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Reference Library 23,261
Prints and Drawings 5,395
Rare Books and Manuscripts 4,001
Frames 659
Paintings and Sculpture 515

Creator

Unknown framemaker 627
Morley, Lewis, 1925–2013 392
Kenna, Michael, born 1953 364
The, Paragon Press 313
Hoyland, Francis, born 1930 271
Hoppé, E. O. (Emil Otto), 1878–1972 176
Rich, Townsend, 1909–1998 164
Davidson, Bruce, born 1933 158
Sotheby's Belgravia (Firm) 150
Jay, Bill, 1940–2009 145
Victoria and Albert Museum 144
Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur, 1876–1938 140
Childers, Michael, born 1944 128
Larrabee, Constance Stuart 120
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 119
Currie, Ken, born 1960 101
King, Simon, born 1951 98
London, Transport, 1937–2004 90
Chapman, Dinos, born 1962 87
Chapman, Jake, born 1966 87
Unknown artist 84
Karl Baedeker (Firm) 82
Arts Council of Great Britain 71
Munnings, Alfred J. (Alfred James), Sir, 1878–1959 70
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) 69
Blake, William, 1757–1827 68
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 64
Ward, Lock & Co 64
Hoyland, John, 1934–2011 63
Tate Gallery 63

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Reference Library 23,261
Accessible in the Study Room 9,396
Not on view 491
On view 24

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 33,718

Image Available

unavailable 29,129
available 4,589

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 25

Classification

Books 24,436
Prints 2,408
Photographs 1,790
Articles & Chapters 1,383
Drawings & Watercolors 770
Frames 659
Periodicals 503
Paintings 382
Posters 313
Brass Rubbings 163
Sculptures 131
Music (printed) 127
Three-Dimensional Artifacts 126
Postcards 111
Archives & Manuscripts 93
Drawings & Watercolors-Sketchbooks 92
Videos 47
Maps & Atlas (printed) 46
Computer Files 15
Visual Materials 14
Dissertations & Theses 11
Musical Sound Recordings 6
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural 4
Models 2
Print-printing-plates 1
Rare Books 1

Collective Title

Scenes from the Life of Christ 180
Monumental Brass Rubbings 163
England / Scotland 1960 119
The Life of Christ 89
Jake and Dinos' Disasters of War 86
Fifty Etchings 51
Ratcliffe Power Station 41
Venetian Views 34
Teenage Balls 33
London 31
The Queen Victoria Memorial Panels, Calcutta 31
Mother and Child Album 30
The Poethlyn Sketchbook 26
A Rake's Progress 20
Walton's Compleat Angler 20
Yew 20
Bethany Squares 18
Kilometre Theatre and Seven Other Seminal Architectural Projects 18
As Is When 15
Vessel 14
12 Blueprints 13
Fourteen Works 1982 - 89 13
Ratcliffe Power Station Portfolio 13
Ratcliffe Power Station, Nottinghamshire, England 13
Stonehenge Portfolio 13
The Brushwork Series 13
Venice Set 13
Enclosure and Identity 12
Loop 12
Portraits 12

Period

20th century 33,718

19th century 354
21st century 173
18th century 100
17th century 28
16th century 14
15th century 7

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 2,071
gelatin silver process 1,423
photographic paper 1,221
etching (printing process) 866
wood 639
laid paper 598
gold leaf 528
patinating 519
water gilding 409
painting (technique) 373
gouache 354
graphite 354
drypoint 338
compo 337
canvas 312
screen printing 302
oil paint 296
toning (photography) 286
black chalk 243
watercolor 241
aquatint 222
white chalk 199
collage 184
tempera 182
wax crayon 165
rubbing 163
contact printing 154
black ink 151
xerography 144
lithography 125

Height [cm]

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Work Type

photograph 1,778
intaglio print 1,212
drawing 912
planographic print 722
frame 659
artists' book 481
exhibition catalog 470
ephemera 442
photomechanical print 425
relief print 410
painting 380
watercolor 316
private press books (publishing) 314
poster 309
wood engraving 292
collage 174
history 153
postcard 133
sculpture 130
auction catalogue 116
sheet music 115
digital print 113
catalog 104
memorial card 93
chromolithograph 92
auction catalog 91
statuette 91
exhibition catalogue 85
accordion fold format (binding) 79
periodical 71

Genre

architectural subject 1,335
portrait 1,051
genre subject 1,001
abstract art 986
landscape 926
cityscape 385
religious and mythological subject 312
figure study 270
animal art 261
sporting art 141
marine art 128
still life 125
historical subject 75
botanical subject 73
military art 48
literary theme 35
cartographic material 25
anatomical study 2

Subject Terms

portrait 964
architectural subject 643
genre subject 586
frame alteration: no alteration 519
Artists' books -- Great Britain. 515
abstract art 506
landscape 354
Painting, European -- Catalogs. 320
frame status: Reproduction of non-period frame 299
Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (BAC,REF) 253
animal art 253
Art, British -- Exhibitions. 230
Painting, British -- Catalogs. 230
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. 226
frame cross-section: Concave 225
man 217
figure study 212
woman 208
cityscape 205
men 190
trees 185
Rare books -- Catalogs. 183
religious and mythological subject 175
Great Britain. 164
Art, Victorian -- Catalogs. 150
Blake, William, 1757–1827. 140
Painting, British -- Exhibitions. 140
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851. 138
Painting, Victorian -- Catalogs. 136
Art, Modern -- Exhibitions. 134

Subject Period

20th century 1,562
19th century 1,341
18th century 617
17th century 415
16th century 107
15th century 22
15th and 16th centuries 16
17th-18th centuries 16
11th century 7
12th century 5
14th century 4
18th-19th centuries 2
19th-20th centuries 2
21st century 2
Civil War, 49-45 B.C 2
Description and travel 2
Elizabeth II 2
10e siècle 1
13th century 1
16th-17th centuries 1
17th cenury 1
17th-18th century 1
17th-19th century 1
18e siècle 1
18th-19th century 1
18th-20th centuries 1
19th centuries 1
29th century 1
58 B.C.-511 A.D 1
Antiquity and middle ages 1

Associated Places

Great Britain 3,984
England 3,522
London 1,044
London (England) 589
Europe 511
Scotland 415
United Kingdom 370
United States 335
Ireland 235
France 204
India 203
Italy 167
Wales 135
Asia 130
Australia 116
Waltham Saint Lawrence 76
Germany 58
Edinburgh 55
Greater London 52
Middle East 51
New York (State) 43
Cambridge 41
Glasgow 40
Devon (England) 39
Netherlands 38
Oxford 38
South Asia 38
Connecticut 37
England London 37
Thames River (England) 36

Associated People

Blake, William, 1757–1827 296
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 251
Constable, John, 1776–1837 118
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 115
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 99
Mellon, Paul, 1907–1999 97
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 95
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 94
Morris, William, 1834–1896 84
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 77
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834–1903 76
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926– 63
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 59
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784 53
Kahn, Louis I., 1901–1974 52
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882 52
Bacon, Francis, 1909–1992 51
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888 50
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806 45
Hockney, David (born 1937), English painter, printmaker, and photographer 44
Sickert, Walter, 1860–1942 44
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898 43
Jesus 43
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 38
Palmer, Samuel, 1805–1881 37
Hockney, David, born 1937 35
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827 35
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 33
Fuseli, Henry, 1741–1825 33
Holbein, Hans, 1497–1543 32

Exhibition History

Art for All - British Posters for Transport (The Wolfsonian Museum, 2011-04-15 - 2011-08-14) 80
Art for All - British Posters for Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-05-27 - 2010-08-15) 80
Art for All - British Posters for Transport (Musée de l'Imprimerie, 2010-10-13 - 2011-02-15) 77
20th Century Works on Paper (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 74
20th Century Paintings and Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 62
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 60
Graphic! British Prints Now (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-08 - 1999-06-06) 59
Revisiting Traditions [BAC 20th century painting & sculpture] (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-04-30 - 2005-05-18) 51
Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-06-20 - 2019-09-08) 45
Just what was it that made British Pop so different, so appealing? (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-01-26 - 2004-05-09) 44
20th Century Works on Paper - Recent Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-11-01 - 2002-03-31) 37
The Independent Eye: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-09-16 - 2011-01-02) 34
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 33
Taste & Beauty in Three Dimensions: Paul Mellon and British Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-10-23 - 2004-02-15) 31
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30) 28
The Independent Eye: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie (Flowers Galleries, 2011-01-26 - ) 26
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 23
The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29) 22
Art in Focus : St Ives Abstraction (Yale Center for British Art, 2013-04-12 - 2013-09-29) 20
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27) 19
Bloomsbury Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-05-20 - 2000-09-03) 18
John Walker: The Carter Gift (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-06-22 - 1999-09-26) 18
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) 17
Recent Acquisitions - Summer 2005 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-05-19 - 2006-08-14) 17
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) 16
Art in Focus : Women at Yale (Yale Center for British Art, 2020-04-08 - 2020-08-30) 15
John Copley 1875-1950 (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-06 - 1990-04-01) 15
Figuring Women - The Female in Modern British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-03-28 - 2008-06-08) 14
Peterloo and Protest (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-08-16 - 2019-12-01) 12
Juxtapositions (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-11-19 - 1998-01-04) 11

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 724
Yale Center for British Art 662
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc. 612
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 478
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy 392
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965 334
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 332
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 267
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Monroe E. Price, Yale BA 1960, LLB 1965, and Aimee Brown Price, Yale MA 1963, PhD 1972 180
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Townsend Rich 163
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Graham Howe 154
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist 129
Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 107
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of The Hyman Collection, London (Claire and James Hyman) 97
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Monroe E. Price, Yale BA 1960, LLB 1965, and Aimee Brown Price, Yale MA 1963, PhD 1972, and Theodore C. and Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Yale MCP 1964 91
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Adelaide C. Roberts and Alexandra C. Dane 85
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields 83
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith and Norman A. Zlotsky, Yale BS 1953 66
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara Sunderman Hoerner 56
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie 55
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Daniel Bell 55
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker 50
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 37
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ralph and Nancy Segall 37
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Richard S. and Jeanne Press 37
Yale Center for British Art, Estate of Brian Sewell 33
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel Bell 33
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the John Golding Artistic Trust, 2017 33
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald and Willi Holden 32
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mitchell Bobkin 32

Language

English 25,935
German 284
French 283
Italian 88
Dutch 39
Spanish 32
Undetermined 31
Japanese 28
Russian 19
Welsh 17
Latin 15
Portuguese 7
Multiple languages 5
Polish 5
Swedish 5
Danish 4
Norwegian 3
Icelandic 2
Afrikaans 1
Efik 1
English, Middle (1100-1500) 1
English, Old (ca. 450-1100) 1
Greek, Modern (1453- ) 1
Hebrew 1
Korean 1
Scottish Gaelic 1

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Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

Jan 20 1948 (still life, Newlyn)

1948
On view
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

May 1955 (Gwithian)

1955
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

1969 (2 circles in a stone block)

1969
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

1947 (Mousehole, Cornwall)

1947
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

September 1960 (wood)

1960
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

May 64 (Kepler)

1964
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

1951 (still life – sweet peas)

1951
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

1930 (playing cards)

1930
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

August 1963 (two mugs, one blue)

August 1963
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

April 1950 (goblets)

1950
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

1938 (composition)

1938
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

February 1957 (brown and grey)

1957
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

February 1961 (Galileo)

1961
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

1934 (still life)

1934
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

July 15 1949 (St Ives harbour)

1949
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

1969 (winter blue)

1969
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

1929 (still life)

1929, reworked 1935
Accessible in the Study Room
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

May 2-54 (prelude)

ca. 1954
Accessible in the Study Room
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

Two Bottles and Glass

1967 (1973)
Accessible in the Study Room
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

Still Life: Jug & Glass

1948
Accessible in the Study Room
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

1940 (composition)

between 1940 and 1947
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Poodle

1977
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Turned Loose

1964
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Double Form

ca. 1970
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

The Racehorse Zanzibar with Pug Dog of the same

1962
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Mare and Foal

1980
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

El Rejoneador

1964
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Arab Stallion

1968
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Lucky Boy

1975
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Racing - Hanging to the Left

1975
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Ackermann-Skeaping Trophy

undated, between 1960 and 1980
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Turning to Go Down

1976
Accessible in the Study Room
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Sketch of a Base for the Mill Reef statue, 1972: Base with Statue

1972
Accessible in the Study Room
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Sketch of a Base for the Mill Reef Statue, 1972: Base Without Statue, End View

1972
Accessible in the Study Room
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Afghan Horsemen

1976
Accessible in the Study Room
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Mare and Foal

1976
Accessible in the Study Room
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Fighting Stallions

1976
Accessible in the Study Room
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Arab Horsemen, Two Grey Horses

1965
Accessible in the Study Room
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

One of Burch's

1974
Accessible in the Study Room
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Upsides
Accessible in the Study Room
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Double Handful
Accessible in the Study Room
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Ballet Dancer

1979
Accessible in the Study Room
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Ballet Dancer

1979
Accessible in the Study Room
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Key to the Mint

1974
Accessible in the Study Room
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Key to the Mint

1974
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Greyhound

1976
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Racing Greyhounds

1977
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Fort Marcy

1973
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Mill Reef

1973
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Foxhound

1971

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