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

1. 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

2. September 1960 (wood)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1960
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on plywood
Dimensions:: 13 x 16 15/16 inches (33 x 43 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. May 64 (Kepler)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1964
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and wash on board
Dimensions:: 21 1/4 x 19 3/8 inches (54 x 49.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. 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

5. Jan 20 1948 (still life, Newlyn)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1948
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas, laid on board
Dimensions:: 31 3/4 x 20 1/4 inches (80.6 x 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. 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

7. 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

8. February 1957 (brown and grey)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1957
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and graphite on panel
Dimensions:: 8 × 7 inches (20.3 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. 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

10. July 15 1949 (St Ives harbour)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1949
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and pencil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 7/8 x 15 7/8 inches (35.2 x 40.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. August 1963 (two mugs, one blue)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: August 1963
Materials & Techniques:: Relief painting
Dimensions:: 18 1/2 × 23 7/8 inches (47 × 60.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. May 1955 (Gwithian)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1955
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 3/4 x 41 3/4 inches (106 x 106 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. 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

14. February 1961 (Galileo)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1961
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and pencil on carved board
Dimensions:: 27 x 33 1/2 inches (68.6 x 85.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. 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

16. Work in Progress

Creator:: Stanley William Hayter, 1901–1988
Date:: 1936
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and casein on panel
Dimensions:: 66 3/4 x 39 1/2 inches (169.5 x 100.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
On View:: Not on view

17. Study of a Head

Creator:: Francis Bacon, 1909–1992
Date:: 1952
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 1/2 × 15 1/2 inches (49.5 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Beekman C. and Margaret H. Cannon
On View:: Not on view

18. Forecast

Creator:: John Tunnard, 1900–1971
Date:: 1945
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on gesso-prepared board
Dimensions:: 24 x 22 3/4 inches (61 x 57.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
On View:: Not on view

19. Mountain Road near Platres, Cyprus

Creator:: David Bomberg, 1890–1957
Date:: 1948
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 x 30in. (66 x 76.2cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
On View:: Not on view

20. Brilliant Corners

Creator:: Stephen Buckley, born 1944
Date:: 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 33 x 33 x 2in. (83.8 x 83.8 x 5.1cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia C. Jones
On View:: Not on view

21. 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

22. Mineral Objects

Creator:: Paul Nash, 1889–1946
Date:: 1935
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches (50.2 x 60.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

23. Passchendaele 1

Creator:: John Walker, born 1939
Date:: 1996
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 108 x 192 inches (274.3 x 487.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

24. Gynæcology Chair

Creator:: Julie Roberts, born 1963
Date:: 1994
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:: 60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

25. "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

26. The Garden

Creator:: John Bratby, 1928–1992
Date:: between 1950 and 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 47 5/8 x 35 1/2 inches (121 x 90.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Melville P. Roberts
On View:: Not on view

27. Design for Tiger Hunting Mural in the Cabaret Theatre Club

Creator:: Charles Ginner, 1878–1952
Date:: 1912
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and pencil on card
Dimensions:: 13 1/2 x 22 5/8 inches (34.3 x 57.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

28. Concluding 8

Creator:: Stephen Buckley, born 1944
Date:: 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Liquitex on canvas
Dimensions:: 80 x 69 inches (203.2 x 175.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara Gladstone
On View:: Not on view

29. Garden No. 1

Creator:: John Hubbard, 1931–2017
Date:: 1983
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: 43 x 45 inches (109.2 x 114.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Hubbard
On View:: Not on view

30. Three Cadmiums

Creator:: Patrick Heron, 1920–1999
Date:: 1966
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 60 x 72 inches (152.4 x 182.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

31. Marsh Landscape - Winter

Creator:: Denis Wirth-Miller, 1915–2010
Date:: 1958
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 7/8 x 35 7/8 inches (91.1 x 91.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
On View:: Not on view

32. Working on Top

Creator:: Robert Mason, born 1946
Date:: 1989
Materials & Techniques:: Charcoal and acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:: 66 x 40 inches (167.6 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Acquired through the generosity of the Artist and Rosehaugh Stanhope, plc.
On View:: Not on view

33. Design for Deer Hunting Mural in the Cabaret Theatre Club

Creator:: Spencer Frederick Gore, 1878–1914
Date:: 1912
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and chalk on paper
Dimensions:: 11 x 24 inches (27.9 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

34. Souvenir of Florence

Creator:: Paul Nash, 1889–1946
Date:: 1929
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 x 17 1/4 inches (68.6 x 43.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

35. Dark Forest

Creator:: Ivon Hitchens, 1893–1979
Date:: 1962
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 x 52 inches (53.3 x 132.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

36. Dyadic Encounter

Creator:: Desmond Morris, born 1928
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 x 30 inches (50.8 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia and Nathan Shippee
On View:: Not on view

37. 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

38. 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

39. May Month, 1956

Creator:: John Wells, 1907–2000
Date:: 1956
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 60 x 29 15/16 inches (152.4 x 76 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
On View:: Not on view

40. 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

41. No. 3, 1957

Creator:: John Wells, 1907–2000
Date:: 1957
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 6 x 28 inches (15.2 x 71.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
On View:: Not on view

42. Penwith

Creator:: Peter Lanyon, 1918–1964
Date:: 1948
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 8 1/2 x 20 3/4 inches (21.6 x 52.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
On View:: Not on view

43. Fort Blox, 1972

Creator:: Michael Challenger, born 1939
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 x 60 inches (121.9 x 152.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Richard H. Ullman
On View:: Not on view

44. John MacLeod

Creator:: Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957
Date:: 1938
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 20 inches (76.2 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

45. Transformation of Red

Creator:: John Tunnard, 1900–1971
Date:: 1939
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 13 3/4 x 26 inches (34.9 x 66 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

46. The Painting of Janet Churchman

Creator:: John Bratby, 1928–1992
Date:: 1958
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on masonite
Dimensions:: 79 x 146 inches (200.7 x 370.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kathleen and Joseph D. Policano
On View:: Not on view

47. Tree of Life (Clair)

Creator:: Andrew Forge, 1923–2002
Date:: between 1987 and 1989
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 46 x 58 inches (116.8 x 147.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Given by the Artist
On View:: Not on view

48. Night Flowering

Creator:: John Wells, 1907–2000
Date:: 1957
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas board
Dimensions:: 11 7/16 x 8 7/8 inches (29.1 x 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
On View:: Not on view

49. Painting, Summer 1963

Creator:: Roger Hilton, 1911–1975
Date:: 1963
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 55 1/2 x 64 1/4 inches (141 x 163.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

50. June 1958

Creator:: John Wells, 1907–2000
Date:: 1958
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 12 5/8 x 10 5/8 inches (32.1 x 27 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
On View:: Not on view

51. Cornish Landscape

Creator:: John Minton, 1917–1957
Date:: 1946
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
On View:: Not on view

52. Abstract Landscape (Dark Fir Shoreham II Morning)

Creator:: Alan Reynolds, 1926–2014
Date:: ca. 1952
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 40 1/8 × 30 1/8 inches (101.9 × 76.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
On View:: Not on view

53. Thread

Creator:: Peter Nadin, born 1954
Date:: 1993
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 90 × 70 inches (228.6 × 177.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Given by the Friends of British Art at Yale
On View:: Not on view

54. Two Menhirs

Creator:: Bryan Wynter, 1915–1975
Date:: ca. 1950
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 15 3/8 x 14 3/4 inches (39.1 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
On View:: Not on view

55. Conversation with Fate

Creator:: John Bellany, 1942–2013
Date:: 1989
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 79 x 91 inches (200.7 x 231.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia and Morris Orden, New York
On View:: Not on view

56. Orange on Top

Creator:: Trevor Bell, 1930–2017
Date:: 1959
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 x 36 inches (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

57. Dancing Figures, No. 4

Creator:: Anthony Fry, 1927–2016
Date:: ca. 1957
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 x 18 inches (35.6 x 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
On View:: Not on view

58. Causeway

Creator:: Kit Barker, 1916–1988
Date:: 1962
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 10 x 20 inches (25.4 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Florence and Maynard Mack
On View:: Not on view

59. 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

60. Seeding in Winter

Creator:: Alan Reynolds, 1926–2014
Date:: 1953
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 19 3/4 x 24 inches (50.2 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
On View:: Not on view

61. Painting on Red

Creator:: John Wells, 1907–2000
Date:: 1947
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 14 x 10 inches (35.6 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
On View:: Not on view

62. Red Circle

Creator:: Sandra Blow, 1925–2006
Date:: 1960
Materials & Techniques:: Mixed media on board
Dimensions:: 54 x 48 inches (137.2 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Professor Carl Djerassi in homage to Diane Wood Middlebrook, Yale PhD 1968
On View:: Not on view

63. e.v.I

Creator:: John McHale, 1922–1978
Date:: 1958
Materials & Techniques:: Paper collage mounted on masonite board
Dimensions:: 47 7/8 x 43 3/8 inches (121.6 x 110.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Magda Cordell McHale
On View:: Not on view

64. Pink Eyes

Creator:: John McHale, 1922–1978
Date:: 1959
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and paper collage on canvas
Dimensions:: 60 x 40 inches (152.4 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Magda Cordell McHale
On View:: Not on view

65. Key Ring

Creator:: Richard Smith, 1931–2016
Date:: ca. 1985
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas with metal supports
Dimensions:: 78 × 81 inches (198.1 × 205.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Monique Goldstrom - Giamfranco Caiazzo Family
On View:: Not on view

66. Crown

Creator:: Bernard Cohen, born 1933
Date:: 1964
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 x 36 inches (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Terrence D. Curley in Memory of Olga M. Waisanen
On View:: Not on view

67. Hannah's Blues, 1976

Creator:: John Walker, born 1939
Date:: 1976
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic, chalk, gel on canvas
Dimensions:: 96 x 72 inches (243.8 x 182.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Gifford Phillips, Yale BA 1942
On View:: Not on view

68. Eagles are Attracted by Disaster

Creator:: Steven Campbell, 1953–2007
Date:: 1983
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 111 x 108 inches (281.9 x 274.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of William S. Lieberman, transfer from the Harvard Art Museums
On View:: Not on view

69. K37

Creator:: Rebecca Salter, born 1955
Date:: 1996
Materials & Techniques:: Mixed media on canvas
Dimensions:: Overall: 72 × 96 inches (182.9 × 243.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund and Gift of Jules David Prown, Yale MA (HON.) 1971, in memory of Louis I. Kahn
On View:: Not on view

70. Wine Bar

Creator:: Patrick Caulfield, 1936–2005
Date:: 1983
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:: 72 x 84 inches (182.9 x 213.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie in honor of Amy Meyers
On View:: Not on view

71. Red Snake 13.9.89

Creator:: John Hoyland, 1934–2011
Date:: 1989
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic on cotton duck
Dimensions:: 30 x 28 inches (76.2 x 71.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie
On View:: Not on view

72. Shine 8.3.83

Creator:: John Hoyland, 1934–2011
Date:: 1983
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic on cotton duck
Dimensions:: 18 x 18 inches (45.7 x 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie
On View:: Not on view

73. Lush Life 28.3.95

Creator:: John Hoyland, 1934–2011
Date:: 1995
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic on cotton duck
Dimensions:: 30 x 23 7/8 inches (76.2 x 60.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie
On View:: Not on view

74. Different Realm, 6/16/96

Creator:: John Hoyland, 1934–2011
Date:: 1996
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:: 10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie
On View:: Not on view

75. Sweet Valley 20.6.96

Creator:: John Hoyland, 1934–2011
Date:: 1996
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:: 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie
On View:: Not on view

76. Solitary Wizard 6.5.97

Creator:: John Hoyland, 1934–2011
Date:: 1997
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 x 16 inches (61 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie
On View:: Not on view

77. Tree Talk 11.5.97

Creator:: John Hoyland, 1934–2011
Date:: 5/11/1997
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:: 10 x 5 inches (25.4 x 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie
On View:: Not on view

78. Celebration 16.6.97

Creator:: John Hoyland, 1934–2011
Date:: 1997
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 x 16 inches (61 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie
On View:: Not on view

79. Devil's Chair, 6/18/97

Creator:: John Hoyland, 1934–2011
Date:: 1997
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 x 16 inches (61 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie
On View:: Not on view

80. WEJ (After Auerbach)

Creator:: R. B. Kitaj, 1932–2007
Date:: 1991
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and charcoal on canvas
Dimensions:: 60 x 39 1/2 inches (152.4 x 100.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the R. B. Kitaj Estate
On View:: Not on view

81. Devilaya 28.12.77

Creator:: John Hoyland, 1934–2011
Date:: 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic on cotton duck
Dimensions:: 96 x 90 inches (243.8 x 228.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie
On View:: Not on view

82. Maverick Days 20.1.83

Creator:: John Hoyland, 1934–2011
Date:: 1983
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:: 90 x 84 inches (228.6 x 213.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie
On View:: Not on view

83. Tiger Walk 3.4.81

Creator:: John Hoyland, 1934–2011
Date:: 1981
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic on cotton duck
Dimensions:: 90 x 96 inches (228.6 x 243.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie
On View:: Not on view

84. Many Rivers 16.7.91

Creator:: John Hoyland, 1934–2011
Date:: 1991
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic on cotton duck
Dimensions:: 70 x 60 inches (177.8 x 152.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie
On View:: Not on view

85. The Full Mad Moon 27.2.90

Creator:: John Hoyland, 1934–2011
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic on cotton duck
Dimensions:: 100 x 93 1/8 inches (254 x 236.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie
On View:: Not on view

86. In Memoriam: Rupert Brooke

Creator:: Duncan Grant, 1885–1978
Date:: 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and collage on panel
Dimensions:: 21 9/16 x 11 3/4 inches (54.8 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

87. Flighted Ones

Creator:: Gillian Ayres, 1930–2018
Date:: 1995
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 96 1/16 x 84 inches (244 x 213.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

88. Landscape No. 326

Creator:: John Virtue, born 1947
Date:: between 1996 and 1997
Materials & Techniques:: Ink, acrylic, and shellac on canvas
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

89. Exposed Arm

Creator:: Tony Bevan, born 1951
Date:: 1987
Materials & Techniques:: Pigment and acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:: 87 1/2 x 62 inches (222.3 x 157.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Natalie H. and George T. Lee Jr., Yale BA 1957, in honor of Patrick McCaughey
On View:: Not on view

90. Dark Space

Creator:: Ivon Hitchens, 1893–1979
Date:: 1967
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 1/2 × 52 inches (59.7 × 132.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joanna W. and Robert A. Martin, Class of 1954
On View:: Not on view

91. Linen Blue and Yellow

Creator:: Sir Terry Frost, 1915–2003
Date:: 1961
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and collage on canvas
Dimensions:: 76 x 48 inches (193 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Purchased with contributions from the following Friends of British Art: Joan and Bugs Baer; Louise and David G. Carter; Lee MacCormick Edwards; Christopher Forbes; Alison P. Henning; Rose and Larry Hughes; Gale and Bernard Kosto; Elaine and Melvin Merians; Claire and Millard Pryor; Alison and Ross D. Siragusa, Jr.; Ira Spanierman; Liz and Bill Tower; George Weiss; Nicolette Wernick; Miriam M. and Charles O. Wood, III
On View:: Not on view

92. Delicious Morsel for the Crocodile

Creator:: Alan Davie, 1920–2014
Date:: 1963
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 x 60 inches (121.9 x 152.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Judith Rothschild Foundation in memory of Janet Cowan Bosse
On View:: Not on view

93. Multi-Colored Dots on a Gray Ground

Creator:: Jas Wood, 1889–1975
Date:: mid-1920s
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 9/16 x 16 9/16 inches (42.1 x 42.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Iola S. Haverstick Fund
On View:: Not on view

94. Cookie Cutter

Creator:: Richard Smith, 1931–2016
Date:: 1966
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 30 inches (76.2 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Harvey M. Wagner and Ruth Glesby Wagner
On View:: Not on view

95. Twin Form

Creator:: William Gear, 1915–1997
Date:: 1964
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 28 inches (101.6 x 71.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nicholas Pritzker
On View:: Not on view

96. The Yellow Phantom, Harold William

Creator:: Alan Davie, 1920–2014
Date:: between 1957 and 1958
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on masonite
Dimensions:: 48 x 71 3/4 inches (121.9 x 182.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker
On View:: Not on view

97. Group of Dancing Figures

Creator:: Anthony Fry, 1927–2016
Date:: ca. 1961
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 28 3/4 x 36 3/4 inches (73 x 93.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker
On View:: Not on view

98. Coastal Watcher

Creator:: David Holt, 1928–2014
Date:: 1963
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 33 x 43 inches (83.8 x 109.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker
On View:: Not on view

99. Evening

Creator:: Albert Houthuesen, 1903–1979
Date:: 1965
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas board
Dimensions:: Frame: 25 1/2 x 29 1/2 inches (64.8 x 74.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker
On View:: Not on view

100. Arizona Landscape

Creator:: Henry Inlander, 1925–1983
Date:: 1962
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 x 44 inches (99.1 x 111.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker
On View:: Not on view

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