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Prints and Drawings 66
Paintings and Sculpture 24

Creator

Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri, 1891–1915 49
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 14
Butler, Reg, 1913–1981 5
Lewis, Wyndham, 1882–1957 5
Armitage, Kenneth, 1916–2002 2
Vaughan, Keith, 1912–1977 2
Ayrton, Michael, 1921–1975 1
Bacon, Francis, 1909–1992 1
Caulfield, Patrick, 1936–2005 1
Chadwick, Lynn, 1914–2003 1
Coplans, John, 1920–2003 1
Copley, John, 1875–1950 1
Dismorr, Jessica, 1885–1939 1
Fry, Anthony, 1927–2016 1
Furse, Roger, 1903–1972 1
Jones, Allen, born 1937 1
Paolozzi, Eduardo, Sir, 1924–2005 1
Turnbull, William, 1922–2012 1
Williams, Glynn, born 1939 1

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 66
Not on view 23
On view 1

Image Use

Free to Use 49
Under Certain Circumstances 41

Image Available

available 89
unavailable 1

Provenance

New Online Additions

Classification

Drawings & Watercolors 58
Sculptures 20
Prints 7
Paintings 4
Photographs 1

Collective Title

Morocco Bound Album 11
A Collection of 14 Lithographs, 1952-54 3
Body of Work 1

Period

20th century 90

Materials & Techniques

black ink 57
wove paper 49
bronze 17
laid paper 16
graphite 13
red pencil 5
canvas 4
oil paint 4
painting (technique) 4
watercolor 4
gouache 3
lithography 3
pen 3
black chalk 2
brown wash 2
colored pencil 2
crayon 2
gray wash 2
screen printing 2
Portland stone 1
chromolithography 1
etching (printing process) 1
gelatin silver print 1
lead 1
pens 1
printed paper 1
terracotta 1
white chalk 1

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drawing 57
sculpture 20
statuette 15
watercolor 7
planographic print 6
painting 4
intaglio print 1
maquette 1
photograph 1
statue 1

Genre

figure study 90

abstract art 88
portrait 2
animal art 1
architectural subject 1
military art 1
religious and mythological subject 1

Subject Terms

abstract art 90

figure study 79
figure 53
Vorticism 51
study (visual work) 23
dance 22
woman 8
child 7
mother 7
nude 7
female 6
figures 6
head 6
man 4
standing 4
chair 3
dark 3
design 3
fear 3
male 3
portrait 3
architectural subject 2
arms 2
black 2
bust 2
column (architectural element) 2
crouching 2
dancing 2
eyes 2
heads 2

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Associated People

Cassandra 1
Picasso, Pablo (1881–1973), Spanish painter, sculptor, and printmaker 1
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 1

Exhibition History

Drawings by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (Yale Center for British Art, 1987-02-04 - 1987-03-29) 49
Revisiting Traditions [BAC 20th century painting & sculpture] (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-04-30 - 2005-05-18) 11
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 8
20th Century Paintings and Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 7
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 2
Bill Brandt | Henry Moore (Yale Center for British Art, 2022-11-17 - 2023-02-26) 2
Figuring Women - The Female in Modern British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-03-28 - 2008-06-08) 2
20th Century Works on Paper (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 1
Eight Figurative Painters (Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1982-01-29 - 1982-03-28) 1
Eight Figurative Painters (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-10-14 - 1982-01-03) 1
Francis Bacon (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 2003-10-15 - 2004-01-18) 1
Francis Bacon - Paintings From The 1950s (Milwaukee Art Museum, 2007-01-29 - 2007-04-15) 1
Francis Bacon - Paintings From The 1950s (Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 2006-10-01 - 2006-12-10) 1
Francis Bacon - Portraits and Heads (Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2005-10-06 - 2006-01-28) 1
Francis Bacon - Portraits and Heads (National Galleries of Scotland, 2005-06-04 - 2005-09-04) 1
Francis Bacon 2000 Exhibition (Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, 2000-06-01 - 2000-08-31) 1
Francis Bacon : A Retrospective Exhibition (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1999-06-13 - 1999-08-02) 1
Francis Bacon : A Retrospective Exhibition (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1999-04-08 - 1999-05-27) 1
Francis Bacon : A Retrospective Exhibition (The Museum of Modern Art of Fort Worth, 1999-08-20 - 1999-10-15) 1
Francis Bacon : A Retrospective Exhibition (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-01-25 - 1999-03-21) 1
Francis Bacon [Japan 2013] (The National Museum of Modern Art, 2013-03-08 - 2013-05-26) 1
Francis Bacon [Japan 2013] (Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, 2013-06-04 - 2013-09-01) 1
Francis Bacon and the Masters: A Collaboration between the State Hermitage Museum and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 2015-04-18 - 2015-07-26) 1
Francis Bacon and the Masters: A Collaboration between the State Hermitage Museum and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (The State Hermitage Museum, 2014-12-06 - 2015-03-08) 1
Francis Bacon: The Beauty of Meat (Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, 2024-03-22 - 2024-07-28) 1
Henry Moore - The Mother and Child (Hofstra Museum, 1987-09-01 - 1988-04-17) 1
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 1
In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03) 1
John Copley 1875-1950 (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-06 - 1990-04-01) 1
Lynn Chadwick (Edwin Austin Abbey, 1998-01-22 - 1998-03-08) 1

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 54
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker 6
Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jeffrey H. Loria, Yale BA 1962 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jeffrey H. Loria, Yale BA 1962, in memory of Harriet Loria Popowitz 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mrs. and Mr. Jeffrey H. Loria, Yale BA 1962, in memory of Harriet Loria Popowitz 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nicholas Pritzker 3
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Solomon A. Smith II, Solomon Byron Smith and Barbara Neff Smith Collection 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Andrew C. Mayer, Yale Law School 1951 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara Sunderman Hoerner 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Beekman C. and Margaret H. Cannon 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen Carey 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gail and Michael Klebanoff in honor of Arthur M. Klebanoff, Yale BA 1969, and Susan J. Klebanoff, Yale BA 1974 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gregory F.W. Todd, Yale BA 1976, in memory of Joan Castle Sitwell 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Helena M. Segy 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jeffrey H. Loria, Yale BA 1962, in memory of Henry Moore 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mrs. and Mr. Jeffrey H. Loria, Yale BA 1962, in memory of Ruth Loria 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Renee & David McKee 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Block, Sr., class of 1936, and Mrs. Block 1

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Roger Furse, 1903–1972

Untitled Abstract

1962
Anthony Fry, 1927–2016

Group of Dancing Figures

ca. 1961
Keith Vaughan, 1912–1977

Warrior

1961
On view
Francis Bacon, 1909–1992

Study of a Head

1952
Accessible in the Study Room
Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957

Abstract Figure Study

1921
Henry Moore, 1898–1986

Egyptian Figures I

1978
Reg Butler, 1913–1981

Man

early 1960s
Kenneth Armitage, 1916–2002

Triarchy

1957
Accessible in the Study Room
Allen Jones, born 1937

Three in One

1971
Accessible in the Study Room
Henry Moore, 1898–1986

Reclining Figure

1939
Henry Moore, 1898–1986

Mother with Twins

1982
Glynn Williams, born 1939

"Stop"

1988
Henry Moore, 1898–1986

Interior Figure

between 1939 and 1940
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Henry Moore, 1898–1986

Seated Figure

1950
Accessible in the Study Room
Kenneth Armitage, 1916–2002

Woman with Head on One Side

1953

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