Materials & Techniques: painting (technique) / Period: 20th century

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. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

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. August 1963 (two mugs, one blue)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: August 1963
Materials & Techniques:: Relief painting
Dimensions:: 18 1/2 × 23 7/8 inches (47 × 60.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. 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

10. 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

11. 1938 (composition)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1938
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache on board
Dimensions:: 19 5/8 x 26 3/4 inches (49.8 x 67.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

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. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. "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

33. Hound Exercise

Creator:: Peter Biegel, 1913–1988
Date:: ca. 1950
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, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

34. Over the Sawdust! South & West, Wilts. Point-to-Point

Creator:: Peter Biegel, 1913–1988
Date:: 1953
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 1/8 × 24 1/8 inches (51.1 × 61.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

35. String Out Exercising at Newmarket, 1913

Creator:: Sir John Lavery, 1856–1941
Date:: 1913
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 30 1/8 inches (63.5 x 76.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

36. Houghton Meeting, Newmarket, 1913

Creator:: Sir John Lavery, 1856–1941
Date:: 1913
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

37. Almost Away

Creator:: Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959
Date:: mid-20th century
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 5/16 x 24 3/16 inches (51.6 x 61.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

38. Cottage Interior

Creator:: William Ratcliffe, 1870–1955
Date:: 1911 to 1912
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on plywood
Dimensions:: 15 x 20 inches (38.1 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

39. 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

40. Self-Portrait in Missoni Cardigan with Patti in Red and Istanbul Mosque

Creator:: John Bratby, 1928–1992
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 1/16 x 36 inches (122.1 x 91.4 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

41. Self-Portrait at the Age of 83

Creator:: William Powell Frith, 1819–1909
Date:: 1901
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 5 1/2 × 11 inches (14 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
On View:: Not on view

42. 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

43. Nudes

Creator:: Anthony Fry, 1927–2016
Date:: ca. 1962
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on concrete backed with plywood
Dimensions:: 36 7/8 x 40 7/8 inches (93.7 x 103.8 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

44. The Moelwyns from Llan Ffestiniog

Creator:: James Dickson Innes, 1887–1914
Date:: between 1912 and 1913
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 8 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches (22.2 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

45. 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

46. A Farmhouse

Creator:: Duncan Grant, 1885–1978
Date:: 1961
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas on masonite
Dimensions:: 26 x 23 inches (66 x 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
On View:: Not on view

47. Brilliant Corners

Creator:: Stephen Buckley, born 1944
Date:: 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 33 x 33 x 2in. (83.8 x 83.8 x 5.1cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia C. Jones
On View:: Not on view

48. Venetian Canal

Creator:: Duncan Grant, 1885–1978
Date:: ca. 1920
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 27 3/4 x 20in. (70.5 x 50.8cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
On View:: Not on view

49. Pulteney Bridge, Bath

Creator:: Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942
Date:: between 1916 and 1917
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/2 x 45 1/4 inches (72.4 x 114.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

50. 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

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1. May 64 (Kepler)

2. September 1960 (wood)

3. 1951 (still life – sweet peas)

4. 1930 (playing cards)

5. 1969 (composition)

6. 1947 (Mousehole, Cornwall)

7. 1969 (winter blue)

8. August 1963 (two mugs, one blue)

9. July 15 1949 (St Ives harbour)

10. 1934 (still life)

11. 1938 (composition)

12. February 1957 (brown and grey)

13. Jan 20 1948 (still life, Newlyn)

14. May 1955 (Gwithian)

15. April 1950 (goblets)

16. February 1961 (Galileo)

17. 1929 (still life)

18. Design for Overmantel

19. Snow at Charleston

20. Self-Portrait

21. Flowers in a Lustre Pot

22. Christmas Decorations

23. The Artist in her Studio

24. The Turn Rice-Plough, Sussex

25. The Caller at the Mill

26. The Horse Mart

27. The Ford

28. A Morning at Tattersall's

29. Hay Carts, Cumberland Market

30. The Weigh House, Cumberland Market

31. Aldwych

32. "Quiet with all Road Nuisances"

33. Hound Exercise

34. Over the Sawdust! South & West, Wilts. Point-to-Point

35. String Out Exercising at Newmarket, 1913

36. Houghton Meeting, Newmarket, 1913

37. Almost Away

38. Cottage Interior

39. The Garden

40. Self-Portrait in Missoni Cardigan with Patti in Red and Istanbul Mosque

41. Self-Portrait at the Age of 83

42. Marsh Landscape - Winter

43. Nudes

44. The Moelwyns from Llan Ffestiniog

45. Mountain Road near Platres, Cyprus

46. A Farmhouse

47. Brilliant Corners

48. Venetian Canal

49. Pulteney Bridge, Bath

50. Apotheosis