Period: 20th century / Genre: abstract art - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

1. "Capture"

Creator:: Ben Langlands, born 1955
Date:: 1999
Materials & Techniques:: Wood, lacquer, and steel
Dimensions:: Overall: 31 1/8 x 226 3/8 x 114 3/16 inches (79.1 x 575 x 290 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
On View:: Not on view

2. "Fly Away"

Creator:: Print made by John Hoyland, 1934–2011
Date:: 1981
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, aquatint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 x 30 inches (66 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift from the Collection of Richard & Susan Reece

3. "Opening"

Creator:: Ben Langlands, born 1955
Date:: 1999
Materials & Techniques:: Wood, lacquer, and steel
Dimensions:: Overall: 31 1/8 x 226 3/8 x 114 3/16 inches (79.1 x 575 x 290 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
On View:: Not on view

4. "Over Here, Over There"

Creator:: Robyn Denny, 1930–2014
Date:: 1982 to 1983
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:: 96 x 78 inches (243.8 x 198.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift from the Collection of Doreen Gehry Nelson
On View:: Not on view

5. "Stop"

Creator:: Glynn Williams, born 1939
Date:: 1988
Materials & Techniques:: Portland stone
Dimensions:: Overall: 15 3/4 x 6 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches (40 x 16.5 x 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Renee & David McKee
On View:: Not on view

6. 11/60

Creator:: John McHale, 1922–1978
Date:: ca. 1960
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and paper collage on canvas
Dimensions:: 59 7/8 x 39 7/8 inches (152.1 x 101.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Magda Cordell McHale
On View:: Not on view

7. 1929 (still life)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1929, reworked 1935
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and pencil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 1/2 x 32 1/2 inches (67.3 x 82.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. 1934 (still life)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1934
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and pencil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 1/4 x 15 inches (28.6 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. 1938 (composition)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1938
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache on board
Dimensions:: 19 5/8 x 26 3/4 inches (49.8 x 67.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. 1940 (composition)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: between 1940 and 1947
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and graphite on board
Dimensions:: Frame: 8 7/16 × 8 7/16 × 1 inches (21.5 × 21.5 × 2.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. 1951 (still life – sweet peas)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1951
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and oil on board
Dimensions:: 8 1/16 x 10 inches (20.5 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. 1969 (composition)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1969
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on masonite relief
Dimensions:: 24 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches (62.2 x 72.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Solomon A. Smith II, Solomon Byron Smith and Barbara Neff Smith Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. 1969 (winter blue)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1969
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on masonite relief
Dimensions:: 32 5/8 x 33 inches (82.9 x 83.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. 1989 J. 11 (Ursus)

Creator:: John Golding, 1929–2012
Date:: 1989
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic on cotton duck
Dimensions:: 64 x 88 inches (162.6 x 223.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Given by the Friends of British Art at Yale, 1989-90
On View:: Not on view

15. 5.2.67

Creator:: John Hoyland, 1934–2011
Date:: 1967
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic on cotton duck
Dimensions:: 72 x 120 inches (182.9 x 304.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

16. 8th Street Series #1

Creator:: John Hoyland, 1934–2011
Date:: 1978
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic
Dimensions:: Sheet: 30 x 32 inches (76.2 x 81.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie

17. [All through the day, 1970]

Creator:: Print made by Robyn Denny, 1930–2014
Date:: 1970
Materials & Techniques:: Screen print
Dimensions:: Frame: 29 3/4 x 31in. (75.5 x 78.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara and Max Wilk, Yale BA 1941

18. A

Creator:: Print made by Robyn Denny, 1930–2014
Date:: 1969
Materials & Techniques:: Screen print on medium, very smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 1/4 × 32 1/4 inches (74.3 × 81.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

19. A Logical Picture of Facts is a Thought. Tractatus 3. 21-22

Creator:: Print made by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, 1924–2005
Date:: 1995
Materials & Techniques:: Screen print on thick, moderately textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 13/16 x 22 1/16 inches (75.7 x 56 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Kasser / Mochary Family Foundation

20. A Monument in Rouen

Creator:: Hughie O'Donoghue, born 1953
Date:: 1997
Materials & Techniques:: Color carborundum print on 300gsm Somerset TP white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/2 x 23 3/4in. (49.5 x 60.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. A Pavilion for Parliament - Dish of Decisions (Diptych)

Creator:: Bruce McLean, Born 1944
Date:: 1998
Materials & Techniques:: Screen print on 400gsm Somerset Satin white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 × 35 inches (73.7 × 88.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. A Pavilion for Parliament - Dish of Decisions (Diptych)

Creator:: Bruce McLean, Born 1944
Date:: 1998
Materials & Techniques:: Screen print on 400gsm Somerset Satin white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 × 35 inches (73.7 × 88.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

23. A Photograph is a Quote Out of Context

Creator:: Bill Jay, 1940–2009
Date:: before 1992
Materials & Techniques:: Collage and black ink on medium, smooth, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 × 11 inches (21.6 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc.

24. A Road West

Creator:: Hughie O'Donoghue, born 1953
Date:: 1997
Materials & Techniques:: Color carborundum print on 300gsm Somerset TP white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 x 23 3/4in. (50.2 x 60.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

25. A Six-legged Tripdod, or Sextipod / A Living Tripod, or More Accurately in this Case, a Sextipod

Creator:: Bill Jay, 1940–2009
Date:: before 1992
Materials & Techniques:: Collage on medium, smooth, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 8 1/2 inches (27.9 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc.

26. Abstract

Creator:: John Havinden, 1908–1987
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gelatin silver print on thick, semigloss photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 12 inches (38.1 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen Carey

27. Abstract

Creator:: John Piper, 1903–1992
Date:: 1938
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on wove paper
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom, M.D.

28. Abstract Composition

Creator:: Gerald Wilde, 1905–1976
Date:: 1945
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 1/2 × 8 5/8 inches (26.7 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

29. Abstract Composition

Creator:: John Piper, 1903–1992
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/4 x 18 5/8in. (64.1 x 47.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

30. Abstract Composition with Collage

Creator:: John Walker, born 1939
Date:: 1970
Materials & Techniques:: Color photolithograph on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 27 × 39 1/4 inches (68.6 × 99.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

31. Abstract Figure Composition

Creator:: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891–1915
Date:: between 1910 and 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream machine-made laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 7 1/8 inches (22.9 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. Abstract Figure Study

Creator:: Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957
Date:: 1921
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with white gouache on medium, smooth, cream wove printed paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches (26.4 x 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

33. Abstract in Brown, White, Black and Ochre

Creator:: Victor Pasmore, 1908–1998
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Paper collage on board
Dimensions:: 20 1/2 x 75 inches (52.1 x 190.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Presented by the artist from his retrospective exhibition at the Yale Center in November 1988
On View:: Not on view

34. Academics

Creator:: Bill Jay, 1940–2009
Date:: before 1992
Materials & Techniques:: Collage on medium, smooth, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 8 1/2 inches (27.9 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc.

35. Ah! This Life Is So Everyday

Creator:: Patrick Caulfield, 1936–2005
Date:: 1973
Materials & Techniques:: Screen print on thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/4 × 13 3/4 inches (40 × 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara Sunderman Hoerner

36. Album

Creator:: Print made by Stephen Buckley, born 1944
Date:: 1981
Materials & Techniques:: Color lithograph and screen print with embossed plate mark; artist's proof on Arches white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 43 1/4 × 31 inches (109.9 × 78.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

37. Album of Twelve Blueprints

Creator:: John Banting, 1902–1972
Date:: 1931 to 1932
Materials & Techniques:: Cyanotypes on medium, smooth, white wove paper, mounted on medium, moderately textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 17 7/8 × 11 1/4 inches (45.4 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

38. Alhambra

Creator:: Print made by Sir Terry Frost, 1915–2003
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Color lithograph on Rives BFK white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 1/2 × 41 1/8 inches (74.9 × 104.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

39. An Ideal Home (Diptych)

Creator:: Bruce McLean, Born 1944
Date:: 1998
Materials & Techniques:: Screen print on 400gsm Velin Arches white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 35 × 29 inches (88.9 × 73.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

40. An Ideal Home (Diptych)

Creator:: Bruce McLean, Born 1944
Date:: 1998
Materials & Techniques:: Screen print on 400gsm Somerset Satin white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 35 × 29 inches (88.9 × 73.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

41. Anabatic Print

Creator:: Nicholas May, Born 1962
Date:: 1992
Materials & Techniques:: Screen print on 300gsm Somerset Satin white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 34 7/8 × 23 3/4 inches (88.6 × 60.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

42. Anemone 1

Creator:: Bill Jacklin, born 1943
Date:: 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, aquatint and drypoint on Rives BFK white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 5/8 × 19 5/8 inches (65.1 × 49.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mark Magowan in honor of Isabel Magowan, Yale MFA 2015

43. Anemone 2

Creator:: Bill Jacklin, born 1943
Date:: 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, aquatint and drypoint on Rives BFK white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 5/8 × 19 5/8 inches (65.1 × 49.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mark Magowan in honor of Isabel Magowan, Yale MFA 2015

44. Anemone 3

Creator:: Bill Jacklin, born 1943
Date:: 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, aquatint and drypoint on Rives BFK white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 5/8 × 19 5/8 inches (65.1 × 49.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mark Magowan in honor of Isabel Magowan, Yale MFA 2015

45. Anemone 4

Creator:: Bill Jacklin, born 1943
Date:: 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, aquatint and drypoint on Rives BFK white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 5/8 × 19 5/8 inches (65.1 × 49.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mark Magowan in honor of Isabel Magowan, Yale MFA 2015

46. Anemone 5

Creator:: Bill Jacklin, born 1943
Date:: 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, aquatint and drypoint on Rives BFK white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 5/8 × 19 5/8 inches (65.1 × 49.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mark Magowan in honor of Isabel Magowan, Yale MFA 2015

47. Anemone 6

Creator:: Bill Jacklin, born 1943
Date:: 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, aquatint and drypoint on Rives BFK white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 5/8 × 19 5/8 inches (65.1 × 49.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mark Magowan in honor of Isabel Magowan, Yale MFA 2015

48. Anemone 7

Creator:: Bill Jacklin, born 1943
Date:: 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, aquatint and drypoint on Rives BFK white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 5/8 × 19 5/8 inches (65.1 × 49.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mark Magowan in honor of Isabel Magowan, Yale MFA 2015

49. Apotheosis

Creator:: Sir Sidney Nolan, 1917–1992
Date:: 1953
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 36 x 48 inches (91.4 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
On View:: Not on view

50. April 1950 (goblets)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1950
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and pencil on wood
Dimensions:: Mount: 16 x 19 1/2 inches (40.6 x 49.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Louise P. Stanton
On View:: Not on view

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1. "Capture"

2. "Fly Away"

3. "Opening"

4. "Over Here, Over There"

5. "Stop"

6. 11/60

7. 1929 (still life)

8. 1934 (still life)

9. 1938 (composition)

10. 1940 (composition)

11. 1951 (still life – sweet peas)

12. 1969 (composition)

13. 1969 (winter blue)

14. 1989 J. 11 (Ursus)

15. 5.2.67

16. 8th Street Series #1

17. [All through the day, 1970]

18. A

19. A Logical Picture of Facts is a Thought. Tractatus 3. 21-22

20. A Monument in Rouen

21. A Pavilion for Parliament - Dish of Decisions (Diptych)

22. A Pavilion for Parliament - Dish of Decisions (Diptych)

23. A Photograph is a Quote Out of Context

24. A Road West

25. A Six-legged Tripdod, or Sextipod / A Living Tripod, or More Accurately in this Case, a Sextipod

26. Abstract

27. Abstract

28. Abstract Composition

29. Abstract Composition

30. Abstract Composition with Collage

31. Abstract Figure Composition

32. Abstract Figure Study

33. Abstract in Brown, White, Black and Ochre

34. Academics

35. Ah! This Life Is So Everyday

36. Album

37. Album of Twelve Blueprints

38. Alhambra

39. An Ideal Home (Diptych)

40. An Ideal Home (Diptych)

41. Anabatic Print

42. Anemone 1

43. Anemone 2

44. Anemone 3

45. Anemone 4

46. Anemone 5

47. Anemone 6

48. Anemone 7

49. Apotheosis

50. April 1950 (goblets)