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| Yale
Center for British Art |
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| British
paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, and rare books from the sixteenth
century to the present |
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Yale Center for British Art is both a public museum and a research
institute. It houses the most comprehensive collection of British
paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, and rare books outside Great
Britain. Given to the University by the late Paul Mellon (Yale Class
of 1929), the collection contains masterpieces by the leading artists
who worked in Britain from the sixteenth century to the present, including
Hogarth, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Stubbs, Constable, Turner, and Bonington.
The Center also boasts rich holdings of British sporting art, marine
painting, and paintings by nineteenth-century artists. Modern and
contemporary British art have been growing strengths, and works by
painters of the Camden Town School and the Bloomsbury Group are especially
well represented. The prints and drawings collection offers a comprehensive
view of the development of British graphic art, with an emphasis on
the flowering of the British watercolor school. Other areas of interest
include arch-itectural drawings, topographical prints, caricatures,
and mezzotint portraits. The collection of rare books and archives
contains material relating to the visual arts and cultural life in
the United Kingdom and former British Empire from the seventeenth
through the end of the nineteenth century, with particular strengths
in illustrated “color-plate” books, sporting books and
manuscripts, early maps and atlases, and archival material relating
to British artists of all periods. The Center’s reference library
includes materials in a variety of formats supporting the study of
British art and related fields including architecture, history, literature,
and the performing arts. The photo archive, located within the reference
library, consists of over 200,000 black-and-white photographs of British
art worldwide. The Center offers a limited number of short-term resident
fellowships to scholars in postdoctoral or equivalent research whose
projects relate directly to the Center’s collections. Applications
are also welcomed from museum professionals whose responsibilities
and research interests involve British art. The deadline is January
15 for awards beginning July 1 of the same year. |
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Center for British Art, |
| New
Haven, Connecticut |
| Director |
| Yale
Center for British Art |
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Box 208280 |
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Haven, CCT 06520-8280 |
| Tel: (203)
432-2850 |
| Fax:
(203) 432-9628 |
| E-mail:
bacinfo@yale.edu |
| Website:
http://www.yale.edu/ycba |
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