Richard Green (curator)

Richard Green FSA FRSA is an art curator and art critic. ^[1]

Biography

Green was Keeper of fine art at the Laing Art Gallery from 1971 to 1977. ^[1] One of his early acquisitions for Newcastle was Laus veneris by Edward Burne-Jones. In 1977 he became the curator of York Art Gallery, a post he held until 2003 when he left to become an independent art historian. ^[2] As curator at York Art Gallery, Green was present during the armed robbery of January 1999 in which staff were tied up and threatened, and over £700,000 of paintings were stolen. ^[2]

Green is an honorary visiting fellow in the Department of Art History at the University of York. ^[1] He was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2014. ^[3]

Select publications

• 1990 (with Murray H and Riddick S). York through the Eyes of the Artist. York City Art Gallery.
• 2011. 'Etty and the Masters' in S. Burnage, M. Hallett and L. Turner, eds, William Etty: Art and Controversy. London.
• 2012. 'Paul Sandby's young Pupil identified', Burlington Magazine 144.

References

1. "Richard Green, Honorary Visiting Fellow". University of York. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
2. "Art gallery curator off to pastures new". York Press. 20 January 2003. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
3. "Mr Richard Green". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 27 June 2022.