Past exhibitions and programs

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"Paintings from the Reign of Victoria: The Royal Holloway Collection, London" installation, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole
Exhibitions

Paintings from the Reign of Victoria: The Royal Holloway Collection, London

Thursday, May 7–Sunday, July 26, 2009

"'Endless forms': Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts" installation, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole
Exhibitions

“Endless forms”: Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts

Thursday, February 12–Sunday, May 3, 2009

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

Benjamin West and the Venetian Secret

Thursday, September 18, 2008–Sunday, 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

Thursday, October 16, 2008–Sunday, 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

Thursday, May 22–Sunday, 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

Tuesday, June 10–Sunday, 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

Friday, March 28–Sunday, 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

Thursday, March 6–Sunday, June 1, 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

Thursday, February 7–Sunday, April 27, 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

Thursday, February 7–Sunday, 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

Thursday, September 27–Sunday, 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

Monday, November 5–Sunday, December 30, 2007

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

Andrew Forge: A Retrospective

Wednesday, May 15–Sunday, July 14, 1996

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

Short Subjects: Rare Books—Francis Bartolozzi

Tuesday, May 7–Sunday, 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

Wednesday, April 17–Sunday, June 16, 1996

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

Short Subjects: Rare Books—Sam Smith

Tuesday, March 5–Sunday, 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
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The Grosvenor Gallery: A Palace of Art in Victorian England

Saturday, March 2–Sunday, April 28, 1996

Visitors in the galleries, Yale Center for British Art, photo by © Elizabeth Felicella / ESTO
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The Reformation of the Bible/The Bible of the Reformation

Saturday, February 3–Sunday, April 7, 1996