The Permanent Collection on display in the John Madejski Fine Rooms

From the Shadows: The Prints of Sydney Lee RA

27 February to 26 May 2013
Tennant Gallery, John Madejski Fine Rooms

Admission
Admission with a valid Royal Academy Exhibition ticket or £3 General Admission ticket. Friends visit free.

Opening times
Tuesday–Friday, 1-4.30pm
Saturday-Sunday, 10am-6pm




Curator's Talk
Tuesday 5 March 2013
Tuesday 7 May 2013

Meet at 3.30 pm in the Tennant Gallery. Free with an exhibition ticket.

Free Gallery Tours



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.
Current displays include paintings from the 1950s to 1980s by Carel Weight, Frederick Gore, Ruskin Spear and Richard Eurich. 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) alongside works by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, G.F. Watts and Briton Riviere. >More ...

Royal Academy Winter Exhibition Catalogues now online

The Royal Academy of Arts Winter loan Exhibition catalogues from their inception in 1870 to 1939 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. After World War 1 the Winter Exhibitions programme became far more ambitious and included major surveys of Italian, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, French, Persian and British art. Also for the first time, illustrated catalogues were produced.

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.

RA Collections in Focus

Click here to download an introductory guide (4.5 MB) to the Royal Academy's collection of paintings, sculptures and works on paper. A printed copy of this guide is given out free to teachers and full-time students with ID at the RA Learning Desk and is available to other visitors for purchase from the RA Shop.

Artist of the Month - May 2013

The architect H. T. Cadbury-Brown tained at the Architectural Association in 1930-35 where he was first introduced by another student to the work of the pioneering modernist architect, Le Corbusier, and was immediately, in his own words, 'hooked'. >More....

Object of the Month - May 2013

The Times obituary in 1929 remembered La Thangue for his 'vigorous representations of Mediterranean subjects' painted 'generally in dappled light and a strongly personal note in the colour, bronze and violet predominating'.>More....

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.

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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>