Period: 20th century / Image Available: Available / Work Type: watercolor / Subject Terms: abstract art

1. 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

2. 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

3. Aqueous Equinox

Creator:: John Tunnard, 1900–1971
Date:: 1944
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, black chalk, gouache, pen and black ink, and scratching out on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 × 22 1/8 inches (38.7 × 56.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

4. Battleship

Creator:: Peter Lanyon, 1918–1964
Date:: ca. 1944
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, moderately textured, white wove paper and medium, smooth, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/8 x 13 inches (41 x 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

5. Cliffs

Creator:: Paul Nash, 1889–1946
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 × 6 3/4 inches (25.1 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

6. Composition (Diptych), 1/1

Creator:: Print made by Oleg Kudryashov, born 1932
Date:: 1989
Materials & Techniques:: Drypoint, gouache, watercolor and graphite on Vélin d'Arches 300 gsm paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 40 × 28 inches (101.6 × 71.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Masterman, Culbert & Tully, LLP

7. Design for Omega Workshops Fabric

Creator:: Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961
Date:: 1913
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove graph paper
Dimensions:: Image: 21 × 16 inches (53.3 × 40.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

8. Design for street decoration, Coronation 1953

Creator:: Robin Ironside, 1912–1965
Date:: ca. 1953
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 12 3/4 inches (26.7 × 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

9. Faim, Soif, Cris, Danse, Danse, Danse

Creator:: Keith Vaughan, 1912–1977
Date:: 1949
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 6 1/2 inches (26.7 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

10. Female Nude and Horse

Creator:: Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957
Date:: ca. 1925
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 6 15/16 inches (22.6 x 17.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection

11. Four way

Creator:: John Tunnard, 1900–1971
Date:: 1967
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, black chalk and pastel on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (19.1 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker

12. Kermesse

Creator:: Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957
Date:: 1912
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, watercolor, pen and black ink, black wash and graphite on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 12 inches (30.2 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund and Gift of Neil F. and Ivan E. Phillips in memory of their mother, Mrs. Rosalie Phillips

13. Landscape, Cornwall

Creator:: Alan Reynolds, 1926–2014
Date:: 1958
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 16 11/16in. (27.9 x 42.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

14. Landscape, Corsica

Creator:: John Minton, 1917–1957
Date:: 1947
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and pen and gray-blue ink with wash, white wax crayon and pastel on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 19 1/2 inches (38.1 x 49.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

15. Listener

Creator:: Conroy Ronald Maddox, 1912–2005
Date:: 1953
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache on very thick, smooth, cream wove card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 14 1/2 inches (24.8 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lois Severini and Enrique Foster Gittes, Yale BA 1961

16. Nimbus

Creator:: John Tunnard, 1900–1971
Date:: 1960
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/8 x 22 inches (38.4 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Avery Thompson Funkhouser

17. Orpheus, study 6

Creator:: Bridget Riley, born 1931
Date:: 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache over graphite
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 3/16 × 38 1/8 inches (61.4 × 96.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Russell

18. Owl

Creator:: Print made by Graham Vivian Sutherland, 1903–1980
Date:: 1968
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with gouache, watercolor, ink, wash, charcoal, chalk pastel and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 3/4 x 19 9/16 inches (65.4 x 49.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. Piano Recital

Creator:: Ceri Richards, 1903–1971
Date:: 1943
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, pastel, scratching out and scraping out on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 × 22 1/2 inches (39.7 × 57.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

20. Porthleven, 1922

Creator:: Frederick Etchells, 1886–1973
Date:: 1922
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gouache, gum arabic and graphite on very thick, moderately textured, beige card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/16 × 18 5/8 inches (33.5 × 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. Reclining Figure

Creator:: Henry Moore, 1898–1986
Date:: 1939
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, white chalk, graphite, gray wash and crayon on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 30 3/4 x 35 1/2 x 3 inches (78.1 x 90.2 x 7.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jeffrey H. Loria, Yale BA 1962, in memory of Harriet Loria Popowitz

22. Red and Blue

Creator:: Bridget Riley, born 1931
Date:: October 1969
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and graphite on board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 39 1/2 × 26 1/2 inches (100.3 × 67.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Russell

23. Rodes Near Prades

Creator:: John Piper, 1903–1992
Date:: 1958
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, sharpie and acrylic on very thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches (36.2 x 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker

24. Rug Design

Creator:: Duncan Grant, 1885–1978
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 x 15 1/2 inches (20.3 x 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker

25. Smoking Hill

Creator:: John Tunnard, 1900–1971
Date:: 1949
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, brushed ink, gouache, chalk, and oil on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 x 22 3/8 inches (39.4 x 56.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

26. Souls Singing in the Evening

Creator:: Cecil Collins, 1908–1989
Date:: ca. 1933
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 28 3/4 × 21 3/8 inches (73 × 54.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

27. Standing Female Figure

Creator:: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891–1915
Date:: between 1910 and 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Brushed black ink, brown wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 7 1/8 inches (29.2 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

28. Study for "Reading from Torah"

Creator:: David Bomberg, 1890–1957
Date:: ca. 1914
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, watercolor and graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 12 7/8 inches (25.4 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

29. Study for a Sculptural Column

Creator:: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891–1915
Date:: between 1910 and 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Brushed black ink, brown wash, red colored pencil and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches (29.2 x 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

30. Sunlight and Shadows

Creator:: Edward Bawden, 1903–1989
Date:: 1936
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, graphite, pen and black ink, gray ink, brown ink, and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 x 22 3/8in. (46 x 56.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

31. Sunset

Creator:: Alan Reynolds, 1926–2014
Date:: 1957
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/16 × 13 1/4 inches (23 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. The Wall at Ashton Gifford (II)

Creator:: Keith Vaughan, 1912–1977
Date:: 1944
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 11 1/2 inches (22.9 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker

33. Troubadors

Creator:: William Roberts, 1895–1980
Date:: ca. 1919
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/16 × 13 1/4 inches (23 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

34. Two Abstract Figures

Creator:: Jessica Dismorr, 1885–1939
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black ink, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper on board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 × 11 inches (37.5 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection

35. Two Circles

Creator:: Dame Barbara Hepworth, 1903–1975
Date:: 1946
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gouache on lightly textured, white card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 18 1/4 inches (24.4 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Two Figures

Creator:: Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957
Date:: ca. 1912
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, pen and black ink, black chalk and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 9 5/8 inches (31.8 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection

37. Untitled

Creator:: John Walker, born 1939
Date:: 1968
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 3/4 × 34 inches (57.8 × 86.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia C. Jones

38. Untitled (Study for Painting)

Creator:: John Golding, 1929–2012
Date:: 1970
Materials & Techniques:: Collage and gouache on Fashion Plate Board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 × 21 1/4 inches (61 × 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the John Golding Artistic Trust, 2017

39. Woman with Head on One Side

Creator:: Kenneth Armitage, 1916–2002
Date:: 1953
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper mounted on cardboard
Dimensions:: Image: 22 x 14 3/4 inches (55.9 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker

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1. 1940 (composition)

2. Abstract Composition

3. Aqueous Equinox

4. Battleship

5. Cliffs

6. Composition (Diptych), 1/1

7. Design for Omega Workshops Fabric

8. Design for street decoration, Coronation 1953

9. Faim, Soif, Cris, Danse, Danse, Danse

10. Female Nude and Horse

11. Four way

12. Kermesse

13. Landscape, Cornwall

14. Landscape, Corsica

15. Listener

16. Nimbus

17. Orpheus, study 6

18. Owl

19. Piano Recital

20. Porthleven, 1922

21. Reclining Figure

22. Red and Blue

23. Rodes Near Prades

24. Rug Design

25. Smoking Hill

26. Souls Singing in the Evening

27. Standing Female Figure

28. Study for "Reading from Torah"

29. Study for a Sculptural Column

30. Sunlight and Shadows

31. Sunset

32. The Wall at Ashton Gifford (II)

33. Troubadors

34. Two Abstract Figures

35. Two Circles

36. Two Figures

37. Untitled

38. Untitled (Study for Painting)

39. Woman with Head on One Side