The Permanent Collection on display in the John Madejski Fine RoomsDriven to Draw: Twentieth-century Drawings and Sketchbooks from the Royal Academy’s Collection3 November 2011—12 February 2012 Tennant Gallery, John Madejski Fine Rooms Admission Complimentary entry with a valid Royal Academy exhibition ticket. £3 without. RA Friends go free. Opening times Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 6pm (Closed Monday)  Curator’s Talks Tuesday 6 December 2011 and Tuesday 7 February 2012 An introduction to the exhibition by the curator. 3.30pm in the Tennant Gallery. Events are free with an exhibition ticket. Find out more... Free Gallery Tours ![John Constable RA, Cloud Study, Hampstead, Tree at Right, 1821 [detail]](http://www.racollection.org.uk/asset_arena/image/ad/constable_hampstead.jpg) See highlights from the Royal Academy's collection, find out more about the history of the institution and explore its home, Burlington House, on a free guided tour of the John Madejski Fine Rooms. New displays for 2011 include Charles West Cope’s Council of the Royal Academy Selecting Pictures for the Exhibition, 1875. There is also a chance to see W.P. Frith’s Private View at the Royal Academy 1881 (on loan from the Pope Family Trust). Contemporary work by Frank Bowling, Terry Frost, Victor Pasmore and Gillian Ayres are also on display. >More ... Constable's paintings![John Constable RA, The Leaping Horse [detail], oil on canvas, 1825. © Royal Academy of Arts, London.](http://www.racollection.org.uk/asset_arena/image/le/bgconstable.jpg) In the section on Constable's Paintings you can explore paintings by John Constable in the Royal Academy Collection. You can also watch videos of MaryAnne Stevens and Michael Rosenthal discussing Constable's work in relation to his observations of different weather conditions on the landscape, the oil sketches he made around Hampstead and his great masterpiece, The Leaping Horse. RA Collection Prints Order bespoke art prints, canvases and framed reproductions from the Royal Academy Collection. Over the coming months we will be adding many more images from the collection. For reproduction rights, please contact the Picture Library. >More... Royal Academy Winter Exhibition Catalogues now online The Royal Academy of Arts Winter loan Exhibition catalogues from their inception in 1870 to 1913 have been digitised and are now available to search and browse online. For the first 100 years of its existence, the Royal Academy organised just one exhibition each year, the annual, Summer exhibition. It wasn’t until 1870, coinciding with its move to Burlington House, that the RA began organising an annual loan exhibition of Old Masters and works by recently deceased British artists, known from its inception and for many years as the Winter Exhibition. Click here to begin browsing the catalogues. Click here to begin searching the catalogues. The project has been funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. 
Searching the CollectionsThe Royal Academy Collections include paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, historic books, archives, historic photographs and plaster casts. To search any of these categories either use the quick search box above or for more advanced searches visit Search all collections to search across all media, or narrow your search by choosing to search Works of art, Books or Archives. Alternatively you can browse by the Name A-Zor visit Help. Currently, only works of art which have been digitised are available on the website. More images are added each month, and in due course all records will be made available. Works of art are mainly by British artists from the 18th century to the present day. >More... The Library and Archive form one of the most significant resources for the study of British Art from 1760 onwards. >More... Artist of the Month - January 2012 Object of the Month - January 2012 John Frederick Lewis RA: An Album of early drawings by Lewis and his family In this interactive you can explore over 170 drawings from an album of works by J. F. Lewis and his family. You can also listen to curators Briony Llewellyn and Sally Doust discussing how the album was put together; the importance of this artistic family, Lewis's enthusiasm for drawing animals and his later career as an Orientalist painter. More> Benjamin West PRA - History Painter to the King Watch a series of interviews in which Loyd Grossman and Curators from the Collection discuss Benjamin West’s meteoric career, his apocalyptic subjects and a satirical print which reveals how West and other Academicians were duped into buying a fake manuscript which purported to reveal the secret techniques of the Old Masters. More> |