Winchester Art History Group

Established 2008

Winchester Art History Group was founded in 2008 by local art historian, Bernard Courtis. It offers a programme of themed study on art history topics, with talks from art historians, guided visits to museums and galleries and other places of interest. It is a non profit organisation administered by a group of volunteers.

Current Programme

Singh Twins, Mr Singh's India

Thomas Thomas Rowlandson, Me, My Wife & Daughter 1808, Met Museum, NY

Vasily Kandinsky, Rain Landscape, 1911, Met Museum, NY

Camille Pissaro Self-portait c. 1890, NGA, Washington

Rembrandt, Buste van oude man met bontmuts., 1630

William Hogarth, Election 1, 1754

Delacroix, Apollo Slaying Python

Prince of Wales and Maharaj Jung Hunting 1876

John Singer Sargent, Treetops against Sky, 1909-1913, Met Museum, NY

Frederic Edwin Church Niagara, 1857 NGA, Washington

Edward Bawden, Working in His Studio

Edward Hopper Ground Swell, 1939 NGA, Washington

Giovanni Bellini, St Francis in the Desert, c1480, Frick Collection, New York

Giovanni Bellini, Portrait of a Young Man, NGA, Washington DC

Alfred Sisley, First snow at Veneux-Nadon, 1878, NGA, Washington

Vincent van Gogh, Green Wheat Fields, Auvers, 1890 NGA, Washington DC

Rivera Diego, Landscape

Ranjit figurine

Paul Gauguin, Fatata te Miti (By the Sea) 1892, NGA, Washington, png

Mary Cassatt, Margot in Orange Dress, 1902, Met Museum,NY

John Edwin Augustus, The Marchesa Casati

Johannes Vermeer, A Lady Writing, c1665 NGA, Washington

Epstein, Jacob, 1880-1959; Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

George Stubbs, White Poodle in a Punt, 1780, NGA, Washington

George Inness, The Lackawanna Valley, 1856, NGA, Washington

Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi, The Adoration of the Magi, c1440 NGA, Washington

Eugene Boudin, Jetty and Wharf at Trouville, 1863, NGA, Washington

Delacroix, Salon du Roi Palais Bourbon Paris

Alfred Sisley, First snow at Veneux-Nadon, 1878, NGA, Washington

Umberto Boccioni, Testa, luce ambiente, 1912

The autumn 2021 programme launches on 8th September 2021 with the first seminar of the season.

The intention behind this programme’s theme is to examine art that has been produced by artists over time and in different parts of the world to draw attention to problematic issues particular to them in their time and place. These issues include war, occupation or incarceration, politics, poor social conditions or the environment, sexism, racism or colonialism. The techniques range from painting through prints and cartoons to photography, collages, installations and performance art. We investigate some of this art and examine how it was used to protest either overtly or more subtly against the prevailing conditions.

See Current Programme for details of all seminars and visits.

From 27th August to 10th November 2021, the Discovery Centre’s Gallery is hosting a photographic retrospective of the internationally renowned artist, Paul Joyce.
A Life Behind the Lens brings together a selection of portraits, which was first shown over 40 years ago in London, New York and beyond. As well as many famous faces, the exhibition includes a number of photographic landscape works, paintings, collaborations and portfolios from the past five decades.
The exhibition is curated by Colin Ford CBE, former director of the National Museum of Wales. He curated Joyce’s first London exhibition, Elders, at the National Portrait Gallery in 1978.