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Reference Library 13,814
Prints and Drawings 962
Rare Books and Manuscripts 911
Paintings and Sculpture 51
Frames 3

Creator

Jay, Bill, 1940–2009 382
Sotheby's (Firm) 157
Christie, Manson & Woods 132
Selkirk, Neil, born 1947 125
Kenna, Michael, born 1953 56
Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc 50
Southam, Jem, born 1950 47
Bonhams (Firm : 2001) 46
Fraser, Peter, born 1953 46
Dixon, Jane, born 1963 45
Parker, Cornelia, 1956– 30
The, Paragon Press 30
Florio, Jason, born 1965 29
Riley, Bridget, born 1931 29
Bush, Tracey 28
Douglas, Helen, 1952– 28
Dilnot, John 24
Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette, born 1977 24
Hirst, Damien, born 1965 23
Hockney, David, born 1937 23
Rego, Paula, Dame, 1935–2022 23
Alan, Cristea Gallery 22
Emin, Tracey, born 1963 22
Ackroyd, Norman, 1938– 21
Fox, Anna, born 1961 21
Shaw, George, born 1966 21
Morpeth, Sarah 20
Lamont-Fisher, Pauline 19
Yale Center for British Art 19
Caro, Anthony, Sir, 1924–2013 18

Date

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To

On-site Access

Accessible in the Reference Library 13,814
Accessible in the Study Room 1,872
Not on view 48
On view 3
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery 1

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 15,725

Image Available

unavailable 14,954
available 771

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 187

Classification

Books 14,026
Photographs 736
Videos 212
Prints 181
Computer Files 138
Three-Dimensional Artifacts 104
Periodicals 89
Drawings & Watercolors 83
Paintings 31
Archives & Manuscripts 18
Sculptures 18
Articles & Chapters 15
Maps & Atlas (printed) 12
Dissertations & Theses 11
Postcards 10
Visual Materials 5
Frames 3
Nonmusical Sound Recordings 3
Musical Sound Recordings 2
Kits 1
Music (printed) 1
Posters 1

Collective Title

Photographers Photographed 301
Lobbyists 60
Snapshots 53
Nazraeli Monograph 42
Regeneration 41
The Painter's Pool 37
City Index 36
This Is Libya 28
Men Like Me 25
Thirty Pieces of Silver (Exposed) 22
Fly 20
Flora 17
Back to the Village 16
Ratcliffe Power Station 16
Jane Eyre Series 14
Twelve Short Walks 14
Nourishment 13
Jane Eyre, The Guardians 10
Portrait of A.D.(Tony) Nuttall 10
Creole Portraits III: “Bringing Down the Flowers” 6
Heraclitus III: 7 Days on the Colorado 6
The City of London Drawings 5
Quadra 1 - 4 4
The Camouflage Suite 4
Under False Colours 4
Between Visible and Invisible 3
Getting Ready for the Ball Triptych 3
High Summer 2
Shock and Awe 2
The Longue Durée 2

Period

21st century 15,725

20th century 183
19th century 24
18th century 5

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 565
ink jet printing 417
collage 330
photographic paper 329
mixed media 326
gelatin silver process 179
chromogenic processes 152
graphite 54
toning (photography) 52
etching (printing process) 48
rubbing 41
dye coupler processes 38
photogravure 38
graph paper 36
painting (technique) 28
lithography 20
Pigment printing 19
canvas 16
acrylic paint 15
color printing 14
oil paint 14
charcoal 13
watercolor 8
paper 7
screen printing 7
Mylar 6
drawings 6
gouache 6
panel (wood) 6
watercolors 6

Height [cm]

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Work Type

exhibition catalog 793
photograph 770
history 444
digital print 431
artists' book 418
auction catalog 239
catalog 173
criticism, interpretation, etc 173
accordion fold format (binding) 129
biographie 95
intaglio print 95
exhibition catalogue 91
cut-paper work 90
drawing 78
biography 74
pictorial work 67
photomechanical print 49
art 47
guidebook 39
interview 39
ephemera 33
illustrated work 33
wood engraving 33
planographic print 31
catalogues d'exposition 29
painting 28
botanical illustration 25
map 24
periodical 24
postcard 23

Genre

portrait 587
abstract art 188
architectural subject 145
landscape 145
genre subject 75
still life 70
cityscape 56
cartographic material 46
botanical subject 37
literary theme 15
figure study 12
military art 9
animal art 6
historical subject 2
religious and mythological subject 1
sporting art 1

Subject Terms

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Catalogs. 638
Rare books -- Catalogs. 463
Great Britain. 388
Art, British -- Catalogs. 375
Painting, British -- Catalogs. 354
portrait 352
Artists' books -- Great Britain. 335
Painting, European -- Catalogs. 313
Art auctions -- Catalogs. 285
Furniture -- Catalogs. 284
Decoration and ornament -- Catalogs. 224
Auction catalogs. 207
Silver -- Catalogs. 192
Art -- Catalogs. 182
Women in natural history. 162
Ceramics -- Catalogs. 157
Manuscripts -- Catalogs. 157
England. 154
Drawing, British -- Catalogs. 122
Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Catalogs. 122
Painting, Modern -- 19th century -- Catalogs. 117
Maps -- Catalogs. 110
Sculpture, European -- Catalogs. 97
Photography, Artistic. 95
Painting, Irish -- Catalogs. 89
abstract art 86
Art, European -- Catalogs. 85
Watercolor painting, British -- Catalogs. 85
Art, British. 80
England -- London. 80

Subject Period

20th century 1,971
19th century 1,086
18th century 563
21st century 343
17th century 197
16th century 124
15th century 11
17th-18th centuries 7
Geschichte 3
11th century 2
14th century 1
15th and 16th centuries 1
20th centuy 1
21th century 1
England 1
Great Britain 1
India 1
London 1
New York (State) 1
Republic, 265-30 B.C 1
South America 1
Spain 1

Associated Places

Great Britain 2,207
England 1,286
London 252
United States 213
London (England) 172
Europe 165
Scotland 155
Ireland 149
Australia 95
India 89
England London 82
Canada 50
France 50
Italy 46
Wales 43
Middle East 31
Edinburgh 28
New York 28
Connecticut 26
Germany 26
New York (State) 25
New Haven 24
California 19
Tripoli 19
Venice (Italy) 18
Bristol 17
Jamaica 17
Libya 16
Thames River (England) 16
Yorkshire 16

Associated People

Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 136
Kahn, Louis I., 1901–1974 72
Bacon, Francis, 1909–1992 70
Blake, William, 1757–1827 70
Constable, John, 1776–1837 59
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 59
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 48
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 48
Morris, William, 1834–1896 46
Freud, Lucian, 1922–2011 45
Hockney, David, born 1937 44
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 42
Riley, Bridget, born 1931 42
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834–1903 41
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 40
Caro, Anthony, Sir, 1924–2013 39
Hirst, Damien, born 1965 38
Emin, Tracey, born 1963 37
Mellon, Paul, 1907–1999 34
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 31
Hepworth, Barbara, Dame, 1903–1975 27
Gormley, Antony, Sir, born 1950 26
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806 25
Sickert, Walter, 1860–1942 24
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898 23
Hodgkin, Howard, Sir, 1932–2017 23
Rego, Paula, Dame, 1935–2022 23
Scully, Sean, 1945– 22
Craig–Martin, Michael, Sir, born 1941 20
Hamilton, Richard, 1922–2011 20

Exhibition History

"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) 50
Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-06-20 - 2019-09-08) 49
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 46
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-09-12 - 2020-12-15) 20
George Shaw : A Corner of a Foreign Field (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-10-04 - 2018-12-30) 15
Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19) 12
Tony Foster : Watercolor Diaries, Cornwall to Colorado (Yale Center for British Art, May 30, 2019-August 25, 2019) 6
Art in Focus : Women at Yale (Yale Center for British Art, 2020-04-08 - 2020-08-30) 5
Rebecca Salter (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-02-03 - 2011-05-01) 4
Eileen Hogan : Personal Geographies (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-05-09 - 2019-08-11) 3
20th Century Works on Paper - Recent Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-11-01 - 2002-03-31) 2
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11) 2
Deluge (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-12-18 - 2019-03-24) 2
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 2
Prospects of Empire : Slavery and Ecology in Eighteenth-century Atlantic Britain (The Lewis Walpole Library, 2014-11-17 - 2015-05-01) 2
“The Poet of Them All”: William Shakespeare and Miniature Designer Bindings from the Collection of Neale and Margaret Albert (Yale Center for British Art, June 16, 2016-August 21, 2016) 2
An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2020-03-14 - 2021-01-18) 1
An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain (Milwaukee Art Museum, 2021-12-01 - 2022-03-27) 1
An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain (The Amon Carter Museum, 2021-04-17 - 2021-08-08) 1
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30) 1
Art in Focus: The Provocation of Conditions (Yale Center for British Art, 2021-06-21 - 2021-08-23) 1
British Subjects : Identity and Self-Fashioning, 1996-2009 (Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, 2009-09-13 - 2010-01-31) 1
Enlightened Princesses - Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World (Historic Royal Palaces, 2017-06-22 - 2017-11-12) 1
Enlightened Princesses - Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-02-02 - 2017-04-30) 1
Love, Life, Death, and Desire: An Installation of the Center's Collections (Yale Center for British Art, 2020-10-01 - 2021-02-28) 1
Ocean Flowers (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-06-12 - 2004-08-08) 1
Ori Gersht (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-11-06 - 2007-12-21) 1
Ori Gersht , History Repeating (Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2012-08-28 - 2013-01-06) 1
Printing Darkness (Yale University Art Gallery, 2025-06-20 - 2025-12-07) 1
Recent Acquisitions - Summer 2005 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-05-19 - 2006-08-14) 1

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc. 691
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 104
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky in honor of Andria Derstine 36
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of The Hyman Collection, London (Claire and James Hyman) 21
Yale Center for British Art, Laura and James Duncan, Yale BA 1975, and Friends of British Art Fund, in honor of Gillian Forrester 20
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Priseman Seabrook Collection 15
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Brigitte Graneau 13
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund, Smith Richardson Foundation, Iola S. Haverstick Fund 10
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Richard Hamilton 10
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Artist 8
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky 7
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist, through the Foster Art & Wilderness Foundation 6
22861662870008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky in honor of Driek's parents, Gertrude Bersch Bestebreurtze and Arie D. Bestebreurtze 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky in honor of Michael's parents, Edith Silker Zirinisky and Nahman Zirinsky 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rebecca Salter 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist 4
Yale Center for British Art, John F. O'Brien Fund 4
22960448240008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 3
Yale Center for British Art 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barford Sculptures, Ltd. 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie 3
Yale Center for British Art, John F. O'Brien Fund, with additional support from Francis O’Brien 3
22652020100008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert 2
22653420300008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Folio Society 2
22826422130008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 2
22861684240008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 2
22895859820008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 2
22976297410008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss 2
Yale Center for British Art, Director's Discretionary Fund 2

Language

English 14,089
French 149
German 113
Italian 59
Spanish 35
Japanese 15
Dutch 14
Multiple languages 9
Chinese 7
Portuguese 6
Russian 5
Undetermined 4
Estonian 3
Polish 3
Swedish 3
Dakota 2
Hungarian 2
Welsh 2
Catalan 1
Croatian 1
Danish 1
Greek, Modern (1453- ) 1
Hebrew 1
Slovak 1
Vietnamese 1

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On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
Sir Anish Kapoor, born 1954

Shadow IV: Dark Green

2011
Carol Rhodes, 1959–2018

Houses, Gardens

2007
John Hoyland, 1934–2011

The Sea Brought Them, 6/28/00

2000
On view
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, born 1977

Any Number of Preoccupations

2010
Tracey Emin, born 1963

I Followed you to the end

2024
Mark Leonard, born 1954

Constable Study I, November 2011

November, 2011
Nick Mead, born 1968

Untitled 3

2013
Sheila Girling, 1924–2015

Light Lunch

2006
Katy Moran, born 1975

Black Bear

2008
George Shaw, born 1966

Mum's

2018
Tom Wood, born 1955

Cock and Bull, a Portrait of Teddy

2013
John Hoyland, 1934–2011

Night Song 27.4.06

2006
John Hoyland, 1934–2011

Iron Shore (6/26/01)

2001
Damien Hirst, born 1965

Forgive

2003
On view
Cecily Brown, born 1969

The Hound with the Horses' Hooves

2019
Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951

Kingdom

2015
Ansel Krut, born 1959

Narcissi

2015
Simon Burton, born 1973

Divine

2014
Susan Gunn, born 1965

Black Gesso Study, Space IV

2008
Jules Clarke

Dancing on Ice

2011
Nathan Eastwood, born 1972

Time Passing

2013
Marguerite Horner, 1954

Glimpse

2010
Sean Williams, born 1966

Our Bloody Hell

2017
Simon Carter, born 1961

Yacht

2009
Alex Hanna, born 1964

Bubble 6

2014
Kehinde Wiley, born 1977

Portrait of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Jacob Morland of Capplethwaite

2017
Mark Leonard, born 1954

Constable Study IV, December 2011

December, 2011
Mark Leonard, born 1954

Constable Working Study, October 2011

October, 2011
Mark Leonard, born 1954

Constable Color Studies, October 2011

October, 2011
Eileen Hogan, born 1946

Ian Hamilton Finlay

2012
Accessible in the Study Room
Rorer, Abigail.

Bufo the First

2005
Accessible in the Study Room
Lamont-Fisher, Pauline

Daylight

2006
Accessible in the Study Room
Rook, Anne

Virtual orchard

2009
Accessible in the Study Room
Bush, Tracey

Field poppy

2006
Accessible in the Study Room
Tamabayashi, Chisato, 1975–

Plunge

[2010]
Accessible in the Study Room
Narielwalla, Hormazd

Diamond dolls

2021
Accessible in the Study Room
O'Connell, David

Kate Middleton in her own words

2011
Accessible in the Study Room
Norris, Andrew

POETree

2005
Accessible in the Study Room
Bush, Tracey

[Dandelion]

2005-2006
Accessible in the Study Room
Rook, Anne

The book of 4021 & 4020

2002

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