The Ashmolean Museum Announces Dates for March Exhibits
By: Matt Smith Feb. 18, 2015
Love Bites: Caricatures by James Gillray
26 March-21 June 2015
One of the world's finest collections of James Gillray's (1757-1815) work is owned by New College, Oxford, home to more than two thirds of Gillray's 1100 engravings. On the bicentenary of his death, Love Bites takes a fresh look at Gillray's caricatures, focusing on the theme of love in his pictures of courting, friendships and marriages. The exhibition sets his work in the context of a canon of artists who have treated the subject of love, from Brancusi going to back to Rubens, and aims to reveal a new vitality in the caricatures of James Gillray.
Great British Drawings
26 March-31 August 2015
Following the overwhelming popularity of the Ashmolean's Master Drawings exhibition in 2013, the Museum is celebrating its position as one of the world's leading collections of drawings and works on paper. Great British Drawings features more than one hundred of the Ashmolean's best drawings by British artists, charting the history of drawing and artistic development in Britain. Among the artists represented are: JMW Turner; Rossetti, Millais, Holman Hunt; Henry Moore; Ben Nicholson; Graham Sutherland; Peter de Francia; and more.
PRESS VIEW:
Wednesday 25 March 2015
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