Work Type: painting / Image Use: Under Certain Circumstances / Subject Terms: abstract art

1. May 64 (Kepler)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1964
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and wash on board
Dimensions:: 21 1/4 x 19 3/8 inches (54 x 49.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Jan 20 1948 (still life, Newlyn)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1948
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas, laid on board
Dimensions:: 31 3/4 x 20 1/4 inches (80.6 x 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. May 1955 (Gwithian)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1955
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 3/4 x 41 3/4 inches (106 x 106 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. September 1960 (wood)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1960
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on plywood
Dimensions:: 13 x 16 15/16 inches (33 x 43 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. 1951 (still life – sweet peas)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1951
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and oil on board
Dimensions:: 8 1/16 x 10 inches (20.5 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. 1969 (composition)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1969
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on masonite relief
Dimensions:: 24 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches (62.2 x 72.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Solomon A. Smith II, Solomon Byron Smith and Barbara Neff Smith Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. 1969 (winter blue)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1969
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on masonite relief
Dimensions:: 32 5/8 x 33 inches (82.9 x 83.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. February 1957 (brown and grey)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1957
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and graphite on panel
Dimensions:: 8 × 7 inches (20.3 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. February 1961 (Galileo)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1961
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and pencil on carved board
Dimensions:: 27 x 33 1/2 inches (68.6 x 85.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. July 15 1949 (St Ives harbour)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1949
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and pencil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 7/8 x 15 7/8 inches (35.2 x 40.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. April 1950 (goblets)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1950
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and pencil on wood
Dimensions:: Mount: 16 x 19 1/2 inches (40.6 x 49.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Louise P. Stanton
On View:: Not on view

12. 1934 (still life)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1934
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and pencil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 1/4 x 15 inches (28.6 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. 1938 (composition)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1938
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache on board
Dimensions:: 19 5/8 x 26 3/4 inches (49.8 x 67.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. August 1963 (two mugs, one blue)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: August 1963
Materials & Techniques:: Relief painting
Dimensions:: 18 1/2 × 23 7/8 inches (47 × 60.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. 1929 (still life)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: 1929, reworked 1935
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and pencil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 1/2 x 32 1/2 inches (67.3 x 82.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. Gynæcology Chair

Creator:: Julie Roberts, born 1963
Date:: 1994
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:: 60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

17. Apotheosis

Creator:: Sir Sidney Nolan, 1917–1992
Date:: 1953
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 36 x 48 inches (91.4 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
On View:: Not on view

18. Passchendaele 1

Creator:: John Walker, born 1939
Date:: 1996
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 108 x 192 inches (274.3 x 487.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

19. Fort Blox, 1972

Creator:: Michael Challenger, born 1939
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 x 60 inches (121.9 x 152.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Richard H. Ullman
On View:: Not on view

20. No. 3, 1957

Creator:: John Wells, 1907–2000
Date:: 1957
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 6 x 28 inches (15.2 x 71.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
On View:: Not on view

21. Cornish Landscape

Creator:: John Minton, 1917–1957
Date:: 1946
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
On View:: Not on view

22. Abstract Landscape (Dark Fir Shoreham II Morning)

Creator:: Alan Reynolds, 1926–2014
Date:: ca. 1952
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 40 1/8 × 30 1/8 inches (101.9 × 76.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
On View:: Not on view

23. Transformation of Red

Creator:: John Tunnard, 1900–1971
Date:: 1939
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 13 3/4 x 26 inches (34.9 x 66 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

24. Thread

Creator:: Peter Nadin, born 1954
Date:: 1993
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 90 × 70 inches (228.6 × 177.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Given by the Friends of British Art at Yale
On View:: Not on view

25. John MacLeod

Creator:: Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957
Date:: 1938
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 20 inches (76.2 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

26. Tree of Life (Clair)

Creator:: Andrew Forge, 1923–2002
Date:: between 1987 and 1989
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 46 x 58 inches (116.8 x 147.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Given by the Artist
On View:: Not on view

27. Painting, Summer 1963

Creator:: Roger Hilton, 1911–1975
Date:: 1963
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 55 1/2 x 64 1/4 inches (141 x 163.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

28. "Over Here, Over There"

Creator:: Robyn Denny, 1930–2014
Date:: 1982 to 1983
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:: 96 x 78 inches (243.8 x 198.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift from the Collection of Doreen Gehry Nelson
On View:: Not on view

29. Linen Blue and Yellow

Creator:: Sir Terry Frost, 1915–2003
Date:: 1961
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and collage on canvas
Dimensions:: 76 x 48 inches (193 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Purchased with contributions from the following Friends of British Art: Joan and Bugs Baer; Louise and David G. Carter; Lee MacCormick Edwards; Christopher Forbes; Alison P. Henning; Rose and Larry Hughes; Gale and Bernard Kosto; Elaine and Melvin Merians; Claire and Millard Pryor; Alison and Ross D. Siragusa, Jr.; Ira Spanierman; Liz and Bill Tower; George Weiss; Nicolette Wernick; Miriam M. and Charles O. Wood, III
On View:: Not on view

30. Flighted Ones

Creator:: Gillian Ayres, 1930–2018
Date:: 1995
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 96 1/16 x 84 inches (244 x 213.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

31. Exposed Arm

Creator:: Tony Bevan, born 1951
Date:: 1987
Materials & Techniques:: Pigment and acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:: 87 1/2 x 62 inches (222.3 x 157.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Natalie H. and George T. Lee Jr., Yale BA 1957, in honor of Patrick McCaughey
On View:: Not on view

32. In Memoriam: Rupert Brooke

Creator:: Duncan Grant, 1885–1978
Date:: 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and collage on panel
Dimensions:: 21 9/16 x 11 3/4 inches (54.8 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

33. Landscape No. 326

Creator:: John Virtue, born 1947
Date:: between 1996 and 1997
Materials & Techniques:: Ink, acrylic, and shellac on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 x 48 inches (91.4 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
On View:: Not on view

34. Key Ring

Creator:: Richard Smith, 1931–2016
Date:: ca. 1985
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas with metal supports
Dimensions:: 78 × 81 inches (198.1 × 205.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Monique Goldstrom - Giamfranco Caiazzo Family
On View:: Not on view

35. Forecast

Creator:: John Tunnard, 1900–1971
Date:: 1945
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on gesso-prepared board
Dimensions:: 24 x 22 3/4 inches (61 x 57.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
On View:: Not on view

36. Blowing Dandelions

Creator:: George Henry, 1858–1943
Date:: 1890
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches (49.5 x 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

37. Concluding 8

Creator:: Stephen Buckley, born 1944
Date:: 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Liquitex on canvas
Dimensions:: 80 x 69 inches (203.2 x 175.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara Gladstone
On View:: Not on view

38. Three Cadmiums

Creator:: Patrick Heron, 1920–1999
Date:: 1966
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 60 x 72 inches (152.4 x 182.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

39. Dyadic Encounter

Creator:: Desmond Morris, born 1928
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 x 30 inches (50.8 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia and Nathan Shippee
On View:: Not on view

40. Garden No. 1

Creator:: John Hubbard, 1931–2017
Date:: 1983
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: 43 x 45 inches (109.2 x 114.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Hubbard
On View:: Not on view

41. Dark Forest

Creator:: Ivon Hitchens, 1893–1979
Date:: 1962
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 x 52 inches (53.3 x 132.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

42. 1989 J. 11 (Ursus)

Creator:: John Golding, 1929–2012
Date:: 1989
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic on cotton duck
Dimensions:: 64 x 88 inches (162.6 x 223.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Given by the Friends of British Art at Yale, 1989-90
On View:: Not on view

43. Marsh Landscape - Winter

Creator:: Denis Wirth-Miller, 1915–2010
Date:: 1958
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 7/8 x 35 7/8 inches (91.1 x 91.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
On View:: Not on view

44. 5.2.67

Creator:: John Hoyland, 1934–2011
Date:: 1967
Materials & Techniques:: Acrylic on cotton duck
Dimensions:: 72 x 120 inches (182.9 x 304.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

45. Penwith

Creator:: Peter Lanyon, 1918–1964
Date:: 1948
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 8 1/2 x 20 3/4 inches (21.6 x 52.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
On View:: Not on view

46. Orange on Top

Creator:: Trevor Bell, 1930–2017
Date:: 1959
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 x 36 inches (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

47. Mountain Road near Platres, Cyprus

Creator:: David Bomberg, 1890–1957
Date:: 1948
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 x 30in. (66 x 76.2cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
On View:: Not on view

48. The Painting of Janet Churchman

Creator:: John Bratby, 1928–1992
Date:: 1958
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on masonite
Dimensions:: 79 x 146 inches (200.7 x 370.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kathleen and Joseph D. Policano
On View:: Not on view

49. June 1958

Creator:: John Wells, 1907–2000
Date:: 1958
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 12 5/8 x 10 5/8 inches (32.1 x 27 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
On View:: Not on view

50. Night Flowering

Creator:: John Wells, 1907–2000
Date:: 1957
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas board
Dimensions:: 11 7/16 x 8 7/8 inches (29.1 x 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
On View:: Not on view

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1. May 64 (Kepler)

2. Jan 20 1948 (still life, Newlyn)

3. May 1955 (Gwithian)

4. September 1960 (wood)

5. 1951 (still life – sweet peas)

6. 1969 (composition)

7. 1969 (winter blue)

8. February 1957 (brown and grey)

9. February 1961 (Galileo)

10. July 15 1949 (St Ives harbour)

11. April 1950 (goblets)

12. 1934 (still life)

13. 1938 (composition)

14. August 1963 (two mugs, one blue)

15. 1929 (still life)

16. Gynæcology Chair

17. Apotheosis

18. Passchendaele 1

19. Fort Blox, 1972

20. No. 3, 1957

21. Cornish Landscape

22. Abstract Landscape (Dark Fir Shoreham II Morning)

23. Transformation of Red

24. Thread

25. John MacLeod

26. Tree of Life (Clair)

27. Painting, Summer 1963

28. "Over Here, Over There"

29. Linen Blue and Yellow

30. Flighted Ones

31. Exposed Arm

32. In Memoriam: Rupert Brooke

33. Landscape No. 326

34. Key Ring

35. Forecast

36. Blowing Dandelions

37. Concluding 8

38. Three Cadmiums

39. Dyadic Encounter

40. Garden No. 1

41. Dark Forest

42. 1989 J. 11 (Ursus)

43. Marsh Landscape - Winter

44. 5.2.67

45. Penwith

46. Orange on Top

47. Mountain Road near Platres, Cyprus

48. The Painting of Janet Churchman

49. June 1958

50. Night Flowering