• The Center is closed until further notice.
  • Virtual Tour | Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts and Crafts Movement
  • Color Our Collections | Show us your best color work!
  • Object of the Week | Edward Lear's Kangchenjunga from Darjeeling
  • Museum from Home | Take a tour on the Center's mobile app
  • Color Our Collections | Show us your best color work!
  • The Center is closed until further notice.

    As a COVID-19 precaution, the Center is closed until further notice.

    We are committed to the health, safety, and well-being of our visitors and staff.

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  • Virtual Tour | Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts and Crafts Movement

    Virtual Tour

    Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts and Crafts Movement

    Narrated by Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art at Yale

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  • Color Our Collections | Show us your best work!

    Color Our Collections

    Show us your best color work!

    Read more
  • Object of the Week | Edward Lear's Kangchenjunga from Darjeeling

    Object of the Week

    Edward Lear's Kangchenjunga from Darjeeling

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  • Museum from Home | Take a tour on the Center's mobile app

    Museum from Home

    The Center's mobile app offers an in-depth guide to works in our collection as well as information about our landmark building, designed by Louis I. Kahn. Take a tour!

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  • Color Our Collections | Show us your best color work!

    Color Our Collections

    Show us your best color work!

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EXHIBITIONS

Grolier Club, 2006), bound in 2008, leather binding with leather onlays and gold tooling, Collection of Margaret and Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, photo by Richard Caspole

FEATURED STORIES

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye standing in front of Kehinde Wiley's portrait, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Harold Shapiro

YCBA APP

Explore YCBA in a New Way with Our New App

SEARCH THE COLLECTION

William Henry Hunt, Bird's Nest with Sprays of Apple Blossoms (detail), ca. 1847, watercolor, pen and black ink, gouache, and graphite on paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

PUBLICATIONS

Richard Parminter Cuff after John Ruskin, The Dryad’s Waywardness, Plate 59, from John Ruskin, Modern Painters V, 1st ed. (London, Smith, Elder and Co.) (detail), 1860, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University

COLOR OUR COLLECTIONS

Coloring book plate (detail), after George Stubbs, Zebra, 1763, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Visitors in the Turner Bay, fourth-floor galleries, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Harold Shapiro

LONG GALLERY

Long Gallery, fourth floor, Yale Center for British Art, photograph by Richard Caspole

MUSEUM SHOP

Classic Batchel in red leather, courtesy of the Cambridge Satchel Company