PRINT ROOM POP-UP EXHIBITION: WOMEN ARTISTS

Thu 21 May 2026, 10:30-11:10am or 11:30am-12:10pm or 2:30-3.10pm 

This event takes place onsite in the Western Art Print Room

Choose from one of three 40-minute sessions

Free event, but booking is essential. Book below

Please note that owing to the historical nature of the building, the Western Art Print Room is only accessible by stairs. 

Access is via Gallery 53 on the Second Floor of the Museum

With Print Room staff

Join us in the Ashmolean Western Art Print Room to explore a unique pop-up exhibition of drawings, watercolours, and prints by women artists.

Including works by Julia Margaret Cameron, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Gwen John, Gertrude Hermes, and Natal’ya Goncharova, as well as new acquisitions by Prunella Clough.

The Ashmolean’s superb collection of works on paper is rarely on display in the galleries.

Impressionist watercolour with a horse and yellow carriage driving through a sunlit forest

A horse and carriage in the Bois de Boulogne, Berthe Morisot, 1883, watercolours on wove paper

Charcoal sketch drawing of a young girl sitting with her hands crossed on her lap

Girl with Hands crossed on her Lap, Gwen John, 1918-1919, charcoal on grey paper, stuck onto second sheet grey-brown paper

Colourful drawing of an exotic tree with pointed leaves, outlined in bright yellow, with s small shrub with pale pink blossoms in the foreground

An exotic tree, Natal'ya Sergeevna Goncharova, 1930-1962, watercolour and bodycolour over black chalk on white wove paper

Sepia-coloured picture portrait of a woman looking down, with long loose hair framing her face

My Favourite Picture of all My Works, Julia Margaret Cameron, 1867, photograph

BOOKING

This event takes place onsite in the Western Art Print Room

Choose from one of three 40-minute sessions:

10:30-11:10 or 11:30-12:10 or 14:30-15:10

Free event, but booking is essential

BOOK YOUR FREE IN-PERSON TICKET

If you have any questions, please email us at publicprogrammes@ashmus.ox.ac.uk