Materials & Techniques: gouache / Genre: abstract art / Work Type: watercolor

1. Design for an Embroidered Stool

Creator:: Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 31 1/8 inches (27.9 x 79.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

2. Design for Omega Workshops Fabric

Creator:: Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961
Date:: 1913
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove graph paper
Dimensions:: Image: 21 × 16 inches (53.3 × 40.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

3. 1940 (composition)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: between 1940 and 1947
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and graphite on board
Dimensions:: Frame: 8 7/16 × 8 7/16 × 1 inches (21.5 × 21.5 × 2.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Study for "Reading from Torah"

Creator:: David Bomberg, 1890–1957
Date:: ca. 1914
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, watercolor and graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 12 7/8 inches (25.4 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

5. Design for street decoration, Coronation 1953

Creator:: Robin Ironside, 1912–1965
Date:: ca. 1953
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 12 3/4 inches (26.7 × 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

6. Owl

Creator:: Print made by Graham Vivian Sutherland, 1903–1980
Date:: 1968
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with gouache, watercolor, ink, wash, charcoal, chalk pastel and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 3/4 x 19 9/16 inches (65.4 x 49.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

7. Battleship

Creator:: Peter Lanyon, 1918–1964
Date:: ca. 1944
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, moderately textured, white wove paper and medium, smooth, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/8 x 13 inches (41 x 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

8. Porthleven, 1922

Creator:: Frederick Etchells, 1886–1973
Date:: 1922
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gouache, gum arabic and graphite on very thick, moderately textured, beige card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/16 × 18 5/8 inches (33.5 × 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

9. Smoking Hill

Creator:: John Tunnard, 1900–1971
Date:: 1949
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, brushed ink, gouache, chalk, and oil on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 x 22 3/8 inches (39.4 x 56.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

10. Sunlight and Shadows

Creator:: Edward Bawden, 1903–1989
Date:: 1936
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, graphite, pen and black ink, gray ink, brown ink, and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 x 22 3/8in. (46 x 56.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

11. Abstract Composition

Creator:: Gerald Wilde, 1905–1976
Date:: 1945
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 1/2 × 8 5/8 inches (26.7 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

12. Aqueous Equinox

Creator:: John Tunnard, 1900–1971
Date:: 1944
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, black chalk, gouache, pen and black ink, and scratching out on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 × 22 1/8 inches (38.7 × 56.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

13. Orpheus, study 6

Creator:: Bridget Riley, born 1931
Date:: 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache over graphite
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 3/16 × 38 1/8 inches (61.4 × 96.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Russell

14. Red and Blue

Creator:: Bridget Riley, born 1931
Date:: October 1969
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and graphite on board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 39 1/2 × 26 1/2 inches (100.3 × 67.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Russell

15. Nimbus

Creator:: John Tunnard, 1900–1971
Date:: 1960
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/8 x 22 inches (38.4 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Avery Thompson Funkhouser

16. Rug Design

Creator:: Duncan Grant, 1885–1978
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 x 15 1/2 inches (20.3 x 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker

17. Kermesse

Creator:: Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957
Date:: 1912
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, watercolor, pen and black ink, black wash and graphite on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 12 inches (30.2 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund and Gift of Neil F. and Ivan E. Phillips in memory of their mother, Mrs. Rosalie Phillips

18. Two Circles

Creator:: Dame Barbara Hepworth, 1903–1975
Date:: 1946
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gouache on lightly textured, white card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 18 1/4 inches (24.4 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Two Abstract Figures

Creator:: Jessica Dismorr, 1885–1939
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black ink, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper on board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 × 11 inches (37.5 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection

20. Female Nude and Horse

Creator:: Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957
Date:: ca. 1925
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 6 15/16 inches (22.6 x 17.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection

21. Two Figures

Creator:: Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957
Date:: ca. 1912
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, pen and black ink, black chalk and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 9 5/8 inches (31.8 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection

22. Untitled (abstract with blue, purple and brown forms)

Creator:: Douglas Portway, 1922–1993
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and mixed media painting on wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 23 x 14 inches (58.4 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joanna W. and Robert A. Martin, Class of 1954

23. Listener

Creator:: Conroy Ronald Maddox, 1912–2005
Date:: 1953
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache on very thick, smooth, cream wove card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 14 1/2 inches (24.8 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lois Severini and Enrique Foster Gittes, Yale BA 1961

24. Composition (Diptych), 1/1

Creator:: Print made by Oleg Kudryashov, born 1932
Date:: 1989
Materials & Techniques:: Drypoint, gouache, watercolor and graphite on Vélin d'Arches 300 gsm paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 40 × 28 inches (101.6 × 71.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Masterman, Culbert & Tully, LLP

25. Untitled (Study for Painting)

Creator:: John Golding, 1929–2012
Date:: 1970
Materials & Techniques:: Collage and gouache on Fashion Plate Board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 × 21 1/4 inches (61 × 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the John Golding Artistic Trust, 2017

26. Untitled

Creator:: John Walker, born 1939
Date:: 1967
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, pastel and collage
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/4 x 31 3/4in. (48.9 x 80.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Anthony and Madeleine Carter

27. Untitled

Creator:: John Golding, 1929–2012
Date:: ca. 1964
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, watercolor, and black ink on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 10 inches (35.6 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the John Golding Artistic Trust, 2017

28. Untitled

Creator:: John Golding, 1929–2012
Date:: 1971
Materials & Techniques:: Collage and gouache on board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/4 × 15 inches (54 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the John Golding Artistic Trust, 2017

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1. Design for an Embroidered Stool

2. Design for Omega Workshops Fabric

3. 1940 (composition)

4. Study for "Reading from Torah"

5. Design for street decoration, Coronation 1953

6. Owl

7. Battleship

8. Porthleven, 1922

9. Smoking Hill

10. Sunlight and Shadows

11. Abstract Composition

12. Aqueous Equinox

13. Orpheus, study 6

14. Red and Blue

15. Nimbus

16. Rug Design

17. Kermesse

18. Two Circles

19. Two Abstract Figures

20. Female Nude and Horse

21. Two Figures

22. Untitled (abstract with blue, purple and brown forms)

23. Listener

24. Composition (Diptych), 1/1

25. Untitled (Study for Painting)

26. Untitled

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