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Prints and Drawings 506
Paintings and Sculpture 53

Creator

Romney, George, 1734–1802 186
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 59
John, Augustus Edwin, 1878–1961 45
Unknown artist 29
Grant, Duncan, 1885–1978 15
John, Gwen, 1876–1939 14
Sartorio, Giulio Aristide, 1860–1932 10
Sickert, Walter, 1860–1942 9
Austin, Robert, 1895–1973 8
Brangwyn, Frank, Sir, 1867–1956 8
Lewis, Wyndham, 1882–1957 8
The, Paragon Press 8
Copley, John, 1875–1950 7
Jones, Allen, born 1937 6
Butler, Reg, 1913–1981 5
Marlborough, Fine Art (London) Ltd. 5
Morley, Lewis, 1925–2013 5
Blake, Peter, Sir, born 1932 4
Clausen, George Sir, 1852–1944 4
Claxton, Florence, active 1855–1889 4
Gill, Arthur Eric Rowton, 1882–1940 4
Larrabee, Constance Stuart 4
Rothenstein, William, Sir, 1872–1945 4
Armitage, Kenneth, 1916–2002 3
Belleroche, Albert de, 1864–1944 3
Davidson, Bruce, born 1933 3
Lamb, Henry, 1883–1960 3
Le Brun, Christopher, Sir, born 1951 3
Quinn, Marc, born 1964 3
Spencer, Stanley, Sir, 1891–1959 3

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 506
Not on view 51
On view 2

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 559

Image Available

available 559

Provenance

New Online Additions

2025 - 2026 3

Classification

Drawings & Watercolors 379
Prints 104
Paintings 27
Sculptures 26
Photographs 21
Posters 2

Collective Title

Mother and Child Album 30
Album 5
Portrait One to Seven 5
Side Show 4
A Collection of 14 Lithographs, 1952-54 3
Fifty Etchings 3
Emotional Detoxification 2
Harlequin Series 2
Photographers Photographed 2
Shock and Awe 2
Body of Work 1
England / Scotland 1960 1
Jake and Dinos' Disasters of War 1
London 1

Period

20th century 233
18th century 189
19th century-20th century 88
19th century 30
21st century 11
18th century-19th century 3
17th century-18th century 2
unknown period 2

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 278
graphite 270
laid paper 174
gray wash 119
etching (printing process) 60
black ink 55
black chalk 39
brown ink 35
watercolor 35
pen 32
aquatint 31
color printing 26
painting (technique) 24
bronze 23
oil paint 20
brown wash 19
roulette 18
gelatin silver process 15
white chalk 15
gouache 14
lithography 12
board 11
drypoint 11
canvas 8
red chalk 8
panel (wood) 7
photographic paper 7
wood engraving (process) 7
handmade paper 6
collotype 5

Height [cm]

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Work Type

drawing 377
watercolor 156
intaglio print 67
planographic print 27
painting 26
sculpture 23
photograph 21
statuette 18
relief print 9
photomechanical print 6
digital print 5
statue 3
poster 2
bust 1
collage 1
maquette 1

Genre

figure study 559

portrait 71
abstract art 58
genre subject 50
religious and mythological subject 23
animal art 9
literary theme 8
military art 7
landscape 6
cartographic material 2
historical subject 2
still life 2
anatomical study 1
architectural subject 1
cityscape 1
marine art 1
sporting art 1

Subject Terms

figure study 459
woman 122
figures 68
man 67
portrait 61
nude 57
genre subject 43
abstract art 41
women 41
standing 40
seated 35
figure 33
child 29
men 25
religious and mythological subject 25
mother 22
dress 20
head 20
children 19
costume 18
sitting 18
hat 17
reclining 17
girl 16
female 15
boy 12
nudes 12
male 11
study (visual work) 11
chair 10

Subject Period

Associated Places

England 6
Europe 6
United Kingdom 6
India 3
South Asia 3
France 2
Italy 2
Africa 1
Alderney 1
Blackpool 1
Brighton 1
Buxton 1
Café Suisse 1
Dieppe 1
Dorset 1
East Sussex 1
Essex 1
Grezzana 1
Haute-Normandie 1
Lancashire 1
Lesotho 1
London 1
Paris 1
Seine-Maritime, Département de la 1
Veneto 1
Venezia 1
Widdington 1
Île-de-France 1

Associated People

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 7
Orton, John Kingsley “Joe” (1933–1967), playwright 5
Christ 4
Hamilton, Emma, Lady Hamilton (bap. 1765, d. 1815), social celebrity and artist's model 3
Cassandra 2
Eve 2
Adam 1
Ariadne 1
Austin, Robert Sargent (1895 - 1973), printmaker 1
Banquo (character in Macbeth) 1
Bell [née Stephen], Vanessa (1879–1961), painter 1
Blake, William (1757–1827), engraver, artist, and poet 1
Ceres, Roman deity 1
Compton, Lady Betty (1904–1944), stage actress 1
Curwen, Isabella (British patrician, 1765–1820) 1
George Harry Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford (1 October 1737 – 28 May 1819) 1
Hebe 1
Jesus 1
Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE) 1
Joan, of Arc, Saint (1412–1431), French heroine 1
Madonna 1
Mary 1
Mary Magdalene 1
McNeill, Dorothy (Dorelia) (1881–1969), Partner and muse of Augustus John 1
Milton, John (1608–1674), poet and polemicist 1
Nettleship, Ida Margaret (24 January 1877–14 March 1907) English artist 1
Phryne (4th century BC), courtesan 1
Ramus, Benedetta 1
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834–1903), painter and printmaker 1
William III and II (1650–1702), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and prince of Orange 1

Exhibition History

A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 13
Revisiting Traditions [BAC 20th century painting & sculpture] (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-04-30 - 2005-05-18) 12
20th Century Paintings and Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 11
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 10
20th Century Works on Paper (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 9
Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-06-20 - 2019-09-08) 9
John Copley 1875-1950 (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-06 - 1990-04-01) 7
Figuring Women - The Female in Modern British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-03-28 - 2008-06-08) 4
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 3
Augustus John and Gwen John (National Museum Wales, 2005-02-12 - 2005-05-15) 2
Augustus John and Gwen John (Tate Britain, 2004-09-29 - 2005-01-09) 2
Bill Brandt | Henry Moore (Yale Center for British Art, 2022-11-17 - 2023-02-26) 2
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 2
A Room of Their Own - The Artists of Bloomsbury in American Collections (Palmer Museum of Art, 2010-07-06 - 2010-09-26) 1
A Room of Their Own - The Artists of Bloomsbury in American Collections (Smith College Museum of Art, 2010-04-01 - 2010-06-15) 1
Bloomsbury Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-05-20 - 2000-09-03) 1
British Subjects : Identity and Self-Fashioning, 1996-2009 (Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, 2009-09-13 - 2010-01-31) 1
Department of Photography Rotation (Yale University Art Gallery, 2025-12-19 - 2026-05-24) 1
Eight Figurative Painters (Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1982-01-29 - 1982-03-28) 1
Eight Figurative Painters (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-10-14 - 1982-01-03) 1
English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17) 1
Francis Bacon (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 2003-10-15 - 2004-01-18) 1
Francis Bacon - Paintings From The 1950s (Milwaukee Art Museum, 2007-01-29 - 2007-04-15) 1
Francis Bacon - Paintings From The 1950s (Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 2006-10-01 - 2006-12-10) 1
Francis Bacon - Portraits and Heads (Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2005-10-06 - 2006-01-28) 1
Francis Bacon - Portraits and Heads (National Galleries of Scotland, 2005-06-04 - 2005-09-04) 1
Francis Bacon 2000 Exhibition (Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, 2000-06-01 - 2000-08-31) 1
Francis Bacon : A Retrospective Exhibition (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1999-06-13 - 1999-08-02) 1
Francis Bacon : A Retrospective Exhibition (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1999-04-08 - 1999-05-27) 1
Francis Bacon : A Retrospective Exhibition (The Museum of Modern Art of Fort Worth, 1999-08-20 - 1999-10-15) 1

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938 131
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 56
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938, to the Yale University Art Gallery 55
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 47
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mrs. and Mr. Jeffrey H. Loria, Yale BA 1962, in memory of Ruth and Walter Loria 27
Yale Center for British Art, Estate of Brian Sewell 26
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 23
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 15
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mitchell Bobkin 14
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 10
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker 10
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 10
Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection 10
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Elizabeth S. Tower 6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara Sunderman Hoerner 6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lillian Heidenberg Reitman 6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mrs. and Mr. Jeffrey H. Loria, Yale BA 1962, in memory of Harriet Loria Popowitz 6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jeffrey H. Loria, Yale BA 1962 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald and Willi Holden 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush & Kaller, LLP 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965 4
Lent from a Private Collection 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jeffrey H. Loria, Yale BA 1962, in memory of Harriet Loria Popowitz 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc. 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nicholas Pritzker 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia Cornwell 3
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Booth-Clibborn 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dorothy C. Weicker in honor and memory of her parents, Beatrice Trostel and Frederick E. Weicker, Yale BS 1931 2

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On view
Francis Bacon, 1909–1992

Study of a Head

1952
On view
Leon Kossoff, 1926–2019

Fidelma III

1979
Frank Auerbach, 1931–2024

Seated Figure II

1961
Anthony Fry, 1927–2016

Nudes

ca. 1962
Gwen John, 1876–1939

Study of a Nun

ca. 1915
Tom Wood, born 1955

Dreaming of Colours

1994
Tom Wood, born 1955

Dreaming of Shapes

1994
Leon Kossoff, 1926–2019

Seated Figure

1960
Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959

The Corporal of Horse

ca. 1927
Michael Andrews, 1928–1995

Study of a Head with a White Hat

1967
Euan Uglow, 1932–2000

Double Square

1999 to 2000
Michael Andrews, 1928–1995

Study of a Head for Lights

1968
Anthony Fry, 1927–2016

Group of Dancing Figures

ca. 1961
Gwen John, 1876–1939

Seated Woman in a Broad-Brimmed Hat

undated
Laurence Stephen Lowry, 1887–1976

Study - Figure

1954
Keith Vaughan, 1912–1977

Warrior

1961
Phoebe Unwin, born 1979

Portrait with Folded Arms

2009
Lucy Jones, born 1955

Untitled (White Dungarees on Blue Background)

1999
Celia Paul, born 1959

Annela

2000 to 2001
Celia Paul, born 1959

Girlfriends

2000
Dame Barbara Hepworth, 1903–1975

Two Figures

1951
Albert de Belleroche, 1864–1944

Portrait of a Woman

undated
Augustus Edwin John, 1878–1961

Dorelia in the Garden at Alderney Manor, Dorset

ca. 1911
John Kirby, born 1949

Looking On

1999
Sir Matthew Smith, 1879–1959

Reclining Nude

1926
Roger Furse, 1903–1972

Untitled Abstract

1962
Nathan Eastwood, born 1972

Time Passing

2013
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Yoshijiro Urushibara, Japanese, 1888–1953

Sheet of Figure Studies after Brangwyn

1940
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Seated Female with Arms Raised Turning to Right

undated
Henry Moore, 1898–1986

Woman Reading

original terracotta 1946, cast 1970
Lynn Chadwick, 1914–2003

Winged Figures II

1973
Reg Butler, 1913–1981

Man

early 1960s
Henry Moore, 1898–1986

Madonna and Child

1943
Kenneth Armitage, 1916–2002

Triarchy

1957
Accessible in the Study Room
Sir William Orpen, 1878–1931

Seated Woman with a Flower Hat

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Lady with a Veil

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Man in Tartan Kilt and Top Armor

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Walter Greaves, 1846–1930

Portrait Study of Whistler

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Portrait

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Head of a Young Man

undated

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