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Andrews, Michael, 1928–1995 2
Fry, Anthony, 1927–2016 2
John, Gwen, 1876–1939 2
Kossoff, Leon, 1926–2019 2
Paul, Celia, born 1959 2
Wood, Tom, born 1955 2
Auerbach, Frank, 1931–2024 1
Bacon, Francis, 1909–1992 1
Furse, Roger, 1903–1972 1
Hepworth, Barbara, Dame, 1903–1975 1
John, Augustus Edwin, 1878–1961 1
Jones, Lucy, born 1955 1
Kirby, John, born 1949 1
Lowry, Laurence Stephen, 1887–1976 1
Munnings, Alfred J. (Alfred James), Sir, 1878–1959 1
Smith, Matthew, Arnold Bracy, Sir, 1879–1959 1
Uglow, Euan, 1932–2000 1
Unwin, Phoebe, born 1979 1
Vaughan, Keith, 1912–1977 1

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Not on view 23
On view 2

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Under Certain Circumstances 25

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available 25

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 3

Classification

Paintings 25

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Period

20th century 25

Materials & Techniques

painting (technique) 22
oil paint 20
canvas 8
panel (wood) 7
board 5
concrete 1
pencil 1
plywood 1

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painting 25

Genre

figure study 25

abstract art 3
portrait 3
animal art 1

Subject Terms

figure study 23
brushstrokes 6
woman 5
abstract art 4
hat 4
head 4
portrait 3
costume 2
figure 2
nude 2
profile 2
reclining 2
series 2
study (visual work) 2
women 2
Classical 1
Expressionist 1
Neo-Classical 1
animal art 1
anxiety 1
apron 1
apron (main garment) 1
architecture 1
arms 1
blue 1
book 1
dance 1
dancers 1
dark 1
distortion 1

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Associated Places

Alderney 1
Dorset 1
England 1
Europe 1
United Kingdom 1

Associated People

McNeill, Dorothy (Dorelia) (1881–1969), Partner and muse of Augustus John 1

Exhibition History

20th Century Paintings and Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 3
Figuring Women - The Female in Modern British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-03-28 - 2008-06-08) 2
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 2
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 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
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
Frank Auerbach (Royal Academy of Arts, 2001-09-15 - 2002-01-12) 1
In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03) 1
Juxtapositions (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-11-19 - 1998-01-04) 1
Leon Kossoff (Tate Britain, 1996-06-06 - 1996-09-01) 1
Munnings - Out in the Open (National Sporting Library and Museum, 2013-04-24 - 2013-09-15) 1
Painting Blind (The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 2015-02-11 - 2015-06-07) 1
Rachel Lambert Mellon’s collection of botanical artworks (The New York Botanical Garden, 2016-10-08 - 2017-02-15) 1
Reflections on a Life with Horses : Paintings by Sir Alfred Munnings from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-01 - 2008-04-01) 1

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush & Kaller, LLP 4
Lent from a Private Collection 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker 3
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
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, Paul Mellon Fund and Partial Gift of Duncan Robinson 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Beekman C. and Margaret H. Cannon 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Craig Jacobson 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dorothy C. Weicker in honor and memory of her parents, Beatrice Trostel and Frederick E. Weicker, Yale, Sheffield Scientific School, Class of 1931 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942 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 Oliver Radford, Yale BA 1982, in honor of his parents Roger and Jennifer Radford 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Regan Pritzker 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1

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Genre: figure study
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Augustus Edwin John, 1878–1961

Dorelia in the Garden at Alderney Manor, Dorset

ca. 1911
Roger Furse, 1903–1972

Untitled Abstract

1962
Dame Barbara Hepworth, 1903–1975

Two Figures

1951
Euan Uglow, 1932–2000

Double Square

1999 to 2000
Michael Andrews, 1928–1995

Study of a Head with a White Hat

1967
Michael Andrews, 1928–1995

Study of a Head for Lights

1968
Anthony Fry, 1927–2016

Group of Dancing Figures

ca. 1961
Gwen John, 1876–1939

Seated Woman in a Broad-Brimmed Hat

undated
L. S. Lowry, 1887–1976

Study - Figure

1954
Phoebe Unwin, born 1979

Portrait with Folded Arms

2009
Celia Paul, born 1959

Girlfriends

2000
Lucy Jones, born 1955

Untitled (White Dungarees on Blue Background)

1999
Celia Paul, born 1959

Annela

2000 to 2001
John Kirby, born 1949

Looking On

1999
Sir Matthew Smith, 1879–1959

Reclining Nude

1926

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