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Reference Library 23,290
Prints and Drawings 6,320
Rare Books and Manuscripts 4,045
Frames 675
Paintings and Sculpture 555

Creator

Unknown framemaker 643
Morley, Lewis, 1925–2013 392
Kenna, Michael, born 1953 364
The, Paragon Press 313
Vanity, Fair, 1868–1914 272
Hoyland, Francis, born 1930 271
Ward, Leslie Matthew ("Spy"), 1851–1922 220
Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur, 1876–1938 192
Hoppé, E. O. (Emil Otto), 1878–1972 176
Cameron, David Young, Sir, 1865–1945 166
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
Childers, Michael, born 1944 128
Larrabee, Constance Stuart 120
Unknown artist 120
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 119
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 109
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
Karl Baedeker (Firm) 82
Blake, William, 1757–1827 76
Hardie, Martin, 1875–1952 76
Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri, 1891–1915 73
Arts Council of Great Britain 71

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Reference Library 23,290
Accessible in the Study Room 10,365
Not on view 522
On view 33

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 33,750
Free to Use 1,022

Image Available

unavailable 29,323
available 5,449

Provenance

New Online Additions

2025 - 2026 13

Classification

Books 24,487
Prints 3,134
Photographs 1,806
Articles & Chapters 1,383
Drawings & Watercolors 929
Frames 675
Periodicals 504
Paintings 422
Posters 330
Brass Rubbings 163
Sculptures 132
Three-Dimensional Artifacts 132
Music (printed) 128
Postcards 114
Archives & Manuscripts 93
Drawings & Watercolors-Sketchbooks 93
Maps & Atlas (printed) 47
Videos 47
Computer Files 15
Visual Materials 14
Dissertations & Theses 11
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural 11
Musical Sound Recordings 6
Print-printing-plates 4
Models 2
Paint Boxes 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 32
The Queen Victoria Memorial Panels, Calcutta 31
Mother and Child Album 30
Studies for Decorations for the Cave of the Golden Calf 26
The Poethlyn Sketchbook 26
Enid Blyton's Old Testament Bible Plates 25
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
Lithographs by Contemporary Artists, Vol I 14
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

Period

20th century 34,772

19th century 355
21st century 173
18th century 101
17th century 28
16th century 14
15th century 7

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 2,335
gelatin silver process 1,430
photographic paper 1,222
etching (printing process) 1,160
laid paper 797
wood 655
gold leaf 542
patinating 532
drypoint 502
graphite 426
water gilding 417
painting (technique) 413
gouache 363
canvas 348
compo 341
oil paint 334
screen printing 302
toning (photography) 287
black chalk 279
watercolor 277
aquatint 242
black ink 219
white chalk 203
collage 184
tempera 182
wax crayon 165
rubbing 163
contact printing 154
xerography 144
lithography 142

Height [cm]

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Work Type

photograph 1,796
intaglio print 1,547
drawing 1,074
planographic print 775
frame 675
artists' book 481
photomechanical print 480
exhibition catalog 471
ephemera 469
relief print 437
painting 420
watercolor 353
poster 324
private press books (publishing) 314
wood engraving 292
collage 174
history 164
postcard 137
sculpture 131
auction catalogue 116
sheet music 116
digital print 113
catalog 104
memorial card 97
chromolithograph 95
statuette 92
auction catalog 91
exhibition catalogue 86
accordion fold format (binding) 79
advertisement 72

Genre

architectural subject 1,616
genre subject 1,131
landscape 1,116
portrait 1,095
abstract art 1,044
cityscape 448
figure study 370
religious and mythological subject 331
animal art 292
marine art 166
sporting art 153
still life 147
historical subject 102
botanical subject 73
military art 65
literary theme 44
cartographic material 25
anatomical study 2

Subject Terms

portrait 993
architectural subject 824
genre subject 677
abstract art 563
frame alteration: no alteration 532
Artists' books -- Great Britain. 515
landscape 447
Painting, European -- Catalogs. 320
frame status: Reproduction of non-period frame 307
figure study 304
trees 289
animal art 283
men 261
woman 259
Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (BAC,REF) 253
man 252
cityscape 249
Art, British -- Exhibitions. 230
Painting, British -- Catalogs. 230
frame cross-section: Concave 227
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. 226
Rare books -- Catalogs. 183
religious and mythological subject 181
Great Britain. 165
buildings 165
women 160
Art, Victorian -- Catalogs. 150
Blake, William, 1757–1827. 140
Painting, British -- Exhibitions. 140
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851. 138

Subject Period

20th century 1,565
19th century 1,343
18th century 618
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 4,007
England 3,617
London 1,089
London (England) 613
Europe 586
United Kingdom 479
Scotland 451
United States 337
Ireland 239
France 222
India 211
Italy 179
Wales 137
Australia 116
South Asia 108
Waltham Saint Lawrence 76
Greater London 63
England London 59
Edinburgh 58
Germany 58
Glasgow 52
Middle East 51
City of Westminster 45
Cambridge 43
New York (State) 43
Devon (England) 39
Netherlands 39
Oxford 39
Connecticut 37
New York 37

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
Jesus 44
Sickert, Walter, 1860–1942 44
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898 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
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901 33

Exhibition History

20th Century Works on Paper (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 82
Art for All - British Posters for Transport (The Wolfsonian Museum, 2011-04-15 - 2011-08-14) 81
Art for All - British Posters for Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-05-27 - 2010-08-15) 81
Art for All - British Posters for Transport (Musée de l'Imprimerie, 2010-10-13 - 2011-02-15) 78
20th Century Paintings and Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 72
Drawings by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (Yale Center for British Art, 1987-02-04 - 1987-03-29) 68
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 65
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) 58
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
The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29) 41
20th Century Works on Paper - Recent Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-11-01 - 2002-03-31) 37
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 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) 35
Taste & Beauty in Three Dimensions: Paul Mellon and British Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-10-23 - 2004-02-15) 32
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 30
Bloomsbury Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-05-20 - 2000-09-03) 29
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 - ) 27
John Copley 1875-1950 (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-06 - 1990-04-01) 25
Art in Focus : St Ives Abstraction (Yale Center for British Art, 2013-04-12 - 2013-09-29) 20
Figuring Women - The Female in Modern British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-03-28 - 2008-06-08) 19
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27) 19
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
Doomed Youth The Poetry and the Pity of World War I (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-06-22 - 1999-09-26) 16
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

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 856
Yale Center for British Art 692
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 618
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc. 616
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 477
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 351
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 271
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Michael H. LeWitt, Peter A. LeWitt, and Erwin Strasmick 220
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, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 166
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, 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 Daniel Bell 89
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 80
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara Sunderman Hoerner 56
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie 56
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 47
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mitchell Bobkin 47
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel Bell 42
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, Gift of Donald and Willi Holden 34
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD 34

Language

English 26,008
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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Bryan Wynter, 1915–1975

Two Menhirs

ca. 1950
John Bellany, 1942–2013

Conversation with Fate

1989
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

1930 (playing cards)

1930
On view
Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959

Gypsy Life – The Hop Pickers

1913
John McHale, 1922–1978

e.v.I

1958
John McHale, 1922–1978

Pink Eyes

1959
Graham Bell, 1910–1943

Thomasson Park, Bolton

1938
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

1951 (still life – sweet peas)

1951
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

1969 (2 circles in a stone block)

1969
Peter Biegel, 1913–1988

Hound Exercise

ca. 1950
Peter Biegel, 1913–1988

Over the Sawdust! South & West, Wilts. Point-to-Point

1953
Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959

Newmarket Start

ca. 1947
Frank Auerbach, 1931–2024

Seated Figure II

1961
On view
Francis Bacon, 1909–1992

Study of a Head

1952
David Bomberg, 1890–1957

Mountain Road near Platres, Cyprus

1948
John Bratby, 1928–1992

The Garden

between 1950 and 1990
John Bratby, 1928–1992

Self-Portrait in Missoni Cardigan with Patti in Red and Istanbul Mosque

1990
Harold Gilman, 1876–1919

Sylvia Darning

1917
On view
Roger Fry, 1866–1934

The Artist's Garden at Durbins, Guildford

ca. 1915
Bertha Herkomer, 1858–1943

The Book Worm

1915
Sir William Orpen, 1878–1931

Paul Mellon

1924
On view
Sir Stanley Spencer, 1891–1959

Winifred Augusta Frank (née Doherty)

1951
Paul Nash, 1889–1946

Souvenir of Florence

1929
Alfred Aaron Wolmark, 1877–1961

Young Woman in a Checkered Dress

ca. 1910
Stephen Buckley, born 1944

Concluding 8

1977
Ivon Hitchens, 1893–1979

Dark Forest

1962
John Golding, 1929–2012

1989 J. 11 (Ursus)

1989
Denis Wirth-Miller, 1915–2010

Marsh Landscape - Winter

1958
Anthony Fry, 1927–2016

Nudes

ca. 1962
William Ratcliffe, 1870–1955

Cottage Interior

1911 to 1912
Derwent Lees, 1884–1931

Tour Madeloc in the Pyrenees

ca. 1913
John Hoyland, 1934–2011

5.2.67

1967
John Wells, 1907–2000

May Month, 1956

1956
Robert Mason, born 1946

Working on Top

1989
Maggi Hambling, born 1945

Excavations at the Royal Mint

1985
Roger Fry, 1866–1934

Francis Birrell

ca. 1920
Nicholas Evans, 1907–2004

Changing of the Shift

1978
Michael Challenger, born 1939

Fort Blox, 1972

1972
John Wells, 1907–2000

No. 3, 1957

1957
John Minton, 1917–1957

Cornish Landscape

1946

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