York Art Gallery

Burton Gallery

This gallery showcases works from our own collections dating from 1500 to the present day. It is dedicated to John Burton, who gave the city more than 100 paintings in 1882.

Works are grouped along themes including wartime, York landscapes, portraits, European Old Masters and paintings of women.

Gallery favourites include Richard Jack's Return to the Front: Victoria Railway Station, LS Lowry's Clifford's Tower, Paul Nash's Winter Sea and Hogarth's Studio in 1739 by Edward Matthew Ward, Carracci's Portrait of Monsignor Agucchi and Bellotto's The Piazza San Martino, Lucca.

• Gordon Baldwin: Objects for a Landscape

  Major exhibition starts February 2012

• Excitations

  An exhibition of ceramics from York Museums Trust's collections chosen by leading ceramicist Gordon Baldwin

• Games People Play

  This small exhibition, curated by members of the community, shows the games people have played over the years.