Royal Academy of Arts

The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings

17 March-10 June 2007

Sponsored by Bank of America

The first exhibition to be devoted to Monet’s drawings and pastels will open at the Royal Academy of Arts in March. The exhibition will offer a groundbreaking exploration of the role of draftsmanship in Monet’s long career, demonstrating the relationship between his drawings, pastels and paintings. There will be 80 works drawn together from the USA, Europe and Japan, many from private collectors, which will reveal the close relationship in Monet’s creative process between the works on paper and on canvas.

Summer Exhibition 2007

11 June-9 August 2007

The Royal Academy’s annual Summer Exhibition is the world’s largest open submission contemporary art exhibition, with a tradition of showcasing work by unknown and emerging artists alongside that of more established names. The Summer Exhibition attracts entries from around 9,000 artists, including paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, prints and architectural models.

Insight Investment, one of the UK’s largest investment managers and part of the HBOS group, is the sponsor of Summer Exhibition 2007.

Impressionists by the Sea

7 July 2007-30 September 2007

An exhibition exploring 19th-century depiction of the north French coastline will open at the Royal Academy of Arts next summer. Impressionists by the Sea will consist of some sixty paintings. The exhibition will explore the origins and development of the fashionable contemporary beach scene from the early 1860s to the early 1870s, in the work of Eugène Boudin, Manet and Monet. It will look at beach scenes of the 1880s, in which the Impressionists, notably Monet, turned their backs on the depictions of people and used their new approach to painting to capture the effects of weather and light on the coastline.

Making History: Antiquaries in Britain, 1707-2007

15 September-2 December 2007

Making History: Antiquaries In Britain, 1707 – 2007 will explore the work and achievement of the Fellowship of the Society of Antiquaries of London since its foundation in the early eighteenth century to the present day. This exhibition will showcase for the first time, treasures from Britain’s oldest Learned Society concerned with the study of the past. It will feature works of art, antiquities and manuscripts of unique historical importance, such as the earliest known medieval manuscript illustrations of Stonehenge.

A Passion for British Art, 1700- 1850: Paul Mellon's Legacy

20 October 2007-27 January 2008

The Royal Academy of Arts will be celebrating the centenary of the birth of Paul Mellon, one of the great collectors of British Art,  Paul Mellon (1907-1999) redefined the importance of British art. He founded the Yale Center for British Art, now home to the largest collection of British Art outside Britain. This exhibition will present over 100 works borrowed from the Yale Center for British Art, comprising works on paper, paintings, books and manuscripts, by such artists as Reynolds, Stubbs, Gainsborough, Constable, Turner and Reynolds.