Past exhibitions and programs

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"Benjamin West and the Venetian Secret" installation, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole
Exhibitions

Benjamin West and the Venetian Secret

September 18, 2008–January 4, 2009

"Sun, Wind, and Rain: The Art of David Cox" installation, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole
Exhibitions

Sun, Wind, and Rain: The Art of David Cox

October 16, 2008–January 4, 2009

"Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool" installation, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole
Exhibitions

Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool

May 22–August 31, 2008

"Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection" installation, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole
Exhibitions

Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection

June 10–August 17, 2008

Dame (Jocelyn) Barbara Hepworth, Four Rectangles with Four Oblique Circles (detail), 1966, slate, Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Susan Morse Hilles, © Bowness
Exhibitions

Art in Focus: Figuring Women: The Female in Modern British Art

March 28–June 8, 2008

"A New World: England’s First View of America" installation, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole
Exhibitions

A New World: England’s First View of America

March 6–June 1, 2008

"The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting, 1830–1925" installation, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole
Exhibitions

The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting, 1830–1925

February 7–April 27, 2008

"Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, 1600–1830" installation, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole
Exhibitions

Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, 1600–1830

February 7–April 27, 2008

"Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds" installation, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole
Exhibitions

Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds

September 27–December 30, 2007

Ori Gersht, Blow UP #4 (detail), 2007, c-print mounted to acrylic, courtesy the artist and CRG Gallery, New York
Exhibitions

Works by Ori Gersht

November 5–December 30, 2007

Visitors in the galleries, Yale Center for British Art, photo by © Elizabeth Felicella / ESTO
Exhibitions

Andrew Forge: A Retrospective

May 15–July 14, 1996

Visitors in the galleries, Yale Center for British Art, photo by © Elizabeth Felicella / ESTO
Exhibitions

Short Subjects: Rare Books—Francis Bartolozzi

May 7–July 7, 1996

Edward Lear, Nice from the Genoa Road (detail), 1865, watercolor with pen and brown ink over graphite on paper, Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Elizabeth S. Tower
Exhibitions

Elizabeth S. Tower Collection of British Drawings and Watercolors

April 17–June 16, 1996

Visitors in the galleries, Yale Center for British Art, photo by © Elizabeth Felicella / ESTO
Exhibitions

Short Subjects: Rare Books—Sam Smith

March 5–May 5, 1996

Alfred Joseph Woolmer, Interior of the British Institution (Old Master Exhibition, Summer 1832) (detail), 1833, oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Exhibitions

The Grosvenor Gallery: A Palace of Art in Victorian England

March 2–April 28, 1996

Visitors in the galleries, Yale Center for British Art, photo by © Elizabeth Felicella / ESTO
Exhibitions

The Reformation of the Bible/The Bible of the Reformation

February 3–April 7, 1996

Visitors in the galleries, Yale Center for British Art, photo by © Elizabeth Felicella / ESTO
Exhibitions

Short Subjects: Rare Books—Owen Jones

January 9–March 3, 1996

Visitors in the galleries, Yale Center for British Art, photo by © Elizabeth Felicella / ESTO
Exhibitions

Contemporary British Printmaking: The Paragon Press, 1986–1995

December 2, 1995–February 4, 1996