Tag: Thomas Gainsborough

  • Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture

    Despite once saying he was sick of portraits, he was one of the most sought-after portraitists of his day and looking at the irresistible paintings in this delightful show it is easy to see why

  • Radical Landscapes

    A green and pleasant land or a place of aristocratic privilege for some and backbreaking labour and protest for others? An intriguing exhibition at William Morris’ Walthamstow residence explores how landscape art and radical politics have intersected

  • Rethinking pink

    A corporate and trademarked invention, Barbie Pink is still marketed as the colour of perpetual happiness. Tracing the multiple iterations of pink through art history, however, reveals more complex meanings

  • Portraits of Dogs: From Gainsborough to Hockney

    While some might be quick to dismiss #WallaceWoofs as kitsch and gimmicky, it is a well-founded and well-grounded exhibition – and gets the lick of approval from my four-legged companion

  • Fruits of the Spirit: Art from the Heart

    A virtual exhibition that leaves one visitor feeling more like a student on completing an essay than a gallery-goer having had a visceral encounter with 18 fabulous works of art

  • Gainsborough’s Blue Boy

    An icon of British art returns to London exactly a century after its much-mourned departure for the US with the words “Au revoir” hand-written on its back by the then director of the National Gallery

  • Frick Madison provides temporary home for the Frick Collection

    The superstars have been realigned as the old Whitney Breuer hosts the Frick Collection with surprising success

  • Gainsborough’s Family Album

    The National Portrait Gallery introduces us to Thomas Gainsborough’s colourful family in a beautifully realised exhibition

  • Making Colour

    Colour is one of the joys of life: the deep blue of a summer sky, the clouded yellow of a butterfly’s wing. Vital to our perception of art, tones lift hearts and minds in the ultramarine mantle of a Renaissance…

  • Alex Katz: 70s/80s/90s

    Timothy Taylor Gallery, London 19 March – 17 April 2014