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Prints and Drawings 320
Paintings and Sculpture 50

Creator

Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri, 1891–1915 62
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 59
Gore, Spencer Frederick, 1878–1914 21
Grant, Duncan, 1885–1978 15
John, Gwen, 1876–1939 11
Blake, Peter, Sir, born 1932 10
Copley, John, 1875–1950 9
Austin, Robert, 1895–1973 8
Lewis, Wyndham, 1882–1957 8
Rothenstein, William, Sir, 1872–1945 8
The, Paragon Press 7
Coplans, John, 1920–2003 6
Golding, John, 1929–2012 6
Jay, Bill, 1940–2009 6
John, Augustus Edwin, 1878–1961 6
Jones, Allen, born 1937 6
Butler, Reg, 1913–1981 5
Marlborough, Fine Art (London) Ltd. 5
Morley, Lewis, 1925–2013 5
Larrabee, Constance Stuart 4
Armitage, Kenneth, 1916–2002 3
Bevan, Robert, 1865–1925 3
Davidson, Bruce, born 1933 3
Gill, Arthur Eric Rowton, 1882–1940 3
Lamb, Henry, 1883–1960 3
Le Brun, Christopher, Sir, born 1951 3
Quinn, Marc, born 1964 3
Vaughan, Keith, 1912–1977 3
Andrews, Michael, 1928–1995 2
Bell, Vanessa, 1879–1961 2

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 320
Not on view 48
On view 2

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 270
Free to Use 100

Image Available

available 327
unavailable 43

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 4

Classification

Drawings & Watercolors 176
Prints 113
Photographs 28
Sculptures 25
Paintings 24
Posters 3

Collective Title

Mother and Child Album 30
Studies for Decorations for the Cave of the Golden Calf 19
Morocco Bound Album 11
Studies from a Life Drawing Class 8
Album 5
Portrait One to Seven 5
The Wrestlers 5
Side Show 4
A Collection of 14 Lithographs, 1952-54 3
Fifty Etchings 3
Emotional Detoxification 2
Harlequin Series 2
Twelve Original Woodcuts 2
Body of Work 1
England / Scotland 1960 1
Jake and Dinos' Disasters of War 1
London 1

Period

20th century 370

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 217
black ink 82
graphite 74
etching (printing process) 59
laid paper 45
aquatint 30
color printing 26
black chalk 22
bronze 22
painting (technique) 22
watercolor 22
gelatin silver process 20
oil paint 20
roulette 18
gouache 13
brown ink 12
photographic paper 12
drypoint 11
pastel 11
gray wash 10
ink 10
lithography 10
pen 9
screen printing 9
brown wash 8
canvas 8
wood engraving (process) 8
collage 7
panel (wood) 7
board 6

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drawing 173
intaglio print 69
planographic print 33
watercolor 30
painting 25
sculpture 23
photograph 22
statuette 18
photomechanical print 12
relief print 12
collage 7
poster 3
statue 3
digital print 1
maquette 1

Genre

figure study 370

abstract art 110
portrait 50
genre subject 36
architectural subject 18
animal art 13
religious and mythological subject 6
landscape 4
military art 3
sporting art 3
still life 3
anatomical study 1
cartographic material 1
cityscape 1
historical subject 1
marine art 1

Subject Terms

figure study 293
abstract art 90
Vorticism 64
figure 64
study (visual work) 56
woman 46
nude 40
portrait 35
genre subject 30
design 25
man 25
dance 24
cabaret 21
architectural subject 19
theater design 19
figures 17
head 17
women 17
female 16
figures (representations) 16
men 16
child 14
nightclub 14
animal art 13
hat 13
sitting 11
mother 10
nudes 10
boy 8
kneeling 8

Subject Period

Associated Places

England 25
United Kingdom 25
Europe 23
City of Westminster 21
London 21
The Cave of the Golden Calf 21
Asia 8
Bharat 8
India 8
Greater London 2
Africa 1
Alderney 1
Blackpool 1
Brighton 1
Buxton 1
Dorset 1
East Sussex 1
Grezzana 1
Italy 1
Lancashire 1
Lesotho 1

Associated People

Orton, John Kingsley “Joe” (1933–1967), playwright 5
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 2
Austin, Robert Sargent (1895 - 1973), printmaker 1
Bell [née Stephen], Vanessa (1879–1961), painter 1
Blake, William (1757–1827), engraver, artist, and poet 1
Cassandra 1
Ceres, Roman deity 1
Christ 1
Eve 1
Harlequin 1
Jesus 1
Mary 1
Mary Magdalene 1
McNeill, Dorothy (Dorelia) (1881–1969), Partner and muse of Augustus John 1
Murry [née Beauchamp; other married name Bowden], Kathleen [known as Katherine Mansfield] (1888–1923), writer 1
Phryne (4th century BC), courtesan 1
Picasso, Pablo (1881–1973), Spanish painter, sculptor, and printmaker 1

Exhibition History

Drawings by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (Yale Center for British Art, 1987-02-04 - 1987-03-29) 62
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
20th Century Works on Paper (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
John Copley 1875-1950 (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-06 - 1990-04-01) 9
Into the Night : Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art (Barbican Art Gallery, 2019-10-04 - 2020-01-19) 7
Into the Night : Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art (Belvedere Museum, 2020-02-14 - 2020-06-01) 7
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 5
Figuring Women - The Female in Modern British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-03-28 - 2008-06-08) 4
Just what was it that made British Pop so different, so appealing? (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-01-26 - 2004-05-09) 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
Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-06-20 - 2019-09-08) 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
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11) 1
Bloomsbury Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-05-20 - 2000-09-03) 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
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

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 106
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, Paul Mellon Collection 22
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mitchell Bobkin 16
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick Gore 14
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 12
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc. 12
Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection 10
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker 9
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 9
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 7
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 Mr. & Mrs. Robert Anthoine 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 the John Golding Artistic Trust, 2017 6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jeffrey H. Loria, Yale BA 1962 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush & Kaller, LLP 4
Lent from a Private Collection 3
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Elizabeth S. Tower 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 Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nicholas Pritzker 3
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection 3
Yale Center for British Art, Estate of Brian Sewell 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Booth-Clibborn 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald and Willi Holden 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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Accessible in the Study Room
Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961

Woman in an Armchair

ca. 1921
Accessible in the Study Room
Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961

Seated Nude

ca. 1924
Accessible in the Study Room
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Ballet Dancer

1979
Accessible in the Study Room
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Ballet Dancer

1979
Accessible in the Study Room
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

Figures at Mass, Poland

ca. 1904
Tom Wood, born 1955

Dreaming of Shapes

1994
Leon Kossoff, 1926–2019

Seated Figure

1960
Gwen John, 1876–1939

Study of a Nun

ca. 1915
Tom Wood, born 1955

Dreaming of Colours

1994
Anthony Fry, 1927–2016

Nudes

ca. 1962
Frank Auerbach, 1931–2024

Seated Figure II

1961
On view
Francis Bacon, 1909–1992

Study of a Head

1952
On view
Leon Kossoff, 1926–2019

Fidelma III

1979
Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959

The Corporal of Horse

ca. 1927
Dame Barbara Hepworth, 1903–1975

Two Figures

1951
Lucy Jones, born 1955

Untitled (White Dungarees on Blue Background)

1999
Celia Paul, born 1959

Girlfriends

2000
Celia Paul, born 1959

Annela

2000 to 2001
John Kirby, born 1949

Looking On

1999
Michael Andrews, 1928–1995

Study of a Head for Lights

1968
Euan Uglow, 1932–2000

Double Square

1999 to 2000
Gwen John, 1876–1939

Seated Woman in a Broad-Brimmed Hat

undated
L. S. Lowry, 1887–1976

Study - Figure

1954
Keith Vaughan, 1912–1977

Warrior

1961
Michael Andrews, 1928–1995

Study of a Head with a White Hat

1967
Anthony Fry, 1927–2016

Group of Dancing Figures

ca. 1961
Roger Furse, 1903–1972

Untitled Abstract

1962
Phoebe Unwin, born 1979

Portrait with Folded Arms

2009
Sir Matthew Smith, 1879–1959

Reclining Nude

1926
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Yoshijiro Urushibara, Japanese, 1888–1953

Sheet of Figure Studies after Brangwyn

1940
Henry Moore, 1898–1986

Maquette for Lincoln Center Reclining Figure

ca. 1963
Henry Moore, 1898–1986

Half-Figure Mother and Child

1983
Henry Moore, 1898–1986

Egyptian Figures I

1978
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 Walter Thomas Monnington, 1902–1976

Full Length Study of Mr. Gardner

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957

Abstract Figure Study

1921
Accessible in the Study Room
Sir Walter Thomas Monnington, 1902–1976

Man's Head (Mr. Gardner)

1932

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