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Constable, John, 1776–1837 2
Bell, Trevor, 1930–2017 1
Clausen, George Sir, 1852–1944 1
Cohen, Bernard, born 1933 1
Gilman, Harold John Wilde, 1876–1919 1
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painting (technique) 10
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landscape 5
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contrast 11

light 4
abstract art 3
clouds 3
landscape 3
boys 2
brushstrokes 2
children 2
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girls 2
meteorology 2
ribbon 2
science 2
texture 2
town 2
window 2
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anvil (tool) 1
apprentices 1
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art 1
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basket 1
beggar 1
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England 3
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London 2
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Hampstead Heath 1
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De Karlowska, Stanislawa (1876–1952), British painter 1

Exhibition History

In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 4
20th Century Paintings and Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 3
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05) 3
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15) 3
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06) 3
Bloomsbury Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-05-20 - 2000-09-03) 2
Figuring Women - The Female in Modern British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-03-28 - 2008-06-08) 2
Revisiting Traditions [BAC 20th century painting & sculpture] (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-04-30 - 2005-05-18) 2
Art in Focus : St Ives Abstraction (Yale Center for British Art, 2013-04-12 - 2013-09-29) 1
Art, Artifact, Artifice (Yale University Art Gallery, 2020-02-14 - 2021-03-15) 1
Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth (The Art Institute of Chicago, 2009-02-15 - 2009-05-10) 1
Below Stairs - The Servant (National Portrait Gallery, 2003-10-01 - 2004-02-14) 1
Below Stairs - The Servant (Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 2004-02-27 - 2004-05-31) 1
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 1
Crafting Worldviews: European Instruments of Art and Science from Yale University (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-02-17 - 2023-06-25) 1
Great British Paintings from American Collections: Holbein to Hockney (The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2002-02-01 - 2002-05-05) 1
Great British Paintings from American Collections: Holbein to Hockney (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-12-30) 1
In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03) 1
Jardins (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2017-03-13 - 2017-07-23) 1
John Constable - A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1969-04-30 - 1969-11-01) 1
Joseph Wright of Derby (Musée du Louvre, 1990-05-17 - 1990-07-23) 1
Joseph Wright of Derby (Tate Britain, 1990-02-07 - 1990-04-22) 1
Joseph Wright of Derby (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990-09-06 - 1990-12-02) 1
Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool (Walker Art Gallery, 2007-11-17 - 2008-02-24) 1
Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-05-22 - 2008-08-30) 1
Paul Nash (Tate Britain, 2016-10-26 - 2017-03-05) 1
Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-06-20 - 2019-09-08) 1
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26) 1

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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc. 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Terrence D. Curley in Memory of Olga M. Waisanen 1

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On view
John Constable, 1776–1837

Cloud Study

ca. 1821
On view
Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797

The Blacksmith's Shop

1771
On view
Sir George Clausen, 1852–1944

Schoolgirls

1880
On view
Harold Gilman, 1876–1919

Stanislawa de Karlowska

ca. 1913
John Constable, 1776–1837

Extensive Landscape with Grey Clouds

ca. 1821
Bernard Cohen, born 1933

Crown

1964
Emily Mary Osborn, 1828–1925

The Governess

1860
Trevor Bell, 1930–2017

Orange on Top

1959
Paul Nash, 1889–1946

Mineral Objects

1935
Frederick Nash, 1782–1856

London from Hampstead Heath

ca. 1825
Accessible in the Study Room
Michael Kenna, born 1953

Lace Factories, Study 37, Calais, France

1999

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