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Prints and Drawings 247
Paintings and Sculpture 46

Creator

Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri, 1891–1915 58
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 58
Gore, Spencer Frederick, 1878–1914 20
John, Gwen, 1876–1939 11
Blake, Peter, Sir, born 1932 10
Copley, John, 1875–1950 9
Rothenstein, William, Sir, 1872–1945 8
Austin, Robert, 1895–1973 7
Coplans, John, 1920–2003 6
John, Augustus Edwin, 1878–1961 5
Lewis, Wyndham, 1882–1957 5
Morley, Lewis, 1925–2013 5
Butler, Reg, 1913–1981 4
Golding, John, 1929–2012 4
Armitage, Kenneth, 1916–2002 3
Bevan, Robert, 1865–1925 3
Grant, Duncan, 1885–1978 3
Lamb, Henry, 1883–1960 3
Larrabee, Constance Stuart 3
Andrews, Michael, 1928–1995 2
Childers, Michael, born 1944 2
Davidson, Bruce, born 1933 2
Flint, W. Russell (William Russell), Sir, 1880–1969 2
Fry, Anthony, 1927–2016 2
Gill, Arthur Eric Rowton, 1882–1940 2
Kossoff, Leon, 1926–2019 2
Monnington, Thomas, Sir, 1902–1976 2
Paul, Celia, born 1959 2
Wood, Tom, born 1955 2
Atelier, Mme Besnier, Lisieux, active 1881 1

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 247
Not on view 44
On view 2

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 204
Free to Use 89

Image Available

available 263
unavailable 30

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 3

Classification

Drawings & Watercolors 142
Prints 83
Paintings 23
Sculptures 23
Photographs 20
Posters 2

Collective Title

Mother and Child Album 29
Studies for Decorations for the Cave of the Golden Calf 18
Morocco Bound Album 10
Studies from a Life Drawing Class 8
The Wrestlers 5
Side Show 4
A Collection of 14 Lithographs, 1952-54 3
Body of Work 1
England / Scotland 1960 1

Period

20th century 293

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 164
black ink 68
graphite 64
etching (printing process) 49
laid paper 34
aquatint 26
color printing 25
bronze 20
painting (technique) 20
oil paint 19
gelatin silver process 18
black chalk 17
roulette 17
watercolor 16
photographic paper 11
ink 10
drypoint 9
gouache 9
gray wash 9
screen printing 8
canvas 7
panel (wood) 7
pastel 7
board 6
crayon 6
pen 6
wood engraving (process) 6
lithography 5
red pencil 5
brown ink 4

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drawing 140
intaglio print 52
planographic print 24
painting 23
watercolor 23
sculpture 21
photograph 20
statuette 16
relief print 7
statue 3
poster 2
digital print 1
maquette 1

Genre

figure study 293

abstract art 87
portrait 37
genre subject 26
architectural subject 18
animal art 10
religious and mythological subject 4
landscape 3
sporting art 3
still life 3
military art 2
cartographic material 1
cityscape 1
marine art 1

Subject Terms

figure study 293

abstract art 79
Vorticism 60
figure 60
study (visual work) 52
woman 39
nude 38
portrait 33
genre subject 27
dance 23
man 23
design 22
cabaret 20
architectural subject 19
theater design 18
head 17
female 16
figures 16
figures (representations) 15
nightclub 14
women 14
child 13
men 13
hat 12
animal art 11
mother 9
nudes 9
sitting 9
boy 8
kneeling 8

Subject Period

Associated Places

England 23
United Kingdom 23
Europe 21
City of Westminster 20
London 20
The Cave of the Golden Calf 20
India 6
Greater London 2
Africa 1
Alderney 1
Brighton 1
Buxton 1
Dorset 1
East Sussex 1
Grezzana 1
Italy 1
Lesotho 1

Associated People

Orton, John Kingsley “Joe” (1933–1967), playwright 5
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 2
Austin, Robert Sargent (1895 - 1973), printmaker 1
Bell [née Stephen], Vanessa (1879–1961), painter 1
Blake, William (1757–1827), engraver, artist, and poet 1
Cassandra 1
Ceres, Roman deity 1
Christ 1
Harlequin 1
Jesus 1
Mary 1
Mary Magdalene 1
McNeill, Dorothy (Dorelia) (1881–1969), Partner and muse of Augustus John 1
Murry [née Beauchamp; other married name Bowden], Kathleen [known as Katherine Mansfield] (1888–1923), writer 1
Phryne (4th century BC), courtesan 1
Picasso, Pablo (1881–1973), Spanish painter, sculptor, and printmaker 1

Exhibition History

Drawings by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (Yale Center for British Art, 1987-02-04 - 1987-03-29) 58
Revisiting Traditions [BAC 20th century painting & sculpture] (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-04-30 - 2005-05-18) 12
20th Century Paintings and Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 11
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 10
20th Century Works on Paper (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 9
John Copley 1875-1950 (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-06 - 1990-04-01) 9
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 5
Into the Night : Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art (Barbican Art Gallery, 2019-10-04 - 2020-01-19) 5
Into the Night : Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art (Belvedere Museum, 2020-02-14 - 2020-06-01) 5
Figuring Women - The Female in Modern British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-03-28 - 2008-06-08) 4
Just what was it that made British Pop so different, so appealing? (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-01-26 - 2004-05-09) 4
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 3
Augustus John and Gwen John (National Museum Wales, 2005-02-12 - 2005-05-15) 2
Augustus John and Gwen John (Tate Britain, 2004-09-29 - 2005-01-09) 2
Bill Brandt | Henry Moore (Yale Center for British Art, 2022-11-17 - 2023-02-26) 2
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 2
Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-06-20 - 2019-09-08) 2
A Room of Their Own - The Artists of Bloomsbury in American Collections (Palmer Museum of Art, 2010-07-06 - 2010-09-26) 1
A Room of Their Own - The Artists of Bloomsbury in American Collections (Smith College Museum of Art, 2010-04-01 - 2010-06-15) 1
Bloomsbury Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-05-20 - 2000-09-03) 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

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 93
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mrs. and Mr. Jeffrey H. Loria, Yale BA 1962, in memory of Ruth and Walter Loria 26
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 19
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick Gore 14
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 9
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 8
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 7
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc. 6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lillian Heidenberg Reitman 6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Robert Anthoine 6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mrs. and Mr. Jeffrey H. Loria, Yale BA 1962, in memory of Harriet Loria Popowitz 6
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 6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jeffrey H. Loria, Yale BA 1962 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush & Kaller, LLP 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the John Golding Artistic Trust, 2017 4
Lent from a Private Collection 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965 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 Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 3
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Elizabeth S. Tower 2
Yale Center for British Art, Estate of Brian Sewell 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dorothy C. Weicker in honor and memory of her parents, Beatrice Trostel and Frederick E. Weicker, Yale BS 1931 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jeffrey H. Loria, Yale BA 1962, in memory of Henry Moore 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith and Norman A. Zlotsky, Yale BS 1953 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nicholas Pritzker 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist 2
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund and Partial Gift of Duncan Robinson 2
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Solomon A. Smith II, Solomon Byron Smith and Barbara Neff Smith Collection 1

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Accessible in the Study Room
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

Figures at Mass, Poland

ca. 1904
Augustus Edwin John, 1878–1961

Dorelia in the Garden at Alderney Manor, Dorset

ca. 1911
Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959

The Corporal of Horse

ca. 1927
Michael Andrews, 1928–1995

Study of a Head for Lights

1968
Anthony Fry, 1927–2016

Nudes

ca. 1962
Gwen John, 1876–1939

Study of a Nun

ca. 1915
On view
Leon Kossoff, 1926–2019

Fidelma III

1979
Leon Kossoff, 1926–2019

Seated Figure

1960
Frank Auerbach, 1931-2024

Seated Figure II

1961
On view
Francis Bacon, 1909–1992

Study of a Head

1952
Tom Wood, born 1955

Dreaming of Colours

1994
Tom Wood, born 1955

Dreaming of Shapes

1994
Euan Uglow, 1932–2000

Double Square

1999 to 2000
Michael Andrews, 1928–1995

Study of a Head with a White Hat

1967
Anthony Fry, 1927–2016

Group of Dancing Figures

ca. 1961

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