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] 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]

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.


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