Materials & Techniques: oil paint / Period: 20th century / Classification: Paintings

1. May 64 (Kepler)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1964
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and wash on board
Dimensions:: 21 1/4 x 19 3/8 inches (54 x 49.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. 1947 (Mousehole, Cornwall)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1947
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and pencil on board
Dimensions:: 7 5/8 x 9 inches (19.4 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Purchased with funds from Neil Phillips, Yale LLB 1951, and Ivan Phillips, Yale BA 1956, in memory of their parents, The Hon. Lazarus Phillips and Rosalie Phillips
On View:: Not on view

3. 1930 (playing cards)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1930
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 12 x 15 3/4 inches (30.5 x 40 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. 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

5. September 1960 (wood)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1960
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on plywood
Dimensions:: 13 x 16 15/16 inches (33 x 43 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. 1969 (composition)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1969
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on masonite relief
Dimensions:: 24 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches (62.2 x 72.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Solomon A. Smith II, Solomon Byron Smith and Barbara Neff Smith Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. 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

8. 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

9. February 1961 (Galileo)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1961
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and pencil on carved board
Dimensions:: 27 x 33 1/2 inches (68.6 x 85.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. 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

11. 1969 (winter blue)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1969
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on masonite relief
Dimensions:: 32 5/8 x 33 inches (82.9 x 83.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. 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

13. 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

14. April 1950 (goblets)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1950
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and pencil on wood
Dimensions:: Mount: 16 x 19 1/2 inches (40.6 x 49.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Louise P. Stanton
On View:: Not on view

15. 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

16. Snow at Charleston

Creator:: Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961
Date:: ca. 1950
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: 12 3/8 x 16 5/16 inches (31.4 x 41.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Elizabeth S. Tower
On View:: Not on view

17. Design for Overmantel

Creator:: Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961
Date:: 1912 to 1913
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: 30 x 22 inches (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

18. Flowers in a Lustre Pot

Creator:: Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961
Date:: ca. 1950
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 18 1/4 x 21 3/4 inches (46.4 x 55.2 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

19. Christmas Decorations

Creator:: Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961
Date:: ca. 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: 23 × 43 inches (58.4 × 109.2 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

20. Self-Portrait

Creator:: Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961
Date:: ca. 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas laid on panel
Dimensions:: 25 1/8 x 18 1/16 inches (63.8 x 45.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

21. The Artist in her Studio

Creator:: Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961
Date:: 1952
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 × 20 inches (61 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Louise Wheatley Collection, Gift of Alison, Kit, and Christopher Wheatley
On View:: Not on view

22. The Horse Mart

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: 1917 to 1918
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 x 28 inches (50.8 x 71.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

23. A Morning at Tattersall's

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: 1921
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 1/8 x 30 1/8 inches (63.8 x 76.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

24. Hay Carts, Cumberland Market

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 7/8 × 24 inches (47.9 × 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

25. The Weigh House, Cumberland Market

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: ca. 1914
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 1/8 x 24 1/8 inches (51.1 x 61.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

26. The Ford

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: 1918 to 1919
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 x 26 inches (55.9 x 66 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

27. The Turn Rice-Plough, Sussex

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: ca. 1909
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 1/8 x 35 1/2 inches (66.4 x 90.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

28. "Quiet with all Road Nuisances"

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: ca. 1912
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 1/8 x 24 1/4 inches (48.6 x 61.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

29. The Caller at the Mill

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: 1918 to 1919
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 x 26 inches (55.9 x 66 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

30. Aldwych

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: 1924
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/2 x 32 inches (62.2 x 81.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

31. Sylvia Darning

Creator:: Harold Gilman, 1876–1919
Date:: 1917
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 1/4 x 18 1/4 inches (41.3 x 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

32. Cambrian Road, Richmond

Creator:: Spencer Frederick Gore, 1878–1914
Date:: 1913 to 1914
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

33. An Extensive Landscape in Yorkshire

Creator:: Spencer Frederick Gore, 1878–1914
Date:: ca. 1907
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 32 × 37 1/4 inches (81.3 × 94.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
On View:: Not on view

34. Fitzroy Street (William Coldstream and Graham Bell in an Interior)

Creator:: Geoffrey Tibble, 1909–1952
Date:: ca. 1935
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 x 32 inches (68.6 x 81.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
On View:: Not on view

35. The Princess of Wales Pub, Trafalgar Square: Mrs. Francis behind the Bar

Creator:: Malcolm Drummond, 1880–1945
Date:: ca. 1931
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 x 17 1/16 inches (66 x 43.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

36. Design for Tiger Hunting Mural in the Cabaret Theatre Club

Creator:: Charles Ginner, 1878–1952
Date:: 1912
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and pencil on card
Dimensions:: 13 1/2 x 22 5/8 inches (34.3 x 57.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

37. Design for Deer Hunting Mural in the Cabaret Theatre Club

Creator:: Spencer Frederick Gore, 1878–1914
Date:: 1912
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and chalk on paper
Dimensions:: 11 x 24 inches (27.9 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

38. Landscape with a Grazing Horse

Creator:: James Dickson Innes, 1887–1914
Date:: ca. 1912
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 12 11/16 x 16 inches (32.2 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Joseph H. Ryder Fund
On View:: Not on view

39. Souvenir of Florence

Creator:: Paul Nash, 1889–1946
Date:: 1929
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 x 17 1/4 inches (68.6 x 43.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

40. Pamela Fry

Creator:: Duncan Grant, 1885–1978
Date:: 1911
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 1/2 x 29 9/16 inches (49.5 x 75.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

41. 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

42. The Beach

Creator:: Geoffrey Tibble, 1909–1952
Date:: 1949
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 × 18 inches (61 × 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

43. Cottages at Durweston, Dorset

Creator:: Gilbert Spencer, 1892–1979
Date:: ca. 1923
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 12 3/4 x 16 inches (32.4 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

44. Penwith

Creator:: Peter Lanyon, 1918–1964
Date:: 1948
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 8 1/2 x 20 3/4 inches (21.6 x 52.7 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

45. Abstract Landscape (Dark Fir Shoreham II Morning)

Creator:: Alan Reynolds, 1926–2014
Date:: ca. 1952
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 40 1/8 × 30 1/8 inches (101.9 × 76.5 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

46. The Start

Creator:: Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959
Date:: ca. 1950
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/8 x 24 1/8 inches (46 x 61.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

47. Transformation of Red

Creator:: John Tunnard, 1900–1971
Date:: 1939
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 13 3/4 x 26 inches (34.9 x 66 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

48. Maud

Creator:: Jesse Dale Cast, 1900–1976
Date:: 1929
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches (54.6 x 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Cast
On View:: Not on view

49. 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

50. 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

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1. May 64 (Kepler)

2. 1947 (Mousehole, Cornwall)

3. 1930 (playing cards)

4. 1951 (still life – sweet peas)

5. September 1960 (wood)

6. 1969 (composition)

7. Jan 20 1948 (still life, Newlyn)

8. May 1955 (Gwithian)

9. February 1961 (Galileo)

10. February 1957 (brown and grey)

11. 1969 (winter blue)

12. 1934 (still life)

13. July 15 1949 (St Ives harbour)

14. April 1950 (goblets)

15. 1929 (still life)

16. Snow at Charleston

17. Design for Overmantel

18. Flowers in a Lustre Pot

19. Christmas Decorations

20. Self-Portrait

21. The Artist in her Studio

22. The Horse Mart

23. A Morning at Tattersall's

24. Hay Carts, Cumberland Market

25. The Weigh House, Cumberland Market

26. The Ford

27. The Turn Rice-Plough, Sussex

28. "Quiet with all Road Nuisances"

29. The Caller at the Mill

30. Aldwych

31. Sylvia Darning

32. Cambrian Road, Richmond

33. An Extensive Landscape in Yorkshire

34. Fitzroy Street (William Coldstream and Graham Bell in an Interior)

35. The Princess of Wales Pub, Trafalgar Square: Mrs. Francis behind the Bar

36. Design for Tiger Hunting Mural in the Cabaret Theatre Club

37. Design for Deer Hunting Mural in the Cabaret Theatre Club

38. Landscape with a Grazing Horse

39. Souvenir of Florence

40. Pamela Fry

41. Three Cadmiums

42. The Beach

43. Cottages at Durweston, Dorset

44. Penwith

45. Abstract Landscape (Dark Fir Shoreham II Morning)

46. The Start

47. Transformation of Red

48. Maud

49. Tree of Life (Clair)

50. Painting, Summer 1963