Materials & Techniques: graphite / Period: 20th century / Genre: abstract art / Subject Terms: abstract art

1. 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

2. 1951 (still life – sweet peas)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1951
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and oil on board
Dimensions:: 8 1/16 x 10 inches (20.5 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Birches Leaning Out of Square

Creator:: David Nash, born 1945
Date:: 1992
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, black chalk, and graphite on white Rives Blanc wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 11 1/8 inches (25.4 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

4. Castel Meur, Rocky Coast, Brittany

Creator:: John Piper, 1903–1992
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pastel on medium, smooth, cream graph paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 13 3/4 inches (22.5 × 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

5. Circle Enclosed

Creator:: Alastair Morton, 1910–1963
Date:: ca. 1941
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, crayon, graphite, and scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 x 20 inches (35.6 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

6. Cliffs

Creator:: Paul Nash, 1889–1946
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 × 6 3/4 inches (25.1 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Drawing for Page 11 of "Rough Ride" - Once Had a Donkey / Ride Up and Find It

Creator:: David Tremlett, born 1945
Date:: 1985
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel and graphite on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 8 1/4 inches (14.9 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

11. Drawing for Page 13 of "Rough Ride"

Creator:: David Tremlett, born 1945
Date:: 1985
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel and graphite on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 8 1/4 inches (14.9 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

12. Drawing for Page 14 of "Rough Ride"

Creator:: David Tremlett, born 1945
Date:: 1985
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pastel on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 × 16 inches (15.2 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

13. Drawing for Page 15 of "Rough Ride"

Creator:: David Tremlett, born 1945
Date:: 1985
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pastel on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 8 1/4 inches (14.9 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. Drawing for Page 18 of "Rough Ride"

Creator:: David Tremlett, born 1945
Date:: 1985
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 8 1/4 inches (14.9 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

15. Drawing for Page 2 of "Rough Ride" - Irangi

Creator:: David Tremlett, born 1945
Date:: 1985
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel and graphite on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 8 1/4 inches (14.9 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

16. Drawing for Page 5 of "Rough Ride" - Corroboree

Creator:: David Tremlett, born 1945
Date:: 1985
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pastel on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 8 1/4 inches (14.9 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

17. Drawing for Page 8 of "Rough Ride"

Creator:: David Tremlett, born 1945
Date:: 1985
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel and graphite on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 8 1/4 inches (14.9 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

18. Faim, Soif, Cris, Danse, Danse, Danse

Creator:: Keith Vaughan, 1912–1977
Date:: 1949
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 6 1/2 inches (26.7 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

19. February 1957 (brown and grey)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1957
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and graphite on panel
Dimensions:: 8 × 7 inches (20.3 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

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. Five Abstract Sketches, and Studies for Male and Female Figures

Creator:: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891–1915
Date:: between 1910 and 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Brushed black ink, graphite and red pencil on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 8 7/8 inches (17.8 x 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. Five Studies for a Sculpture

Creator:: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891–1915
Date:: between 1910 and 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Black ink and graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches (14.6 x 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

23. 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

24. Man with a Book and Sword Standing on a Snake

Creator:: Jessica Dismorr, 1885–1939
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and graphite on medium cream slightly textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 15/16 × 1 11/16 inches (7.5 × 4.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection

25. May 2-54 (prelude)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: ca. 1954
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 16 3/4in. (29.2 x 42.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Block, Sr., class of 1936, and Mrs. Block

26. Mornington Crescent

Creator:: Frank Auerbach, born 1931
Date:: ca. 1970
Materials & Techniques:: Oil pastel and graphite on thin, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 8 3/4 inches (17.5 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dorothy C. Weicker in honor and memory of her parents, Beatrice Trostel and Frederick E. Weicker, Yale BS 1931

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. Reclining Figure

Creator:: Henry Moore, 1898–1986
Date:: 1939
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, white chalk, graphite, gray wash and crayon on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 30 3/4 x 35 1/2 x 3 inches (78.1 x 90.2 x 7.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jeffrey H. Loria, Yale BA 1962, in memory of Harriet Loria Popowitz

31. 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

32. Relief Design of an Abstract Female Figure

Creator:: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891–1915
Date:: between 1910 and 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Brushed black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (29.2 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

33. 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

34. Seated Woman

Creator:: Jessica Dismorr, 1885–1939
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and graphite on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 15/16 × 2 13/16 inches (7.5 × 7.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection

35. Six Studies

Creator:: Alastair Morton, 1910–1963
Date:: 1941
Materials & Techniques:: Crayon, graphite, and colored pencil on medium, moderately textured cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 8 1/2 inches (30.2 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

36. Standing Female Figure

Creator:: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891–1915
Date:: between 1910 and 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Brushed black ink, brown wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 7 1/8 inches (29.2 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

37. 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

38. Study for a Figural Sculpture, Crouching Figure

Creator:: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891–1915
Date:: between 1910 and 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Brushed black ink, graphite and red pencil on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 8 7/8 inches (17.8 x 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

39. Study for a Sculptural Column

Creator:: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891–1915
Date:: between 1910 and 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Brushed black ink, brown wash, red colored pencil and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches (29.2 x 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

40. Study of a Female Figure, Abstract Figure Study

Creator:: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891–1915
Date:: between 1910 and 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Brushed black ink, graphite and red pencil on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 8 7/8 inches (17.8 x 22.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

41. 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

42. To My Constant Visitors

Creator:: Michael Challenger, born 1939
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, smooth, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 11 3/4 inches (22.9 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Richard H. Ullman

43. Troubadors

Creator:: William Roberts, 1895–1980
Date:: ca. 1919
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/16 × 13 1/4 inches (23 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

44. 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

45. 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

46. Two Dancing Figures and Five Studies for a Mother and Child Grouping

Creator:: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891–1915
Date:: between 1910 and 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Brushed black ink, graphite, red colored pencil on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 x 17 3/4 inches (14.6 x 45.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

47. 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

48. Untitled

Creator:: Robert Medley, 1905–1994
Date:: 1962
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of R. B. Kitaj

49. Untitled

Creator:: Richard Smith, 1931–2016
Date:: 1965
Materials & Techniques:: Mixed media collage on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 17 inches (35.6 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of R. B. Kitaj

50. Warrior for Timon of Athens

Creator:: Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957
Date:: 1919
Materials & Techniques:: Black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 10 15/16 inches (24.4 × 27.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection

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1. 1940 (composition)

2. 1951 (still life – sweet peas)

3. Birches Leaning Out of Square

4. Castel Meur, Rocky Coast, Brittany

5. Circle Enclosed

6. Cliffs

7. Composition (Diptych), 1/1

8. Design for Omega Workshops Fabric

9. Design for street decoration, Coronation 1953

10. Drawing for Page 11 of "Rough Ride" - Once Had a Donkey / Ride Up and Find It

11. Drawing for Page 13 of "Rough Ride"

12. Drawing for Page 14 of "Rough Ride"

13. Drawing for Page 15 of "Rough Ride"

14. Drawing for Page 18 of "Rough Ride"

15. Drawing for Page 2 of "Rough Ride" - Irangi

16. Drawing for Page 5 of "Rough Ride" - Corroboree

17. Drawing for Page 8 of "Rough Ride"

18. Faim, Soif, Cris, Danse, Danse, Danse

19. February 1957 (brown and grey)

20. Female Nude and Horse

21. Five Abstract Sketches, and Studies for Male and Female Figures

22. Five Studies for a Sculpture

23. Kermesse

24. Man with a Book and Sword Standing on a Snake

25. May 2-54 (prelude)

26. Mornington Crescent

27. Orpheus, study 6

28. Owl

29. Porthleven, 1922

30. Reclining Figure

31. Red and Blue

32. Relief Design of an Abstract Female Figure

33. Rug Design

34. Seated Woman

35. Six Studies

36. Standing Female Figure

37. Study for "Reading from Torah"

38. Study for a Figural Sculpture, Crouching Figure

39. Study for a Sculptural Column

40. Study of a Female Figure, Abstract Figure Study

41. Sunlight and Shadows

42. To My Constant Visitors

43. Troubadors

44. Two Abstract Figures

45. Two Circles

46. Two Dancing Figures and Five Studies for a Mother and Child Grouping

47. Two Figures

48. Untitled

49. Untitled

50. Warrior for Timon of Athens