Gwenyth Yarker

BEM FSA
Academic work
Discipline
  • Fine Art
Institutions
  • Dorset County Museum

Gwenyth Anne Yarker BEM FSA FRHistS is a British curator.[1]

Career

Yarker began her curatorial career following undergraduate study at the Open University and postgraduate research at the Courtauld Institute of Art.[2]

Yarker became honorary curator of Fine Art at the Dorset County Museum in the 1990s. In 2011 she curated a major exhibition of British portraits titled "Georgian Faces: Portrait of a County".[3] She is also a trustee of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, who are closely associated with the museum.[1]

Yarker is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[4] She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 11 November 2005.[5]

In the 2013 New Year Honours list she was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to museums. This was presented to her in May 2013 by Valerie Pitt-Rivers, the Lord Lieutenant of Dorset.[1]

Select publications

  • Down, P., Stich, R. and Yarker, G. 2014. Dorset Woman at War : Mabel Stobart and the retreat from Serbia 1915. Dorchester, Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society.
  • Yarker, G. 2013. Inquisitive eyes: slade painters in Edwardian Wessex. Bristol, Sansom & Co.
  • Yarker, G. 2010. Georgian faces : portrait of a county. Dorchester, Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society.
  • Yarker, G. 2008. "Three Rackett family portraits by George Romney", Transactions of the Romney Society. 4-15.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Museum Volunteer awarded British Empire Medal". Dorset County Museum. 21 May 2013. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  2. ↑ "Arts head: Gwen Yarker, honorary curator, Dorset County Museum". The Guardian. 8 January 2013.
  3. ↑ "Georgian Faces: Portrait of a County, Dorset County Museum 2011". British Portraits. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  4. ↑ "Fellows – X-Z" (PDF). Royal Historical Society. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  5. ↑ "Gwenyth Yarker". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
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