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Anna Ancher: Painting Light
4 November 2025 to 8 March 2026
EndedDanish painter Anna Ancher's first UK exhibition features 40+ works exploring light, colour and domestic life in late 19th-century coastal Denmark.
From Dulwich Picture Gallery
Discover the luminous paintings of Anna Ancher (1859–1935), one of Denmark's most celebrated and pioneering artists, in her first-ever UK exhibition. Known for her luminous paintings, bold use of colour, and ability to capture light like no other, Ancher offers a fresh and powerful perspective on the art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Though a household name in Denmark, Ancher is little known in the UK....
Read more at Dulwich Picture Gallery →Critic Reviews (2)
The Guardian
Eliza Goodpasture
See the light: the beautiful, and radical, art of Anna Ancher
"Her paintings hit a sweet spot of being both radical but legible, crowd-pleasing but novel, foreign but familiar. Leaving the exhibition, one wonders how one had avoided her work for so long. It is extraordinarily beautiful, propelling viewers to look more closely both at the paintings in front of them and at their own everyday spaces."
Read full review →The Observer
Laura Cumming
In search of Anna Ancher, the shining light of Danish art
"What is so unique about Ancher is that the light arriving through windows, screening across walls, or reflecting through interiors in her work always attracts the greatest impasto: the thickest of brushstrokes for the most ephemeral of effects. Dulwich Picture Gallery has chosen carefully, singling out her most individual routes."
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© Dulwich Picture Gallery
Anna Ancher: Painting Light
4 November 2025 to 8 March 2026
EndedDanish painter Anna Ancher's first UK exhibition features 40+ works exploring light, colour and domestic life in late 19th-century coastal Denmark.
From Dulwich Picture Gallery
Discover the luminous paintings of Anna Ancher (1859–1935), one of Denmark's most celebrated and pioneering artists, in her first-ever UK exhibition. Known for her luminous paintings, bold use of colour, and ability to capture light like no other, Ancher offers a fresh and powerful perspective on the art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Though a household name in Denmark, Ancher is little known in the UK....
Read more at Dulwich Picture Gallery →Critic Reviews (2)
The Guardian
Eliza Goodpasture
See the light: the beautiful, and radical, art of Anna Ancher
"Her paintings hit a sweet spot of being both radical but legible, crowd-pleasing but novel, foreign but familiar. Leaving the exhibition, one wonders how one had avoided her work for so long. It is extraordinarily beautiful, propelling viewers to look more closely both at the paintings in front of them and at their own everyday spaces."
Read full review →The Observer
Laura Cumming
In search of Anna Ancher, the shining light of Danish art
"What is so unique about Ancher is that the light arriving through windows, screening across walls, or reflecting through interiors in her work always attracts the greatest impasto: the thickest of brushstrokes for the most ephemeral of effects. Dulwich Picture Gallery has chosen carefully, singling out her most individual routes."
Read full review →Visit
Dulwich Village·View on artmap
Sunday10am–5pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am–5pm
Wednesday10am–5pm
Thursday10am–5pm
Friday10am–5pm
Saturday10am–5pm