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Prints and Drawings 1,216
Paintings and Sculpture 78

Creator

Davidson, Bruce, born 1933 137
The, Paragon Press 105
Currie, Ken, born 1960 99
King, Simon, born 1951 98
Unknown artist 82
Hoppé, E. O. (Emil Otto), 1878–1972 66
Larrabee, Constance Stuart 54
Austin, Robert, 1895–1973 35
Jones, Dafydd, born 1965 33
Morley, Lewis, 1925–2013 30
Jay, Bill, 1940–2009 27
Lumsden, E. S. (Ernest S.), 1883–1948 26
Turner, John 24
Florio, Jason, born 1965 21
McBey, James, 1883–1959 21
Briscoe, Arthur John Reginald Trevor, 1873–1943 20
Fox, Anna, born 1961 20
Brangwyn, Frank, Sir, 1867–1956 19
Cain, Charles William, 1893–1962 18
Sickert, Walter, 1860–1942 17
Flint, W. Russell (William Russell), Sir, 1880–1969 14
Hardy, Bert, 1913–1995 14
London, and North Eastern Railway 14
Blampied, Edmund, 1886–1966 12
Low, David, Sir, 1891–1963 12
Claxton, Florence, active 1855–1889 11
Shannon, Charles Haslewood, 1863–1937 11
Short, Frank, Sir, 1857–1945 11
Calvert, Edward, 1799–1883 10
Evans, Frederick Henry, 1853–1943 10

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 1,216
Not on view 71
On view 7

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 1,294

Image Available

available 906
unavailable 388

Provenance

New Online Additions

Classification

Prints 474
Photographs 459
Drawings & Watercolors 171
Posters 110
Paintings 76
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural 2
Sculptures 1

Collective Title

England / Scotland 1960 103
Teenage Balls 33
Snapshots 23
This Is Libya 21
Back to the Village 17
Nine Early Engravings by Edward Calvert 10
Venice Set 7
Bluebell Girls 6
Blackpool 5
Ten Etchings 5
The United Kingdom Shows Her Produce 5
A Trawler in Wartime 4
George Fox His Journal 4
Life in the Elephant 4
Screen 3
Six Venice Etchings 3
Beseak to Baghdad 2
England /Scotland 1960 2
Harlequin Series 2
Illustration from 'The Time of Man' by Elizabeth Madox Roberts 2
Jake and Dinos' Disasters of War 2
Jane Eyre Series 2
Photographers Photographed 2
Report on Steel 2
Rivington Place Portfolio 2
The Shipping Forecast 2
Walton's Compleat Angler 2
51 Monotypes 1
Apollinaire, Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée 1
Dogs Drawn from Nature 1

Period

20th century 1,001
19th century-20th century 93
19th century 84
21st century 75
18th century 21
18th century-19th century 9
20th century-21st century 9

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 396
gelatin silver process 371
photographic paper 340
etching (printing process) 221
laid paper 216
drypoint 142
graphite 102
linocut 101
watercolor 77
painting (technique) 76
oil paint 70
black ink 67
contact printing 66
canvas 63
lithography 45
chromogenic processes 43
gouache 41
pen 38
ink jet printing 29
line engraving 25
gray wash 20
chromolithography 19
Asian paper 17
black chalk 17
aquatint 16
brown ink 16
mezzotint 14
white gouache 13
wood engraving (process) 13
blue chalk 12

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Work Type

photograph 456
intaglio print 303
drawing 173
planographic print 143
relief print 130
poster 104
watercolor 102
painting 75
digital print 33
photomechanical print 8
collage 7
cake 1
sculpture 1

Genre

genre subject 1,294

architectural subject 146
landscape 131
portrait 131
cityscape 117
animal art 61
figure study 57
marine art 48
historical subject 14
military art 14
sporting art 14
abstract art 12
religious and mythological subject 8
literary theme 6
still life 5
cartographic material 2

Subject Terms

genre subject 764
men 179
portrait 131
woman 119
women 118
man 117
architectural subject 112
landscape 96
cityscape 79
children 66
leisure 57
animal art 54
trees 54
costume 51
hats 48
walking 48
hat 47
labor 47
buildings 45
street 45
figure study 43
crowd 40
marine art 40
party 39
working 39
dance 36
beach 33
teenagers 33
child 31
sitting 31

Subject Period

Associated Places

United Kingdom 179
England 159
Europe 141
London 129
Greater London 46
Scotland 21
Asia 17
Hyde Park 17
Italy 17
Wales 16
East Sussex 15
France 14
Tripoli 14
Hampshire 13
Trafalgar Square 13
Brighton 12
City of Westminster 11
Libya 11
India 10
Middle East 8
Chelsea 7
Thames 7
Veneto 7
Blackpool 6
Lancashire 6
Venice 6
Myanmar 5
North and Central America 5
United States 5
Venezia 5

Associated People

Calvert, Edward (English painter and printmaker, 1799–1883) 10
Fox, George (1624–1691), a founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) 4
Albert (1819–1861), prince consort, consort of Queen Victoria 3
Bentley, John W. (1880–1951), British artist 3
Victoria (1819–1901), queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and empress of India 3
Ali, Tariq (born 1943), writer, journalist, and filmmaker 2
Hockney, David (born 1937), English painter, printmaker, and photographer 2
Redgrave, Vanessa (born 1937), actress and activist 2
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 2
Sheppard, Hugh Richard Lawrie "Dick" (1880–1937) British Anglican priest, Dean of Canterbury and Christian pacifist 2
Stoltz, David (born 1943), American sculptor 2
saints 2
Adam 1
Amazons 1
Bell [née Stephen], Vanessa (1879–1961), painter 1
Bennett, Alan (born 1934), playwright, screenwriter, actor, and author 1
Ceres, Roman deity 1
Coats, Elise Agnes (née Walker, ca. 1856–1910), later Lady Glen Coats 1
Constable, John (1776–1837), landscape painter and draughtsman 1
Cook, Peter (1937–1995), humorist and entertainer 1
Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658), lord protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland 1
Dacre, Susan Isabel (1844–1933), painter and draftsman 1
DiCaprio, Leonardo Wilhelm (1974), American actor, film producer, and environmentalist 1
Egan, Rusty (born 1957), former drummer for the British new wave band Rich Kids 1
Eve 1
Farley, Guy (born 1963), British musician and composer 1
Folin, Anaïs 1
Forster, Ariane Daniela (1962–2010), German vocalist known by her stage name Ari Up, member of the English punk rock band The Slits 1
Foscari, Francesco (1373–1457), doge of Venice 1
Gaddafi, Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar (1942–2011), commonly known as Colonel Gaddafi, was a Libyan revolutionary, politician, and political theorist 1

Exhibition History

Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-06-20 - 2019-09-08) 20
Art for All - British Posters for Transport (Musée de l'Imprimerie, 2010-10-13 - 2011-02-15) 18
Art for All - British Posters for Transport (The Wolfsonian Museum, 2011-04-15 - 2011-08-14) 18
Art for All - British Posters for Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-05-27 - 2010-08-15) 18
20th Century Works on Paper (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 11
Graphic! British Prints Now (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-08 - 1999-06-06) 8
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 7
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 7
Peterloo and Protest (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-08-16 - 2019-12-01) 7
Revisiting Traditions [BAC 20th century painting & sculpture] (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-04-30 - 2005-05-18) 7
20th Century Paintings and Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 5
John Copley 1875-1950 (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-06 - 1990-04-01) 5
Bloomsbury Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-05-20 - 2000-09-03) 4
Recent Acquisitions - Summer 2005 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-05-19 - 2006-08-14) 4
The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29) 4
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30) 3
Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07) 3
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 3
Figuring Women - The Female in Modern British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-03-28 - 2008-06-08) 3
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 3
20th Century Works on Paper - Recent Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-11-01 - 2002-03-31) 2
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
Distinct Observation: Notation (New York Studio School, 2000-10-17 - 2000-11-13) 2
Edwardian Opulence (Yale Center for British Art, 2013-02-28 - 2013-06-02) 2
Juxtapositions (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-11-19 - 1998-01-04) 2
Reflections on a Life with Horses : Paintings by Sir Alfred Munnings from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-01 - 2008-04-01) 2
Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1880-1945: Creating a Room of One's Own (Clark Art Institute, 2025-06-14 - 2025-09-14) 2
A Room of Their Own - The Artists of Bloomsbury in American Collections (Block Museum of Art, 2010-01-15 - 2010-03-15) 1
A Room of Their Own - The Artists of Bloomsbury in American Collections (Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 2009-07-18 - 2009-10-18) 1

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 234
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965 145
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 135
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 100
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of The Hyman Collection, London (Claire and James Hyman) 87
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Graham Howe 66
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc. 59
Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 48
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 37
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Richard S. and Jeanne Press 36
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ralph and Nancy Segall 31
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy 30
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith and Norman A. Zlotsky, Yale BS 1953 25
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 20
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles and E. Jennifer Monaghan 10
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus, Jr. 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; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 9
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald and Willi Holden 8
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 8
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan 6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965, in honor of Amy Meyers Yale PhD 1985, and director of the Yale Center for British Art 2002-2019 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia Cornwell and Harvard Art Museum 5
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Donald & Willi Holden 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Craig Jacobson 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel Bell 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith Zlotsky 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. Albert Gold 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nicholas Pritzker 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the George School, Newtown, Pennsylvania 4

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Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961

Christmas Decorations

ca. 1915
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961

The Schoolroom

1938
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
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Afghan Horsemen

1976
Accessible in the Study Room
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

Crocks

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

The Horse Mart (Barbican No. 1)

1920
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Edgware Row; Hayley, Greville, Romney, and Emma

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Crowd Scene

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

The Wronged Maid, The Dissecting Room

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

The Wronged Maid

undated
On view
Sir John Lavery, 1856–1941

On the Clyde - Study of Elise Agnes Coats (née Walker), later Lady Glen Coats

1890
Steven Campbell, 1953–2007

Two Gardeners in an Impromptu Carnival Atmosphere

1984
Sir William Rothenstein, 1872–1945

A Scene in the Spitalfields Synagogue

ca. 1904
Bill Jacklin, born 1943

Interior painting

1978-1979
Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942

The Beach at Scheveningen

1887
Attributed to Philip Wilson Steer, 1860–1942

Shore Scene with Bathing Huts and Figures

ca. 1890
Robert Fawcett, born 1966

Asleep

2000
On view
Charles Ginner, 1878–1952

The Fruit Stall, King's Cross

1914
Cecil Rochfort D'Oyly John, 1906–1993

Cafe Tabac #2

undated
Cecil Rochfort D'Oyly John, 1906–1993

Cafe Tabac

undated
Duncan Grant, 1885–1978

Vanessa Bell at Her Easel

1914
Roma Higgins, 1908–1979

A Day at the Beach

undated
Claude Harrison, 1922–2009

Annual Holiday

undated
Roma Higgins, 1908–1979

The Kitchen Tea

undated
David Holt, 1928–2014

Coastal Watcher

1963
L. S. Lowry, 1887–1976

The Market Place

1952
Bill Jacklin, born 1943

Matty's Diner II (study)

1998
Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942

The Trapeze

ca. 1920
Peter Brook, 1927–2009

Cumbrian Village Bowling Team and Supporters Playing Away and Waiting for... [Read more]

late 1960s
John Kirby, born 1949

First Communion

2000
Dietmar Lutz, born 1968

46 Sidney Road

2004
Robert Fawcett, born 1966

Doorway

2000
John Kirby, born 1949

Ghost

1994
Bill Jacklin, born 1943

Matty's Diner I (study)

1998
Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942

Oh, it's Nice to be beside the Seaside

between 1928 and 1930
Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942

Health and Wealth

1932 to 1935
Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942

La Belle Alliance

ca. 1916
On view
Walter Greaves, 1846–1930

An Artist Painting

ca. 1870
Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942

Glover's Island from Richmond Hill

1932
Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942

Telling the Tale

ca. 1914
Steven Campbell, 1953–2007

Eagles are Attracted by Disaster

1983
Sir Frank William Brangwyn, 1867–1956

Dolce far Niente

1893
Keith Vaughan, 1912–1977

Interior with Nude

1949
On view
Ellen Lanyon, 1926–2013

Bermondsey Market

1951
John Minton, 1917–1957

The Dream

ca. 1945
John Boyd, born 1957

Fantoccini (The syntax of metaphor)

undated
Helen Bradley, 1900–1979

The End of a Perfect Day

1967
Norman Black, 1920–1999

Cellist through the Window

undated
Alan Lowndes, 1921–1978

The Lone Vigil

1977
Carel Weight, 1908–1997

Evening Walk

undated
Peter Howson, born 1958

Farewell, Farewell

1995
Douglas Stannus Gray, 1890–1959

Cricket on the Green, Southwick

1953
Sir George Clausen, 1852–1944

Ancient Barn

1908
George Henry, 1858–1943

Blowing Dandelions

1890
Philip Wilson Steer, 1860–1942

Beach Scene

1891
Sir James Guthrie, 1859–1930

Street in Oban, Night

ca. 1893
William Ratcliffe, 1870–1955

Cottage Interior

1911 to 1912
Nicholas Evans, 1907–2004

Changing of the Shift

1978
Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959

The Start

ca. 1950
On view
Geoffrey Tibble, 1909–1952

Fitzroy Street (William Coldstream and Graham Bell in an Interior)

ca. 1935
Malcolm Drummond, 1880–1945

The Princess of Wales Pub, Trafalgar Square: Mrs. Francis behind the Bar

ca. 1931
Duncan Grant, 1885–1978

Two Nudes on a Beach

1928 to 1932
Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942

Beach Scene, Dieppe Sands

1920
Geoffrey Tibble, 1909–1952

The Beach

1949
Edward Atkinson Hornel, 1864–1933

Street Scene, Tokyo

1894
Edward Atkinson Hornel, 1864–1933

Flower Market, Nagasaki

1894
Maggi Hambling, born 1945

Excavations at the Royal Mint

1985
John Bratby, 1928–1992

Jean on a Step-Ladder in the Kitchen

1956
Paul-Lucien Dessau, 1909–1999

Studies of Household Cavalry seen during the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II,... [Read more]

1953
On view
Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959

Gypsy Life – The Hop Pickers

1913
Augustus Edwin John, 1878–1961

William Orpen Levitating

1897 to 1900
Henry Lamb, 1883–1960

Soldiers Resting on the March

ca. 1944
Sir Frank William Brangwyn, 1867–1956

Group of Figures

ca. 1901
Julie Roberts, born 1963

Gynæcology Chair

1994
Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin, 1870–1935

Study for Cloutsham Farm, Exmoor (`The Devon and Somerset')

1925
Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959

On the Downs

1933
Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959

Saddling Up for the Grand National, 1919: Before the Snowstorm (sketch)

1919
Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959

The French Pack at Entrée des Ecuries du Château de Chantilly

1921
On view
John Minton, 1917–1957

A Street Corner in Jamaica

1951
Frederick Hall, 1860–1948

One for sorrow

1887
unknown artist

The Wolverhampton Racecourse

1837
Jules Clarke

Dancing on Ice

2011
Sheila Girling, 1924–2015

Light Lunch

2006
Peter de Francia, 1921–2012

Vespa Couple

ca. 1963
unknown artist

Sign for a Paviour

18th century
Accessible in the Study Room
William Bowyer, 1926–2015

Cornwall

after 1948
Accessible in the Study Room
Tom Eckersley, 1914–1997

The London Museum

1963
Accessible in the Study Room
Joan Beales, born 1926

London's Museums

1955
Accessible in the Study Room
William Lee Hankey, 1869–1952

Memories

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Gwen John, 1876–1939

Nun with a Group of Orphans

ca. 1910
Accessible in the Study Room
Bill Brandt, 1904–1983

Crowded Improvised Air Raid Shelter in Liverpool Street Tube Tunnel

1940
Accessible in the Study Room
Bill Brandt, 1904–1983

Alley in Bermondsey, Ca. 1930s

ca. 1970s
Accessible in the Study Room
Joseph Edward Southall, 1861–1944

At the Cottage Gate, July 16, 1906

1906
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Clare Leighton, 1898–1989

Song of Praise to the Dead Hog
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Clare Leighton, 1898–1989

Hog Killing

1941
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011

In Horne's House

1982
Accessible in the Study Room
Lewis Morley, 1925–2013

Anti-Vietnam War Rally, Trafalgar Square

1968
Accessible in the Study Room
Lewis Morley, 1925–2013

Council of Love Contact Sheet

1970
Accessible in the Study Room
Lewis Morley, 1925–2013

Cosy Café, King's Road, Chelsea

1960s

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