• The Center is closed until further notice.
  • Community | Free water for Black Lives Matter demonstrators
  • Announcement | Director's message
  • Featured Spotify Playlist | Rebecca Salter
  • Object of the Week | Sarah Morris's ADNOC
  • Color Our Collections | Show us your best color work!
  • Featured Video | Radical Victorians in Art and Music
  • Museum from Home | Take a tour on the Center's mobile app
  • Virtual Tour | Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts and Crafts Movement
  • 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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  • Community | Free water for Black Lives Matter demonstrators

    Community

    Black lives matter.

    We support you.
    Free water at the Center.

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  • Announcement | Director's message

    Announcement

    Director's message

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  • Featured Spotify Playlist | Rebecca Salter

    Featured Spotify Playlist

    Rebecca Salter

    Artist and President of the Royal Academy of Arts in London

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  • Object of the Week | Sarah Morris's ADNOC

    Object of the Week

    Sarah Morris's ADNOC

    Acquired through the John F. O'Brien Fund

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

    Color Our Collections

    Show us your best color work!

    Read more
  • Featured Video | Radical Victorians in Art and Music

    Featured Video

    Radical Victorians in Art and Music

    Soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Yale BA 2010, and pianist Ryan McCullough

    Introduction by Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor in the History of Art Department at Yale

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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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  • 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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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