Date: 1956 / Period: 20th century - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

1. 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

2. Abstract in Brown, White, Black and Ochre

Creator:: Victor Pasmore, 1908–1998
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Paper collage on board
Dimensions:: 20 1/2 x 75 inches (52.1 x 190.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Presented by the artist from his retrospective exhibition at the Yale Center in November 1988
On View:: Not on view

3. Jean on a Step-Ladder in the Kitchen

Creator:: John Bratby, 1928–1992
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on masonite
Dimensions:: 47 x 52 inches (119.4 x 132.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert P. Bunkin and Florence Exler in memory of Leon K. Baum
On View:: Not on view

4. 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

5. Sands at Lytham

Creator:: L. S. Lowry, 1887–1976
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 7 3/4 x 12 inches (19.7 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Regan Pritzker
On View:: Not on view

6. Mother and Child Bathing

Creator:: Michael Ayrton, 1921–1975
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Bronze
Dimensions:: Overall: 31 1/4 inches (79.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nicholas Pritzker
On View:: Not on view

7. Little Warrior

Creator:: Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, 1924–2005
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Bronze
Dimensions:: Overall: 8 3/4 inches (22.2 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

8. Corner Boy

Creator:: Sir Anthony Caro, 1924–2013
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Bronze
Dimensions:: Overall: 11 1/4 inches (28.6 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

9. The Lovers

Creator:: Sir Anthony Caro, 1924–2013
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Bronze
Dimensions:: Overall: 9 1/2 inches (24.1 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

10. Horse and Factory

Creator:: Michael Rothenstein, 1908–1993
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/4 x 20 1/4in. (40 x 51.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mrs. Michael Rothenstein

11. The Owl II

Creator:: Michael Rothenstein, 1908–1993
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Color linocut, stencil, relief green, blue-purple, cream, black, brown, gray ink
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 x 19 1/4in. (63.5 x 48.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mrs. Michael Rothenstein

12. Shell Guide to Nottinghamshire

Creator:: David Gentleman, born 1930
Date:: ca. 1961
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 1/2 x 20 inches (74.9 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965

13. Natural History Museum

Creator:: Edwin Tatum, active 1956
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Chromolithograph
Dimensions:: Sheet: 39 7/8 x 25 inches (101.3 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965

14. Epping / Richmond / Whipsnade / Windsor

Creator:: Joan Beales, born 1926
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Chromolithograph
Dimensions:: Sheet: 40 x 24 15/16 inches (101.6 x 63.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965

15. Visitor's London

Creator:: David Gentleman, born 1930
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Chromolithograph
Dimensions:: Sheet: 39 7/8 x 49 3/4 inches (101.3 x 126.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965

16. Cassiobury Park / Hatfield House / Hampton Court / St. Albans

Creator:: Joan Beales, born 1926
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Chromolithograph
Dimensions:: Sheet: 40 x 25 inches (101.6 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965

17. Poster for "Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism" exhibition, Tate Gallery, London, 6 July - 19 August, 1956

Creator:: Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on medium, smooth wove paper mounted on thick card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 7/8 x 19 5/8 inches (75.9 x 49.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection

18. London

Creator:: Bruce Davidson, born 1933
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Gelatin silver print on moderately thick, semi-gioss photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 14 inches (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

19. Aneurin Bevan, Trafalgar Square

Creator:: Lewis Morley, 1925–2013
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Gelatin silver print on resin-coated photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 10 inches (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy

20. Untitled (Study for Painting)

Creator:: John Golding, 1929–2012
Date:: ca. 1961
Materials & Techniques:: Charcoal and pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 × 10 1/4 inches (35 × 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the John Golding Artistic Trust, 2017

21. Tail of the Whale, Stuben Glass, 1958

Creator:: Constance Stuart Larrabee, 1914–2000
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Gelatin silver print on moderately thick, semigloss photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. Arthur Miller

Creator:: Jane Bown, 1925–2014
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Vintage gelatin silver print on photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 4 7/8 inches (16.5 × 12.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of The Hyman Collection, London (Claire and James Hyman)

23. The Galloping Major, The Cottesmore

Creator:: Charles Johnson Payne "Snaffles", 1884–1967
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, black chalk, graphite, gouache and white gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 × 11 3/4 inches (39.7 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Amid the Groves Under the Shadowy Hills

Creator:: Barnett Freedman, 1901–1958
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph
Dimensions:: Sheet: 40 x 25 inches (101.6 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965

25. Verulamium: Careless Centurion from Gaul

Creator:: John Bainbridge, 1920–1978
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph
Dimensions:: Sheet: 40 x 25 inches (101.6 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965

26. The Tower of London

Creator:: Hans Unger, 1915–1975
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph
Dimensions:: Sheet: 39 7/8 x 24 15/16 inches (101.3 x 63.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965

27. Country Walks: Spring

Creator:: Hans Unger, 1915–1975
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph
Dimensions:: Sheet: 39 15/16 x 24 15/16 inches (101.4 x 63.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965

28. Lawrence Alloway at Guntsfield, Ditchling, Sussex

Creator:: Sylvia Sleigh, 1916–2010
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on thin, slightly textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 12 inches (24.1 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Joseph F. McCrindle Endowment

29. From the Third programme : a ten-years' anthology : imagination, argument, experience, exposition / edited by John Morris.

Date:: 1956
Physical Description:: x, 339, [3] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. John Hultberg : new paintings.

Date:: [1956]
Physical Description:: 4 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Aurora at Oakbrook, 1956.

Creator:: Knox, Seymour H., 1898–1990
Date:: 1956
Physical Description:: 28 p. illus. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Mathieu : Institute of Contemporary Arts : 17-18 Dover Street London, July 4th to August 11th 1956.

Date:: [1956]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet [4] pages : illustrations ; 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. This is tomorrow.

Creator:: Whitechapel Art Gallery
Date:: [1956]
Physical Description:: ca. 250 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Roberto Burle Marx : Brazilian landscape and garden design.

Date:: [1956]
Physical Description:: 3 leaves : 25-33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. La vénerie de Twiti : le plus ancien traité de chasse écrit en Angleterre. La version anglaise du même traité et Craft of venery / Publieś par Gunnar Tilander.

Creator:: Twiti, William, -1328
Date:: 1956
Physical Description:: 100 p. : ill. (ports., facsim.) ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Contemporary Venetian artists : an exhibition of paintings, sculpture, drawings and mosaics : 30 May-30 June, 1956.

Date:: [1956]
Physical Description:: 20 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. American cartoons : an exhibition prepared by the American Federation of Arts.

Date:: [London] :
Physical Description:: 17 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. The four seasons / lan Reynolds.

Creator:: Reynolds, Alan, 1926–2014
Date:: [1956?]
Physical Description:: [2] leaves, [4] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 45 x 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Susan G. and John W. Jackson, Yale BA 1967, in memory of Richard E. Gager.

39. Apollonius of Tyre : Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri / translated from the Latin by Paul Turner ; line-engravings by Mark Severin.

Date:: 1956
Physical Description:: 68 pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Huntsmen of a golden age: Stephen Goodall, 1857-1823; William Goodall, 1817-1859.

Creator:: Goodall, Daphne Machin
Date:: [1956]
Physical Description:: 181 p. illus.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. John McHale : collages.

Date:: 1956
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([6]) pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Ten years of English landscape painting, 1945-1955 : 5 January to 18 February, 1956, ICA.

Date:: [1956]
Physical Description:: 4 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Clothing Department diary.

Creator:: Churm, Eileen Elizabeth, 1911–2008
Date:: 1956-1967
Physical Description:: 1 volume ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. L'après-midi d'un faune / by Stephane Mallarme ; the translation by Aldous Huxley ; drawings by John Buckland Wright.

Creator:: Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842–1898
Date:: MCMLVI [1956]
Physical Description:: 10, [5] pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Britains soldiers : regiments of all nations : Pipes and Drums of the Scots Guards, no. 1722.

Creator:: Britains Ltd
Date:: ca. 1956
Physical Description:: 27 toy soldiers : hand-painted, die-cast lead ; each approximately 7 cm in height, in box 31 x 38 x 5 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Alec Van Sinderen

46. Grimms' other tales : a new selection / by Wilhelm Hansen ; translated & edited by Ruth Michaelis-Jena and Arthur Ratcliff ; illustrated with ten wood-engravings by Gwenda Morgan.

Date:: 1956
Physical Description:: 160 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Famous winners of the British turf, 1949-1955 : modern champions selected and described by the British racehorse / David Livingstone-Learmonth and John Hislop.

Creator:: Livingstone-Learmonth, David
Date:: 1956
Physical Description:: 159 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Minding my own business : an autobiography / Percy Muir.

Creator:: Muir, Percy H. (Percy Horace), 1894–1979
Date:: 1956
Physical Description:: [8], 224 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Willi Baumeister, paintings : an exhibition of Deutscher Kunstrat : February 23rd to April 7th 1956 : Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Date:: [1956]
Physical Description:: 16 unnumbered pages ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Of the world's great stallions / by Kent P. Hollingsworth.

Creator:: Hollingsworth, Kent
Date:: 1956
Physical Description:: [2], 5-82 p. : ill. ; 21 x 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. May Month, 1956

2. Abstract in Brown, White, Black and Ochre

3. Jean on a Step-Ladder in the Kitchen

4. Group of Dancing Figures

5. Sands at Lytham

6. Mother and Child Bathing

7. Little Warrior

8. Corner Boy

9. The Lovers

10. Horse and Factory

11. The Owl II

12. Shell Guide to Nottinghamshire

13. Natural History Museum

14. Epping / Richmond / Whipsnade / Windsor

15. Visitor's London

16. Cassiobury Park / Hatfield House / Hampton Court / St. Albans

17. Poster for "Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism" exhibition, Tate Gallery, London, 6 July - 19 August, 1956

18. London

19. Aneurin Bevan, Trafalgar Square

20. Untitled (Study for Painting)

21. Tail of the Whale, Stuben Glass, 1958

22. Arthur Miller

23. The Galloping Major, The Cottesmore

24. Amid the Groves Under the Shadowy Hills

25. Verulamium: Careless Centurion from Gaul

26. The Tower of London

27. Country Walks: Spring

28. Lawrence Alloway at Guntsfield, Ditchling, Sussex

29. From the Third programme : a ten-years' anthology : imagination, argument, experience, exposition / edited by John Morris.

30. John Hultberg : new paintings.

31. Aurora at Oakbrook, 1956.

32. Mathieu : Institute of Contemporary Arts : 17-18 Dover Street London, July 4th to August 11th 1956.

33. This is tomorrow.

34. Roberto Burle Marx : Brazilian landscape and garden design.

35. La vénerie de Twiti : le plus ancien traité de chasse écrit en Angleterre. La version anglaise du même traité et Craft of venery / Publieś par Gunnar Tilander.

36. Contemporary Venetian artists : an exhibition of paintings, sculpture, drawings and mosaics : 30 May-30 June, 1956.

37. American cartoons : an exhibition prepared by the American Federation of Arts.

38. The four seasons / lan Reynolds.

39. Apollonius of Tyre : Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri / translated from the Latin by Paul Turner ; line-engravings by Mark Severin.

40. Huntsmen of a golden age: Stephen Goodall, 1857-1823; William Goodall, 1817-1859.

41. John McHale : collages.

42. Ten years of English landscape painting, 1945-1955 : 5 January to 18 February, 1956, ICA.

43. Clothing Department diary.

44. L'après-midi d'un faune / by Stephane Mallarme ; the translation by Aldous Huxley ; drawings by John Buckland Wright.

45. Britains soldiers : regiments of all nations : Pipes and Drums of the Scots Guards, no. 1722.

46. Grimms' other tales : a new selection / by Wilhelm Hansen ; translated & edited by Ruth Michaelis-Jena and Arthur Ratcliff ; illustrated with ten wood-engravings by Gwenda Morgan.

47. Famous winners of the British turf, 1949-1955 : modern champions selected and described by the British racehorse / David Livingstone-Learmonth and John Hislop.

48. Minding my own business : an autobiography / Percy Muir.

49. Willi Baumeister, paintings : an exhibition of Deutscher Kunstrat : February 23rd to April 7th 1956 : Institute of Contemporary Arts.

50. Of the world's great stallions / by Kent P. Hollingsworth.