{"id":432143,"date":"2026-02-18T10:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/432143\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T10:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:54:10","slug":"remfry-painting-of-nithering-day-at-spurn-to-stay-in-yorkshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/432143\/","title":{"rendered":"Remfry painting of &#8216;nithering&#8217; day at Spurn to stay in Yorkshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Remfry said it gave him &#8220;enormous pleasure&#8221; to know that Two Girls On The Shore had joined the gallery&#8217;s collection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His exhibition at the gallery had been &#8220;a real highlight&#8221; and he &#8220;felt incredibly grateful to share that body of work with such an engaged and generous audience&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8221;To now have this work permanently housed within the collection feels deeply meaningful,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The painting had been on loan at the gallery since December 2024. The acquisition was made possible with the support of the council, the Friends of Beverley Art Gallery, and Art Fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalacademy.org.uk\/art-artists\/name\/david-remfry-ra\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Royal Academy of Arts, external<\/a>, Remfry is known for his large-scale watercolours of dancers and his drawings and watercolours of neighbours and friends at the Hotel Chelsea, New York, where he lived from 1995 to 2016. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was appointed an MBE in 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remfry said it gave him &#8220;enormous pleasure&#8221; to know that Two Girls On The Shore had joined the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-432143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}