery Paul Eachus and John Goto (12 Jan - 28 Feb) Old Master Drawings (Holkham Hall) (1 March - 24 April) Lucien Freud (3 May - 12 June) Sculpture by Alfred and Winifred Turner (21 June - 2 Oct) S.W. Hayter (11 Oct - 27 Nov) A Century of Silver (6 Dec - 29 Jan ‘89) : Paintings and Prints (14 Feb - 16 April) The France of the Pissarros (25 April - 11 June) Pre-Raphaelites (16 June - 10 Sept)

Eldon Gallery Lucien Freud (3 May - 12 June) 17th century French Drawings (21 June - 2 Oct) Renaissance of Gravure: S.W. Hayter (11 Oct - 27 Nov) Dürer: Prints and Drawings (29 Nov - 12 Feb ‘89) Anthony Gross (14 Feb - 16 April) Watercolours by J.M.W. Turner (18 April - 4 June) Drawings by John Ruskin (6 June - 10 Sept) 1990 McAlpine Gallery Showcase: a celebration of Oxfordshire and their collections (2 Dec - 14 Jan 1990) Twentieth Century Russian Watercolours and Drawings (12 June - 5 Aug) Drama in Colour: The Dramatic Paintings of Hugh Bulley (23 Oct - 25 Nov 1990) Italy by Moonlight: The night in Italian painting 1550-1850 (25 Oct - 16 Dec 1990)

Eldon Gallery Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings (Late Nov - 14 Jan 1990) Drawings by Leonid Pasternak (1890-1945) (12 June - 9 Aug) John Buckland Wright 1897-1954 (23 Oct - 2 Dec) A Loan exhibition of drawings by Nicholas Poussin from British Collections (4 Dec 1990 - 17 Feb 1991)

1991 McAlpine Gallery The Camden Town Group (7 May 1991 - 7 Sept 1991) The Flora of Louisiana: Watercolour drawings by Margaret Stones (12 Sept - 27 Oct 1991) Paintings for Pater by Karen Forsyth (29 Oct 1991 - 9 Feb 1992)

Eldon Gallery Rossetti’s Portraits of (5 March - 28 April 1991) (7 May 1991 - 8 Sept 1991) Fifteenth-century German Line-Engravings and Dotted Prints (12 Sept - 31 Oct 1991) Edgar Holloway (5 Nov 1991 - 9 Feb 1992)

1992 McAlpine Gallery The Art of Laughter (18 Feb - 24 May 1992) John Piper: The Robert and Rena Lewin Gift to the (2 June - 9 August 1992) Russian panoramas from the Talbot Collection (Early Aug - Early Oct) Indian Paintings from the Howard Hodgkin Collection (20 Oct 1992 - 7 Feb 1993)

Eldon Gallery Grotesques and Grimaces (18 Feb - 24 May 1992) From Gericault to Bonnard: Prints from the Maxwell Webb Collection (2 June - 9 Aug 1992) Clare Leighton (20 Oct 1992 - 31 Jan 1993)

1993 McAlpine Gallery Panoramic Views of St. Petersburg from 1716-1835 (16 Feb - 9 May 1993) Shadow of the Forest: Prints of the Barbizon School (25 May - 18 July 1993) Gravure and Grace: The engravings of Roger Vieillard (26 Oct 1993 - 16 Jan 1994)

Eldon Gallery Eighteen Old Master Drawings from the Collection at Holkham Hall, Norfolk (5-31 Jan 1993) The Art of Orovida: Prints, drawings and paintings from the Pissarro Collection (2 Feb - 28 March 1993) Rembrandt Etchings and Drypoints (6 April - 18 July 1983) Robin Tanner (1904-1988) Teacher and Etcher, Heather Tanner (1903-1993) Author (14 July 1993 - ?) Monica Poole Wood Engraver (26 Oct 1993 - 31 Jan 1994)

1994 Gordon Childe Room 20th-century British Studio Pottery: The collection of an Oxford graduate (14 April - 14 Aug 1994) The Vitruvian Path: Early Printed Books from the Library of the Department of the History of Art (1 Sept - 31 Dec 1994)

McAlpine Gallery Roger Wagner Paintings 1982 -1994 (25 Jan - 27 March 1994) Valerie Thornton R.E. 1931-1991 (25 Oct 1994 - 19 Feb 1995)

Eldon Gallery The Director’s Choice: Netherlandish drawings from the 15th to the 17th century (25 Jan - 27 March 1994) Drawings by Contemporaries of Voltaire: Eighteenth-century French drawings from the Print Room of the Ashmolean (30 Aug - 27 Nov 1994) Twentieth-century Drawings: Recent acquisitions (29 Nov 1994 - 19 Feb 1995) Pre-Raphaelite drawings from the Ashmolean Collections (n.d.)

1995 McAlpine Gallery Pictures from the Reserve Collection (28 Feb - 14 May 1995) Wood Engraving here and now (23 May - 6 Aug 1995) Dutch and Flemish Drawings from Windsor Castle (15 Aug - 15 Oct 1995) French Drawings from the Prat Collection (24 Oct - 17 Dec 1995)

Eldon Gallery Drawings by (21 Feb - 14 May 1995) Sir Karl Parker (1895-1992) A Centenary Celebration (16 May - 24 Sept 1995) Gertrude Hermes and Blair Hughes-Stanton (10 Oct 1995 - 11 Feb 1996)

1996 McAlpine Gallery Helen Saunders 1885-1963 (9 Jan - 3 March 1996) Drawings for the Ashmolean building by CR Cockerell (12 March - 12 May 1996) Ruskin and Oxford (21 May - 15 Sept 1996) Chinese Paintings from the Reyes Collection (24 Sept - 1 Dec 1996) Drawings by the Carracci from British collections (10 Dec 1996 - 31 March 1997)

Eldon Ornament drawings of the 16th century (13 Feb - 12 May 1996) Ruskin and Oxford (21 May - 15 Sept 1996) Techniques of Drawing (17 Sept - 1 Dec 1996) Drawings by the Carracci from British Collections (10 Dec 1996 - 31 March 1997) 1997 McAlpine Gallery Pastels (8 April - 11 May 1997) Acquisitions 1985-997 (20 May - 13 July 1997)

1998 McAlpine Gallery Malchair and the Oxford School (22 Sept - 13 Dec 1998) The Painterly Brush: Oil Sketches from the Ashmolean Museum (22 Dec 1998 - 21 March 1999)

Eldon Anne Desmet: Towers and Transformations: a retrospective exhibition (15 Sept - 13 Dec 1998) Piet de Jong’s Cartoons (19 Dec 1998 - 3 Jan 1999)

1999 McAlpine From Cozens to Palmer: Exhibition Watercolours from the Ashmolean Museum (30 March - 13 June 1999) Paintings by Leonid Pasternak (22 June - 22 Aug 1999) No Day Without a Line: The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers 1880-1999 (31 Aug - 31 Oct 1999) Dutch Genre Paintings from the Mauritshuis (9 Nov 1999 - 9 Jan 2000)

Eldon Nineteenth-century French Drawings from the Ashmolean Museum (5 Jan - 28 Feb 1999) Recent Acquisitions of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British Drawings and Watercolours (2 March - 30 May 1999) The Prophetic Vision (8 June - 15 Aug 1999) Techniques of (31 Aug - 31 Oct 1999) F.L. Griggs (1876-1938): The Architecture of Dreams (2 Nov 1999 - 9 Jan 2000)

2000 McAlpine Gallery Severini (18 Jan - 5 March 2000) Francis Ernest Jackson (1872-1945) and his School (21 March - 4 June 2000) Turner’s Oxford (20 June - 1 Sept 2000) and (19 Sept - 5 Nov 2000) Ruskin Portraits (21 Nov 2000 - 21 Jan 2001) About Time (6 Feb - 1 April 2001) Jules Flandrin: The Other Fin de Siècle (17 April - 24 June)

Eldon Gallery Severini (18 Jan - 5 March 2000) Eighteenth-century Venetian Drawings (14 March - 4 June 2000) British Townscapes (20 June - 10 Sept 2000) (19 Sept - 19 Nov 2000) Ruskin and the Geographical Imagination (21 Nov 2000 - 21 Jan 2001) Sculptors’ Drawings (6 Feb - 20 May 2001)