A bold retelling of Morisot’s story, Berthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism draws on new research and previously unpublished archival material to trace the roots of her inspiration.
Curator Helen Hillyard explores one of Dulwich Picture Gallery’s most celebrated works by Antoine Watteau, an artist who had a profound influence on Berthe Morisot, herself the subject of a major exhibition at Dulwich this spring.
Čiurlionis, Morisot, Rubens AND landscape greats coming soon, discover 2023 at Dulwich Picture Gallery.
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Wassily Kandinsky has generally been seen as the forefather of abstract art. But it's been argued that M.K. Čiurlionis was pioneering this form of art a few years before.
Was he correct? Watch our latest video below and find out!
We spoke to abstract painter Anthony Daley about his new body of work, currently on display in the Gallery, exploring his career-long fascination with the work of Rubens.
A visit to Anthony Daley’s studio to see the preparations for his current exhibition at Dulwich reveals the deep love this Abstract Expressionist artist has for the works of the Old Masters and Rubens in particular. By Malcolm Cussons for In View magazine.
Commissioned as part of the creative partnership between Dulwich Picture Gallery and NHS South East London Integrated Care Board, Osiris is the vision of sculptor and mixed media artist Rafael Klein. Osiris, the Egyptian God of resurrection, life and vegetation, now accompanies you as you explore Tessa Jowell Health Centre’s garden courtyard and embodies the collaborative nature of the local community. The garden is open to the public and a pleasant walk from the Gallery through Dulwich village.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the influential painters at the heart of the French Impressionist movement: Berthe Morisot (1841-1895). 'Morisot Impressionism and the 18th Century' opens at Dulwich Picture Gallery 31 March - 10 September 2023.
Order your copy of the M.K. Čiurlionis: Between Worlds exhibition catalogue, written by curator Kathleen Soriano.
Stuart Semple brings his Festival of Happiness to Dulwich Picture Gallery on Saturday 30 July. Prolific, provocative, passionate, Stuart Semple is renowned for his witty, thought-provoking and challenging artworks created in media ranging from painting, film and public art to sculpture and installation. The Festival will also be the site of a new immersive work, 'Something Else'.
We invited members of the local community to share their thoughts on artworks in our exhibition.
Artist Tom Hunter's photograph 'A Woman Reading a Possession Order' is from a series of images of a squatter's community in Hackney, East London. In this video, he caught up with the woman in the photo, 25 years later.
Helen Frankenthaler has long been associated with Abstract Expressionism. Cora Chalaby explores how the rich body of woodcuts positions her practice within a different movement - the American Print Renaissance.
While the rest of the world is constructing false truths on April Fool's Day, we thought we'd share some fun facts about the Gallery’s history and collection, some of which are hard to believe are true.
Madame Butterfly is Helen Frankenthaler’s woodcut print masterpiece. Radical Beauty Curator Jane Findlay explores the painstaking process behind this enormous work.
Curatorial Assistant, Phoebe Evans takes a closer look at Venus and Mercury, the largest of two fragments of an early painting by Nicolas Poussin.
In November, Dulwich Picture Gallery welcomed a pair of Canaletto’s finest view paintings. Made during the artist’s visits to England from 1746 to 1755, the two works allow us to step back in time to an impression of eighteenth-century London, where beauty is privileged over gritty urban life.
Dulwich Picture Gallery was deeply saddened to hear of the death of the Gallery’s Patron, Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover, KG. He was Chair of Trustees at the Gallery (1994 - 2000) during a formative period in its history.
Cora Chalaby explores Helen Frankenthaler's Madame Butterfly - an extraordinary woodcut which sits in the final room of our exhibition.
Get your Christmas shopping wrapped up early this year with our guide to the ultimate art-inspired gifts.
Helen Frankenthaler was painter, printmaker, sculptor, ceramicist and one-time set designer. PhD candidate Cora Chalaby explores Frankenthaler’s oeuvre by highlighting a range of her works in different media.
‘The Health Centre’s Quilt’, a 2D artwork by local artist collective Bamidele Awoyemi, Farouk Agoro and Livia Wang, is now on display at Tessa Jowell Health Centre in East Dulwich.
This month Dulwich Picture Gallery welcomes a work by Rob and Nick Carter. The husband-and-wife artistic duo have been collaborating for over twenty years and their work has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, including the Frick collection in New York.
For the first time ever Claude Monet’s 'Water Lilies and Agapanthus' (1914–1917) will travel to the UK for a special display as part of our major new exhibition Helen Frankenthaler: Radical Beauty.
For a long time, the identity of the enigmatic figure standing behind the pendulum of the Dulwich clock has been a mystery. However, recent research has led to an important discovery about who this character could be. The answer may lie in the collection of the Louvre, Paris…
We explore how thinking about light has influenced works in our collection and even the gallery architecture itself.
The first art commission for the Tessa Jowell Health Centre (TJHC) in East Dulwich has been awarded to Bamidele Awoyemi, Farouk Agoro and Livia Wang, a collective of artists from South London.