Gwenyth Yarker

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Gwenyth Yarker

Academic work
Discipline
  • Fine Art
Institutions
  • Dorset County Museum

Gwenyth Anne Yarker BEM FSA FRHistS is a British art historian and curator. [1]

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Career

Yarker began her curatorial career following undergraduate study at the Open University and postgraduate research at the Courtauld Institute of Art. [2]

Yarker became honorary curator of Fine Art at the Dorset County Museum in the 1990s. She was also curator of art at the National Maritime Museum and collections manager of the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum.[ citation needed ] In 2011 she curated a major exhibition of British portraits, "Georgian Faces: Portrait of a County". [3] She is also a trustee of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, which is associated with the museum. [1]

Yarker is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. [4] She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 11 November 2005. [5]

In the 2013 New Year Honours list she was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to museums. This was presented to her in May 2013 by Valerie Pitt-Rivers, the Lord Lieutenant of Dorset. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Museum Volunteer awarded British Empire Medal". Dorset County Museum. 21 May 2013. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  2. "Arts head: Gwen Yarker, honorary curator, Dorset County Museum". The Guardian. 8 January 2013.
  3. "Georgian Faces: Portrait of a County, Dorset County Museum 2011". British Portraits. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  4. "Fellows – X-Z" (PDF). Royal Historical Society. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  5. "Gwenyth Yarker". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 14 May 2020.