Lecture - The Glasgow Boys

BACKGROUND:
Alice has lectured for Oxford University, Department of Continuing Education since 1998. She lectures at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and at the Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock. Her busy freelance career also includes organising themed study days with colleagues, and regular weekly classes in Oxfordshire and Worcestershire. In 2004 Alice joined The Arts Society and has lectured in Great Britain and Europe. Formerly President of Northleach Arts Society, she is also President of Banbury Fine Arts Society. Since its inception in 2003 Alice has led study holidays with Learn Italy Ltd to Italy and other parts of Europe. In 2024 she joined the team at the Argyll Hotel, Isle of Iona, Scotland, and runs History of Art Study weeks, specialising in the work of Scottish artists.

THE GLASGOW BOYS:
In the early 1880s this group represented the beginning of modernism in Scottish painting. Led by James Guthrie and John Lavery, they painted contemporary rural subjects rather than the academic topics preferred by established training academies. The group were inspired by the fresh realism of Dutch seventeenth century and French nineteenth century art, and also by the American J.A.M. Whistler. They were fortunate to have an art dealer who promoted their style to the wealthy industrialists in and around Glasgow at that time. These painters were instrumental in forging a modern art oeuvre in Scotland.

Ticket includes wine reception.

Limited spaces available - please register your attendance - marlboroughdfas@gmail.com.