Richard Green is an art curator and art critic.

Biography

Green was Keeper of fine art at the

Laing Art Gallery The Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, is located on New Bridge Street West. The gallery was designed in the Baroque style with Art Nouveau elements by architects Cackett & Burns Dick and is now a Grade II listed building. It ...

from 1971 to 1977. One of his early acquisitions for Newcastle was ''Laus veneris'' by

Edward Burne-Jones Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet, (; 28 August, 183317 June, 1898) was a British painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood which included Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Millais, Ford Madox Brown and Holman Hun ...

. In 1977 he became the curator of

York Art Gallery York Art Gallery is a public art gallery in York, England, with a collection of paintings from 14th-century to contemporary, prints, watercolours, drawings, and ceramics. It closed for major redevelopment in 2013, reopening in summer of 2015. T ...

, a post he held until 2003 when he left to become an independent art historian. 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. Green is an honorary visiting fellow in the Department of Art History at the

University of York , mottoeng = On the threshold of wisdom , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £8.0 million , budget = £403.6 million , chancellor = Heather Melville , vice_chancellor = Charlie Jeffery , students ...

. He was elected as a Fellow of the

Society of Antiquaries of London A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societ ...

in 2014.

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 ''The Burlington Magazine'' is a monthly publication that covers the fine and decorative arts of all periods. Established in 1903, it is the longest running art journal in the English language. It has been published by a charitable organisation sin ...

'' 144.

References

British art curators Living people Employees of York Art Gallery Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Year of birth missing (living people) British art historians {{England-academic-bio-stub