Materials & Techniques: oil paint / Image Use: Under Certain Circumstances / Subject Terms: abstract art

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. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

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. 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

8. 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

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. 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

11. 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

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. 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

14. Gynæcology Chair

Creator:: Julie Roberts, born 1963
Date:: 1994
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:: 60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

15. Apotheosis

Creator:: Sir Sidney Nolan, 1917–1992
Date:: 1953
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 36 x 48 inches (91.4 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
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. No. 3, 1957

Creator:: John Wells, 1907–2000
Date:: 1957
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 6 x 28 inches (15.2 x 71.1 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

18. Cornish Landscape

Creator:: John Minton, 1917–1957
Date:: 1946
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. John MacLeod

Creator:: Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957
Date:: 1938
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 20 inches (76.2 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. In Memoriam: Rupert Brooke

Creator:: Duncan Grant, 1885–1978
Date:: 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and collage on panel
Dimensions:: 21 9/16 x 11 3/4 inches (54.8 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

28. 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

29. Forecast

Creator:: John Tunnard, 1900–1971
Date:: 1945
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on gesso-prepared board
Dimensions:: 24 x 22 3/4 inches (61 x 57.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
On View:: Not on view

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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

33. Garden No. 1

Creator:: John Hubbard, 1931–2017
Date:: 1983
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: 43 x 45 inches (109.2 x 114.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Hubbard
On View:: Not on view

34. 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

35. Marsh Landscape - Winter

Creator:: Denis Wirth-Miller, 1915–2010
Date:: 1958
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 7/8 x 35 7/8 inches (91.1 x 91.1 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

36. 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

37. 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

38. Mountain Road near Platres, Cyprus

Creator:: David Bomberg, 1890–1957
Date:: 1948
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 x 30in. (66 x 76.2cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
On View:: Not on view

39. The Painting of Janet Churchman

Creator:: John Bratby, 1928–1992
Date:: 1958
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on masonite
Dimensions:: 79 x 146 inches (200.7 x 370.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kathleen and Joseph D. Policano
On View:: Not on view

40. June 1958

Creator:: John Wells, 1907–2000
Date:: 1958
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 12 5/8 x 10 5/8 inches (32.1 x 27 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

41. Night Flowering

Creator:: John Wells, 1907–2000
Date:: 1957
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas board
Dimensions:: 11 7/16 x 8 7/8 inches (29.1 x 22.5 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

42. The Garden

Creator:: John Bratby, 1928–1992
Date:: between 1950 and 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 47 5/8 x 35 1/2 inches (121 x 90.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Melville P. Roberts
On View:: Not on view

43. 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

44. 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

45. 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

46. Seeding in Winter

Creator:: Alan Reynolds, 1926–2014
Date:: 1953
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 19 3/4 x 24 inches (50.2 x 61 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

47. Two Menhirs

Creator:: Bryan Wynter, 1915–1975
Date:: ca. 1950
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 15 3/8 x 14 3/4 inches (39.1 x 37.5 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

48. 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

49. Painting on Red

Creator:: John Wells, 1907–2000
Date:: 1947
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 14 x 10 inches (35.6 x 25.4 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

50. 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

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1. May 64 (Kepler)

2. Jan 20 1948 (still life, Newlyn)

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4. September 1960 (wood)

5. 1951 (still life – sweet peas)

6. 1969 (composition)

7. 1969 (winter blue)

8. February 1957 (brown and grey)

9. February 1961 (Galileo)

10. July 15 1949 (St Ives harbour)

11. April 1950 (goblets)

12. 1934 (still life)

13. 1929 (still life)

14. Gynæcology Chair

15. Apotheosis

16. Passchendaele 1

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18. Cornish Landscape

19. Abstract Landscape (Dark Fir Shoreham II Morning)

20. Transformation of Red

21. Thread

22. John MacLeod

23. Tree of Life (Clair)

24. Painting, Summer 1963

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26. Flighted Ones

27. In Memoriam: Rupert Brooke

28. Key Ring

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33. Garden No. 1

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38. Mountain Road near Platres, Cyprus

39. The Painting of Janet Churchman

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