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Prints and Drawings 960
Paintings and Sculpture 228

Creator

Jay, Bill, 1940–2009 148
The, Paragon Press 116
Hoyland, John, 1934–2011 59
Le Brun, Christopher, Sir, born 1951 52
Buckley, Stephen, born 1944 45
Dixon, Jane, born 1963 45
Hodgkin, Howard, Sir, 1932–2017 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
Banting, John, 1902–1972 13
Editions, Alecto Ltd. 13

Date

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 960
Not on view 224
On view 4

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 1,188

Image Available

available 692
unavailable 496

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 8

Classification

Prints 575
Photographs 210
Drawings & Watercolors 175
Paintings 166
Sculptures 60
Posters 2

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
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
Anemones 7

Period

20th century 987
21st century 188
19th century-20th century 7
20th century-21st century 3
19th century 1

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 743
screen printing 233
painting (technique) 162
collage 151
etching (printing process) 108
canvas 103
aquatint 101
xerography 93
graphite 89
oil paint 83
color printing 81
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
gouache 36
lithography 36
watercolor 28
black ink 25
color lithography 25
drypoint 25
dye destruction process 24

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Work Type

planographic print 310
intaglio print 205
drawing 181
painting 166
photograph 131
collage 115
photomechanical print 111
digital print 60
relief print 60
sculpture 59
watercolor 42
statuette 27
maquette 3
bench 2
bust 2
poster 2
statue 1

Genre

abstract art 1,188

architectural subject 91
portrait 81
figure study 63
cartographic material 45
still life 45
cityscape 37
landscape 36
botanical subject 27
animal art 18
military art 17
genre subject 12
religious and mythological subject 5
marine art 3
historical subject 2
anatomical study 1
literary theme 1
sporting art 1

Subject Terms

abstract art 580
figure study 46
architectural subject 43
still life 39
red 35
blue 30
landscape 28
black 23
night 23
gray (color) 22
Squares 21
lines drawings 20
orange 19
woman 19
yellow 19
evening 18
figures 17
brushstrokes 14
animal art 13
text 13
well (container component) 13
man 12
portrait 12
figure 11
flowers 11
rectangles 11
white (color) 11
sun 10
vase 10
botanical subject 9

Subject Period

Associated Places

United Kingdom 12
England 8
Europe 8
Cornwall 6
France 3
London 3
Devon 2
Saint Ives 2
Taw 2
Belgium 1
Brittany 1
Castel Meur 1
Corsica 1
Côtes-du-Nord, Département des 1
Essex 1
Flanders 1
Greater London 1
Mayfair 1
Mediterranean Sea 1
Mornington Crescent 1
Newlyn 1
Penwith 1
Perth and Kinross 1
Plougrescant 1
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence 1
Scotland 1
Spain 1
Toppesfield 1
Tulliallan 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

20th Century Paintings and Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 35
20th Century Works on Paper (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 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
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 32
Revisiting Traditions [BAC 20th century painting & sculpture] (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-04-30 - 2005-05-18) 28
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
Art in Focus : St Ives Abstraction (Yale Center for British Art, 2013-04-12 - 2013-09-29) 19
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 18
Art in Focus : Women at Yale (Yale Center for British Art, 2020-04-08 - 2020-08-30) 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
Bloomsbury Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-05-20 - 2000-09-03) 3
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 3
Juxtapositions (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-11-19 - 1998-01-04) 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
Lynn Chadwick (Edwin Austin Abbey, 1998-01-22 - 1998-03-08) 2
Marvelous Objects - Surrealist Sculpture from Paris to New York (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Smithsonian), 2015-10-15 - 2016-01-31) 2
Pop Art : US / UK Connections 1956-66 (The Menil Collection, 2001-01-26 - 2001-05-13) 2
Prospects of Empire : Slavery and Ecology in Eighteenth-century Atlantic Britain (The Lewis Walpole Library, 2014-11-17 - 2015-05-01) 2
The Art of Bloomsbury : Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-05-20 - 2000-09-03) 2
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05) 2

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 256
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 Marla Price 17
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of The Israel Family 17
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942 16
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
John McLean, 1939–2019

Tullochgorum II

2007
On view
Cecily Brown, born 1969

The Hound with the Horses' Hooves

2019
On view
Henry Moore, 1898–1986

Helmet Head, No. 3

1960
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

Jan 20 1948 (still life, Newlyn)

1948
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

1969 (2 circles in a stone block)

1969
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

May 64 (Kepler)

1964
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

September 1960 (wood)

1960
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

1951 (still life – sweet peas)

1951
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

1934 (still life)

1934
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

1969 (winter blue)

1969
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

April 1950 (goblets)

1950
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

1938 (composition)

1938
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

February 1957 (brown and grey)

1957
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

February 1961 (Galileo)

1961
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

July 15 1949 (St Ives harbour)

1949
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

August 1963 (two mugs, one blue)

August 1963
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

1929 (still life)

1929, reworked 1935
Accessible in the Study Room
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

Two Bottles and Glass

1967 (1973)
Accessible in the Study Room
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

Still Life: Jug & Glass

1948
Accessible in the Study Room
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

May 2-54 (prelude)

ca. 1954
Accessible in the Study Room
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

1940 (composition)

between 1940 and 1947
Bernard Cohen, born 1933

Crown

1964
John Tunnard, 1900–1971

Forecast

1945
Sir Terry Frost, 1915–2003

Linen Blue and Yellow

1961
Duncan Grant, 1885–1978

In Memoriam: Rupert Brooke

1915
Tracey Emin, born 1963

I Followed you to the end

2024
Stanley William Hayter, 1901–1988

Work in Progress

1936
Alan Davie, 1920–2014

Delicious Morsel for the Crocodile

1963
John Virtue, born 1947

Landscape No. 326

between 1996 and 1997
Richard Smith, 1931–2016

Key Ring

ca. 1985
Tony Bevan, born 1951

Exposed Arm

1987
Rebecca Salter, born 1955

K37

1996
John Hoyland, 1934–2011

Maverick Days 20.1.83

1983
John Hoyland, 1934–2011

Tiger Walk 3.4.81

1981
John Hoyland, 1934–2011

Red Snake 13.9.89

1989
John Hoyland, 1934–2011

Devilaya 28.12.77

1977
John Hoyland, 1934–2011

The Full Mad Moon 27.2.90

1990
John Hoyland, 1934–2011

Shine 8.3.83

1983
John Hoyland, 1934–2011

Many Rivers 16.7.91

1991

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