Collection: Prints and Drawings / Image Use: Under Certain Circumstances / Subject Terms: abstract art

1. 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

2. 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

3. Two Bottles and Glass

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1967 (1973)
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 x 13in. (33 x 33cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Russell

4. Still Life: Jug & Glass

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1948
Materials & Techniques:: Drypoint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 13/16 x 5 15/16in. (19.9 x 15.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

5. 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

6. Design for an Embroidered Stool

Creator:: Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 31 1/8 inches (27.9 x 79.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

7. Fall of the Leaf

Creator:: Print made by Sybil Andrews, 1898–1992
Date:: 1934
Materials & Techniques:: Color linocut on thin, slightly textured, beige Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/4 x 11 15/16 inches (40 x 30.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

8. Owl

Creator:: Print made by Graham 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

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. Piano Recital

Creator:: Ceri Richards, 1903–1971
Date:: 1943
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, pastel, scratching out and scraping out on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 × 22 1/2 inches (39.7 × 57.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

11. Abstract Composition

Creator:: Gerald Wilde, 1905–1976
Date:: 1945
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 1/2 × 8 5/8 inches (26.7 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

12. Aqueous Equinox

Creator:: John Tunnard, 1900–1971
Date:: 1944
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, black chalk, gouache, pen and black ink, and scratching out on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 × 22 1/8 inches (38.7 × 56.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

13. Wind

Creator:: Print made by C. R. W. Nevinson, 1889–1946
Date:: 1918
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream antique laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 x 11 7/16 inches (21.7 x 29 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. 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

15. 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

16. Souls Singing in the Evening

Creator:: Cecil Collins, 1908–1989
Date:: ca. 1933
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 28 3/4 × 21 3/8 inches (73 × 54.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. Landscape, Corsica

Creator:: John Minton, 1917–1957
Date:: 1947
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and pen and gray-blue ink with wash, white wax crayon and pastel on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 19 1/2 inches (38.1 x 49.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. Abstract Figure Study

Creator:: Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957
Date:: 1921
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with white gouache on medium, smooth, cream wove printed paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches (26.4 x 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. Bathroom Mirror

Creator:: Patrick Caulfield, 1936–2005
Date:: 1968
Materials & Techniques:: Screen print
Dimensions:: Sheet: 28 x 36 3/4in. (71.1 x 93.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia C. Jones

23. Battleship

Creator:: Peter Lanyon, 1918–1964
Date:: ca. 1944
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, moderately textured, white wove paper and medium, smooth, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/8 x 13 inches (41 x 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

24. Untitled

Creator:: John Walker, born 1939
Date:: 1968
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 3/4 × 34 inches (57.8 × 86.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia C. Jones

25. 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

26. 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

27. Nimbus

Creator:: John Tunnard, 1900–1971
Date:: 1960
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/8 x 22 inches (38.4 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Avery Thompson Funkhouser

28. Sculls

Creator:: Print made by Sybil Andrews, 1898–1992
Date:: 1930
Materials & Techniques:: Linocut on thin, smooth, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 9 3/16 inches (23.2 × 23.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom, M.D.

29. Illustration to "Beyond This Limit"

Creator:: Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 9 inches (31.8 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

30. Illustration to "Beyond This Limit"

Creator:: Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 7 3/8 inches (27.3 x 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

31. Illustration to "Beyond This Limit"

Creator:: Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink 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

32. Illustration to "Beyond This Limit"

Creator:: Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and collage on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches (37.5 x 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

33. 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

34. Figures in the Wind

Creator:: Print made by John Copley, 1875–1950
Date:: 1940
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/8 x 12 13/16 inches (41.6 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

35. 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

36. Landscape, Cornwall

Creator:: Alan Reynolds, 1926–2014
Date:: 1958
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 16 11/16in. (27.9 x 42.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

37. The Shapes of Colour (Plate 2): Small Horizon with Orange, Lime, Lemon and Cherry. June 1957.

Creator:: Patrick Heron, 1920–1999
Date:: 1978
Materials & Techniques:: Screen print on moderately thick, moderately textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 x 13 7/8 inches (50.2 x 35.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The Lewis Walpole Library Collection

38. Glass 2 (From There)

Creator:: Robyn Denny, 1930–2014
Date:: 1971
Materials & Techniques:: Screen print on thick, very smooth, bright white card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 x 11 15/16 inches (25.7 x 30.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The Lewis Walpole Library Collection

39. Sheep at Tulliallan

Creator:: Print made by Craigie Aitchison, 1926–2009
Date:: 1998
Materials & Techniques:: Screen print on thick, rough, yellow wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/16 x 15 1/16 inches (45.8 x 38.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The Lewis Walpole Library Collection

40. 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

41. Picasso's Meninas

Creator:: Print made by Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011
Date:: 1973
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, soft-ground etching, stipple engraving, open-bite, lift-ground, aquatint, line engraving, drypoint, and burnishing; artist's proof on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 13/16 x 22 3/8 inches (75.8 x 56.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Russell

42. Dulles (Capital) Portfolio

Creator:: Print made by Sarah Morris, born 1967
Date:: 2001
Materials & Techniques:: 9 color screen prints, with title page and colophon in buckram-covered wooden box on 410gsm Somerset white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 × 29 inches (73.7 × 73.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

43. 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

44. Untitled [Rose]

Creator:: Bridget Riley, born 1931
Date:: 1978
Materials & Techniques:: Screen print
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 3/4 x 37 1/2in. (67.9 x 95.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Russell

45. Abstract Composition

Creator:: John Wells, 1907–2000
Date:: 1950
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 9/16 x 5 3/8in. (19.2 x 13.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

46. 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

47. Abstract Composition

Creator:: John Wells, 1907–2000
Date:: 1951
Materials & Techniques:: Relief print
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 8 11/16in. (30.5 x 22.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

48. 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

49. Drawing for Front Cover of "Rough Ride"

Creator:: David Tremlett, born 1945
Date:: 1985
Materials & Techniques:: 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

50. Back Cover of "Rough Ride"

Creator:: David Tremlett, born 1945
Date:: 1985
Materials & Techniques:: 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

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1. May 2-54 (prelude)

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3. Two Bottles and Glass

4. Still Life: Jug & Glass

5. Design for Omega Workshops Fabric

6. Design for an Embroidered Stool

7. Fall of the Leaf

8. Owl

9. Design for street decoration, Coronation 1953

10. Piano Recital

11. Abstract Composition

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15. Troubadors

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17. Six Studies

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21. Abstract Figure Study

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25. Study for "Reading from Torah"

26. Faim, Soif, Cris, Danse, Danse, Danse

27. Nimbus

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29. Illustration to "Beyond This Limit"

30. Illustration to "Beyond This Limit"

31. Illustration to "Beyond This Limit"

32. Illustration to "Beyond This Limit"

33. Reclining Figure

34. Figures in the Wind

35. Sunlight and Shadows

36. Landscape, Cornwall

37. The Shapes of Colour (Plate 2): Small Horizon with Orange, Lime, Lemon and Cherry. June 1957.

38. Glass 2 (From There)

39. Sheep at Tulliallan

40. Orpheus, study 6

41. Picasso's Meninas

42. Dulles (Capital) Portfolio

43. Red and Blue

44. Untitled [Rose]

45. Abstract Composition

46. Porthleven, 1922

47. Abstract Composition

48. Drawing for Page 8 of "Rough Ride"

49. Drawing for Front Cover of "Rough Ride"

50. Back Cover of "Rough Ride"