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Prints and Drawings 1,015
Paintings and Sculpture 230

Creator

Jay, Bill, 1940–2009 148
The, Paragon Press 116
Hoyland, John, 1934–2011 59
Le Brun, Christopher, Sir, born 1951 52
Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri, 1891–1915 50
Buckley, Stephen, born 1944 45
Dixon, Jane, born 1963 45
Hodgkin, Howard, Sir, 1932–2017 43
Kelpra, Studio 43
Frost, Terry, Sir, 1915–2003 32
Golding, John, 1929–2012 28
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 27
Salter, Rebecca, born 1955 26
J.C., Editions, established ca. 1971 23
Paolozzi, Eduardo, Sir, 1924–2005 21
Montag, Daro, born 1959 20
Nicholson, Ben, 1894–1982 20
Alan, Cristea Gallery 17
Smith, Richard, 1931–2016 17
Tilson, Joe, 1928–2023 17
Heron, Patrick, 1920–1999 16
McLean, Bruce, Born 1944 16
Bell, Niki, 1959– 15
Kitaj, Ronald Brooks, 1932–2007 15
Langlands, & Bell, since 1978 15
Langlands, Ben, born 1955 15
Long, Richard, Sir, born 1945 15
Turnbull, William, 1922–2012 15
McKeever, Ian, born 1946 14
Walker, John, born 1939 14

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 1,015
Not on view 225
On view 5

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 1,188
Free to Use 57

Image Available

available 749
unavailable 496

Provenance

New Online Additions

2025 - 2026 1

Classification

Prints 576
Drawings & Watercolors 226
Photographs 210
Paintings 170
Sculptures 60
Posters 3

Collective Title

Fifty Etchings 50
Regeneration 41
City Index 36
Venetian Views 34
Snapshots 29
Men Like Me 25
Yew 20
Bethany Squares 18
Kilometre Theatre and Seven Other Seminal Architectural Projects 16
As Is When 14
12 Blueprints 13
The Brushwork Series 13
Enclosure and Identity 12
Loop 12
Rock Drawings: An Eight Day Walk in the Rimrock Area of the Mojave Desert, Southern California 12
Morocco Bound Album 11
September Suite 11
Ten Colour Etchings 11
The Jesus College Quincentennial Portfolio 11
A Line of Retreat 10
Madron Woodcuts (Half Moons) 10
Nazraeli Monograph 10
Portfolio of prints 10
Rough Ride: Works Made in Africa, Australia, Mexico 10
Between Visible and Invisible 9
Fugue 9
The New York Suite 9
The Planted Works 1977-1992 9
Mother and Child Album 8
Screen 8

Period

20th century 1,044
21st century 188
19th century-20th century 7
20th century-21st century 3
19th century 1

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 781
screen printing 233
painting (technique) 166
collage 151
etching (printing process) 109
canvas 105
aquatint 101
graphite 99
xerography 93
oil paint 87
color printing 81
black ink 75
acrylic paint 72
mixed media 63
ink jet printing 61
photographic paper 49
open biting 48
carborundum print 47
hand coloring 44
rubbing 41
artist's proof 39
pastel 39
bronze 38
graph paper 38
lithography 37
gouache 36
watercolor 29
drypoint 26
color lithography 25
dye destruction process 24

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planographic print 311
drawing 232
intaglio print 206
painting 170
photograph 131
collage 115
photomechanical print 111
digital print 60
relief print 60
sculpture 59
watercolor 46
statuette 27
maquette 3
poster 3
bench 2
bust 2
statue 1

Genre

abstract art 1,245

figure study 113
architectural subject 93
portrait 81
still life 47
cartographic material 45
cityscape 38
landscape 37
botanical subject 27
animal art 18
military art 18
genre subject 12
religious and mythological subject 5
marine art 3
sporting art 3
historical subject 2
anatomical study 1
literary theme 1

Subject Terms

abstract art 636
figure study 92
figure 58
Vorticism 55
architectural subject 45
still life 41
red 35
blue 30
landscape 30
black 23
dance 23
night 23
study (visual work) 23
gray (color) 22
Squares 21
lines drawings 20
orange 19
woman 19
yellow 19
evening 18
figures 18
brushstrokes 14
animal art 13
text 13
well (container component) 13
man 12
portrait 12
flowers 11
rectangles 11
sun 11

Subject Period

Associated Places

United Kingdom 13
England 9
Europe 8
Cornwall 6
France 3
London 3
Devon 2
Saint Ives 2
Taw 2
Arno 1
Belgium 1
Brittany 1
Castel Meur 1
Corsica 1
Côtes-du-Nord, Département des 1
Dorset 1
Essex 1
Flanders 1
Florence 1
Greater London 1
Italy 1
Kimmeridge 1
Mayfair 1
Mediterranean Sea 1
Mornington Crescent 1
Newlyn 1
Penwith 1
Perth and Kinross 1
Plougrescant 1
Ponte Vecchio 1

Associated People

Picasso, Pablo (1881–1973), Spanish painter, sculptor, and printmaker 2
Achilles 1
Apollo 1
Auerbach, Frank Helmuth (born 1931) German born British painter and printmaker 1
Brooke, Rupert Chawner (1887–1915), poet 1
Cassandra 1
Dionysus 1
Hephaistos 1
Jesus 1
Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE) 1
Minotaur 1
Poseidon 1
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 1

Exhibition History

Drawings by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (Yale Center for British Art, 1987-02-04 - 1987-03-29) 50
20th Century Paintings and Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 37
20th Century Works on Paper (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 33
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 33
Graphic! British Prints Now (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-08 - 1999-06-06) 33
The Independent Eye: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-09-16 - 2011-01-02) 33
Revisiting Traditions [BAC 20th century painting & sculpture] (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-04-30 - 2005-05-18) 29
The Independent Eye: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie (Flowers Galleries, 2011-01-26 - ) 25
Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-06-20 - 2019-09-08) 23
20th Century Works on Paper - Recent Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-11-01 - 2002-03-31) 22
Just what was it that made British Pop so different, so appealing? (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-01-26 - 2004-05-09) 21
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 20
Art in Focus : St Ives Abstraction (Yale Center for British Art, 2013-04-12 - 2013-09-29) 19
Art in Focus : Women at Yale (Yale Center for British Art, 2020-04-08 - 2020-08-30) 6
Bloomsbury Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-05-20 - 2000-09-03) 6
John Walker: The Carter Gift (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-06-22 - 1999-09-26) 6
Figuring Women - The Female in Modern British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-03-28 - 2008-06-08) 5
Rebecca Salter (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-02-03 - 2011-05-01) 5
James Stirling (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-10-14 - 2011-01-02) 4
Juxtapositions (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-11-19 - 1998-01-04) 4
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 3
Into the Night : Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art (Barbican Art Gallery, 2019-10-04 - 2020-01-19) 3
Into the Night : Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art (Belvedere Museum, 2020-02-14 - 2020-06-01) 3
Love, Life, Death, and Desire: An Installation of the Center's Collections (Yale Center for British Art, 2020-10-01 - 2021-02-28) 3
Recent Acquisitions - Summer 2005 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-05-19 - 2006-08-14) 3
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11) 2
Bill Brandt | Henry Moore (Yale Center for British Art, 2022-11-17 - 2023-02-26) 2
C. R. W. Nevinson (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-02-25 - 2000-05-07) 2
Doomed Youth The Poetry and the Pity of World War I (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-06-22 - 1999-09-26) 2
Lynn Chadwick (Edwin Austin Abbey, 1998-01-22 - 1998-03-08) 2

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 311
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc. 195
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 57
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie 56
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields 56
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara Sunderman Hoerner 51
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 John Golding Artistic Trust, 2017 26
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker 25
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 20
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of R. B. Kitaj 19
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942 17
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Marla Price 17
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of The Israel Family 17
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Charles Booth-Clibborn 15
Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift 13
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 11
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Kasser / Mochary Family Foundation 11
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Terrence D. Curley 10
Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous gift 9
Yale Center for British Art, Gift from the Collection of Richard & Susan Reece 8
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jeffrey H. Loria, Yale BA 1962 7
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Russell 7
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mark Magowan in honor of Isabel Magowan, Yale MFA 2015 7
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nicholas Pritzker 7
Yale Center for British Art, Purchased with funds from the Bequest of Daniel S. Kalk and the Friends of British Art Fund 7
Yale Center for British Art, The Lewis Walpole Library Collection 7
Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection 7
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Anthony and Madeleine Carter 6

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On view
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

May 1955 (Gwithian)

1955
On view
Spencer Frederick Gore, 1878–1914

Design for Deer Hunting Mural in the Cabaret Theatre Club

1912
On view
Cecily Brown, born 1969

The Hound with the Horses' Hooves

2019
On view
John McLean, 1939–2019

Tullochgorum II

2007
On view
Henry Moore, 1898–1986

Helmet Head, No. 3

1960
John Wells, 1907–2000

Painting on Red

1947
Sandra Blow, 1925–2006

Red Circle

1960
Kit Barker, 1916–1988

Causeway

1962
John McHale, 1922–1978

e.v.I

1958
John McHale, 1922–1978

11/60

ca. 1960
John McHale, 1922–1978

Pink Eyes

1959
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

1951 (still life – sweet peas)

1951
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

1969 (2 circles in a stone block)

1969
Frank Auerbach, 1931–2024

Head of Jacob

1978 to 1979
Stephen Buckley, born 1944

Brilliant Corners

1977
Robyn Denny, 1930–2014

"Over Here, Over There"

1982 to 1983
Tracey Emin, born 1963

I Followed you to the end

2024
Victor Pasmore, 1908–1998

Abstract in Brown, White, Black and Ochre

1956
Robert Mason, born 1946

Working on Top

1989
Peter Lanyon, 1918–1964

Penwith

1948
Peter Nadin, born 1954

Thread

1993
John Wells, 1907–2000

Night Flowering

1957
Roger Hilton, 1911–1975

Painting, Summer 1963

1963
Ivon Hitchens, 1893–1979

Dark Forest

1962
Patrick Heron, 1920–1999

Three Cadmiums

1966
Desmond Morris, born 1928

Dyadic Encounter

1972
John Golding, 1929–2012

1989 J. 11 (Ursus)

1989
John Hoyland, 1934–2011

5.2.67

1967
John Wells, 1907–2000

May Month, 1956

1956
Andrew Forge, 1923–2002

Tree of Life (Clair)

between 1987 and 1989
Michael Challenger, born 1939

Fort Blox, 1972

1972
John Wells, 1907–2000

No. 3, 1957

1957
John Tunnard, 1900–1971

Transformation of Red

1939
John Wells, 1907–2000

June 1958

1958
Trevor Bell, 1930–2017

Orange on Top

1959
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

May 64 (Kepler)

1964
Alan Reynolds, 1926–2014

Seeding in Winter

1953
Anthony Fry, 1927–2016

Dancing Figures, No. 4

ca. 1957
Bryan Wynter, 1915–1975

Two Menhirs

ca. 1950
John Bellany, 1942–2013

Conversation with Fate

1989

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