Materials & Techniques: oil paint and canvas / Genre: abstract art / Image Use: Under Certain Circumstances / Classification: Paintings

1. Jan 20 1948 (still life, Newlyn)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1948
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas, laid on board
Dimensions:: 31 3/4 x 20 1/4 inches (80.6 x 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. May 1955 (Gwithian)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1955
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 3/4 x 41 3/4 inches (106 x 106 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. 1934 (still life)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1934
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and pencil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 1/4 x 15 inches (28.6 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. July 15 1949 (St Ives harbour)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1949
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and pencil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 7/8 x 15 7/8 inches (35.2 x 40.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. 1929 (still life)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1929, reworked 1935
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and pencil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 1/2 x 32 1/2 inches (67.3 x 82.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. Three Cadmiums

Creator:: Patrick Heron, 1920–1999
Date:: 1966
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 60 x 72 inches (152.4 x 182.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

7. Tree of Life (Clair)

Creator:: Andrew Forge, 1923–2002
Date:: between 1987 and 1989
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 46 x 58 inches (116.8 x 147.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Given by the Artist
On View:: Not on view

8. Painting, Summer 1963

Creator:: Roger Hilton, 1911–1975
Date:: 1963
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 55 1/2 x 64 1/4 inches (141 x 163.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

9. Causeway

Creator:: Kit Barker, 1916–1988
Date:: 1962
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 10 x 20 inches (25.4 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Florence and Maynard Mack
On View:: Not on view

10. Conversation with Fate

Creator:: John Bellany, 1942–2013
Date:: 1989
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 79 x 91 inches (200.7 x 231.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia and Morris Orden, New York
On View:: Not on view

11. Dancing Figures, No. 4

Creator:: Anthony Fry, 1927–2016
Date:: ca. 1957
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 x 18 inches (35.6 x 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
On View:: Not on view

12. 11/60

Creator:: John McHale, 1922–1978
Date:: ca. 1960
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and paper collage on canvas
Dimensions:: 59 7/8 x 39 7/8 inches (152.1 x 101.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Magda Cordell McHale
On View:: Not on view

13. Pink Eyes

Creator:: John McHale, 1922–1978
Date:: 1959
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and paper collage on canvas
Dimensions:: 60 x 40 inches (152.4 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Magda Cordell McHale
On View:: Not on view

14. May Month, 1956

Creator:: John Wells, 1907–2000
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 60 x 29 15/16 inches (152.4 x 76 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
On View:: Not on view

15. Thread

Creator:: Peter Nadin, born 1954
Date:: 1993
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 90 × 70 inches (228.6 × 177.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Given by the Friends of British Art at Yale
On View:: Not on view

16. Passchendaele 1

Creator:: John Walker, born 1939
Date:: 1996
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 108 x 192 inches (274.3 x 487.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

17. Blowing Dandelions

Creator:: George Henry, 1858–1943
Date:: 1890
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches (49.5 x 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

18. Dark Forest

Creator:: Ivon Hitchens, 1893–1979
Date:: 1962
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 x 52 inches (53.3 x 132.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

19. Orange on Top

Creator:: Trevor Bell, 1930–2017
Date:: 1959
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 x 36 inches (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

20. Dyadic Encounter

Creator:: Desmond Morris, born 1928
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 x 30 inches (50.8 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia and Nathan Shippee
On View:: Not on view

21. Delicious Morsel for the Crocodile

Creator:: Alan Davie, 1920–2014
Date:: 1963
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 x 60 inches (121.9 x 152.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Judith Rothschild Foundation in memory of Janet Cowan Bosse
On View:: Not on view

22. Key Ring

Creator:: Richard Smith, 1931–2016
Date:: ca. 1985
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas with metal supports
Dimensions:: 78 × 81 inches (198.1 × 205.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Monique Goldstrom - Giamfranco Caiazzo Family
On View:: Not on view

23. Multi-Colored Dots on a Gray Ground

Creator:: Jas Wood, 1889–1975
Date:: mid-1920s
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 9/16 x 16 9/16 inches (42.1 x 42.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Iola S. Haverstick Fund
On View:: Not on view

24. School of London Diasporists

Creator:: R. B. Kitaj, 1932–2007
Date:: 1988 to 2004
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 x 60 inches (91.4 x 152.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist
On View:: Not on view

25. Dark Space

Creator:: Ivon Hitchens, 1893–1979
Date:: 1967
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 1/2 × 52 inches (59.7 × 132.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joanna W. and Robert A. Martin, Class of 1954
On View:: Not on view

26. WEJ (After Auerbach)

Creator:: R. B. Kitaj, 1932–2007
Date:: 1991
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and charcoal on canvas
Dimensions:: 60 x 39 1/2 inches (152.4 x 100.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the R. B. Kitaj Estate
On View:: Not on view

27. Linen Blue and Yellow

Creator:: Sir Terry Frost, 1915–2003
Date:: 1961
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and collage on canvas
Dimensions:: 76 x 48 inches (193 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Purchased with contributions from the following Friends of British Art: Joan and Bugs Baer; Louise and David G. Carter; Lee MacCormick Edwards; Christopher Forbes; Alison P. Henning; Rose and Larry Hughes; Gale and Bernard Kosto; Elaine and Melvin Merians; Claire and Millard Pryor; Alison and Ross D. Siragusa, Jr.; Ira Spanierman; Liz and Bill Tower; George Weiss; Nicolette Wernick; Miriam M. and Charles O. Wood, III
On View:: Not on view

28. Flighted Ones

Creator:: Gillian Ayres, 1930–2018
Date:: 1995
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 96 1/16 x 84 inches (244 x 213.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

29. Machine and Birds

Creator:: Prunella Clough, 1919–1999
Date:: 1958
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 1/2 x 40 inches (67.3 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker
On View:: Not on view

30. Group of Dancing Figures

Creator:: Anthony Fry, 1927–2016
Date:: ca. 1961
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 28 3/4 x 36 3/4 inches (73 x 93.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker
On View:: Not on view

31. Still Life in Shadow

Creator:: Jack Smith, 1928–2011
Date:: 1959
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 1/4 x 39 1/2 inches (92.1 x 100.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker
On View:: Not on view

32. Tightrope Walker

Creator:: William Turnbull, 1922–2012
Date:: 1953
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 49 x 39 inches (124.5 x 99.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nicholas Pritzker
On View:: Not on view

33. Warrior

Creator:: Keith Vaughan, 1912–1977
Date:: 1961
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches (61.6 x 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker
On View:: Not on view

34. Cellist through the Window

Creator:: Norman Black, 1920–1999
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 x 14 inches (50.8 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nicholas Pritzker
On View:: Not on view

35. Crown

Creator:: Bernard Cohen, born 1933
Date:: 1964
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 x 36 inches (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Terrence D. Curley in Memory of Olga M. Waisanen
On View:: Not on view

36. Diorama SS.6.67

Creator:: Ian Stephenson, 1934–2000
Date:: 1967
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and enamel on two canvases
Dimensions:: 66 × 66 inches (167.6 × 167.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie
On View:: Not on view

37. Diorama SS 10.67

Creator:: Ian Stephenson, 1934–2000
Date:: 1967
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and enamel on two canvases
Dimensions:: 66 × 66 inches (167.6 × 167.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie
On View:: Not on view

38. Conservatory I / Manon

Creator:: John Walker, born 1939
Date:: 1978-1979
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 80 x 62 inches (203.2 x 157.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie
On View:: Not on view

39. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence

Creator:: Henry Inlander, 1925–1983
Date:: 1962
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 47 1/2 x 47 1/2 inches (120.7 x 120.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker
On View:: Not on view

40. Arizona Landscape

Creator:: Henry Inlander, 1925–1983
Date:: 1962
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 x 44 inches (99.1 x 111.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker
On View:: Not on view

41. Untitled Abstract

Creator:: Roger Furse, 1903–1972
Date:: 1962
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Overall: 16 3/16 × 20 1/8 × 1 7/8 inches (41.1 × 51.1 × 4.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gregory F.W. Todd, Yale BA 1976, in memory of Joan Castle Sitwell
On View:: Not on view

42. Kingdom

Creator:: Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951
Date:: 2015
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 94 1/2 × 67 inches (240 × 170.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Charitable Foundation, and Friends of British Art Fund
On View:: Not on view

43. Study for Oceania

Creator:: John Walker, born 1939
Date:: 1982
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 60 x 84 inches (152.4 x 213.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Anthony and Madeleine Carter
On View:: Not on view

44. Shelter

Creator:: John Walker, born 1939
Date:: between 1967 and 1968
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 x 216 inches (91.4 x 548.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Anthony and Madeleine Carter
On View:: Not on view

45. For Hannah (Juggernaut Series)

Creator:: John Walker, born 1939
Date:: 1975
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 120 x 93 inches (304.8 x 236.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Anthony and Madeleine Carter
On View:: Not on view

46. Harrow Hill after Snow

Creator:: Keith Vaughan, 1912–1977
Date:: 1968
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 36 inches (101.6 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

47. Vespa Couple

Creator:: Peter de Francia, 1921–2012
Date:: ca. 1963
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Overall: 48 × 72 inches (121.9 × 182.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Alix de Francia
On View:: Not on view

48. Remembrance

Creator:: John Walker, born 1939
Date:: 1971
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 102 x 240 inches (259.1 x 609.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Maryann Bell Werronen and Henry J. Werronen
On View:: Not on view

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1. Jan 20 1948 (still life, Newlyn)

2. May 1955 (Gwithian)

3. 1934 (still life)

4. July 15 1949 (St Ives harbour)

5. 1929 (still life)

6. Three Cadmiums

7. Tree of Life (Clair)

8. Painting, Summer 1963

9. Causeway

10. Conversation with Fate

11. Dancing Figures, No. 4

12. 11/60

13. Pink Eyes

14. May Month, 1956

15. Thread

16. Passchendaele 1

17. Blowing Dandelions

18. Dark Forest

19. Orange on Top

20. Dyadic Encounter

21. Delicious Morsel for the Crocodile

22. Key Ring

23. Multi-Colored Dots on a Gray Ground

24. School of London Diasporists

25. Dark Space

26. WEJ (After Auerbach)

27. Linen Blue and Yellow

28. Flighted Ones

29. Machine and Birds

30. Group of Dancing Figures

31. Still Life in Shadow

32. Tightrope Walker

33. Warrior

34. Cellist through the Window

35. Crown

36. Diorama SS.6.67

37. Diorama SS 10.67

38. Conservatory I / Manon

39. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence

40. Arizona Landscape

41. Untitled Abstract

42. Kingdom

43. Study for Oceania

44. Shelter

45. For Hannah (Juggernaut Series)

46. Harrow Hill after Snow

47. Vespa Couple

48. Remembrance