Past exhibitions and programs

Day With(out) Art

Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 11:00 am–4 pm

Sir Joshua Reynolds RA, "Mrs. Robinson (detail)," ca. 1784, oil on canvas, recto and x-radiograph, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

at home: Art in Context | Sir Joshua Reynolds: Use and Reuse

Tuesday, November 30, 2021, 12:30 pm–1 pm

Maria Balshaw, photo by Holly Matthews

at home: Paul Mellon Lectures | Maria Balshaw

Wednesday, November 24, 2021, 12–1 pm

Iwona Blazwick, photo by Christa Holka

at home: Paul Mellon Lectures | Iwona Blazwick

Wednesday, November 17, 2021, 12–1 pm

Harold Gilman, "Sylvia Darning," 1917, oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

at home: Digital Docents | The Painted Room

Thursday, November 11, 2021, 12–12:30 pm

Thelma Golden, photo by Julie Skarratt

at home: Paul Mellon Lectures | Thelma Golden

Wednesday, November 10, 2021, 12–1 pm

Kaywin Feldman, photo © National Gallery of Art

at home: Paul Mellon Lectures | Kaywin Feldman

Wednesday, November 3, 2021, 12–1 pm

Commonplace book, ca.1830, pen and ink with watercolor and gouache over graphite, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

at home: Art in Context | Commonplace Books

Tuesday, November 2, 2021, 12:30 pm–1 pm

Henry Robert Morland, "Woman Reading by a Paper-Bell Shade" (detail), 1766, oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

at home: Digital Docents | Women and Reading in Art: Selected Images from the Yale Center for British Art

Thursday, October 28, 2021, 12–12:30 pm

Barbara Walker, "The Big Secret II" (detail), 2015, Conté crayon, Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund © Barbara Walker

at home: Art in Context | Barbara Walker's "Shock and Awe": History, Memory, and the Archive as Art Practice

Tuesday, October 26, 2021, 12:30 pm–1 pm

Moses Quiquine, photo by Moses Fuad

at home: Artists in Conversation | Moses Quiquine

Friday, October 22, 2021, 12–1 pm

Gabriele Finaldi, photo © The National Gallery, London

at home: Paul Mellon Lectures | Gabriele Finaldi

Wednesday, October 20, 2021, 12–1 pm

Rachel Whiteread, courtesy of the artist and Gagosian

at home: Artists in Conversation | Rachel Whiteread

Friday, October 15, 2021, 12–1 pm

Joy Gregory, Autoportrait (detail), 2006, giclée print, Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund, © Joy Gregory

Art in Focus: Women From the Center

Thursday, January 14, 2021–Sunday, October 10, 2021

Compilation of program participants' work, The View from Here, Yale Center for British Art

The View From Here

Monday, August 16, 2021–Sunday, October 10, 2021

Peter Doig, photo by Rain Riyahi

at home: Artists in Conversation | Peter Doig

Friday, October 1, 2021, 12–1 pm

Joseph Wright of Derby, Vesuvius from Posillipo, ca. 1788, oil on panel, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

at home: Digital Docents | George Stubbs and Joseph Wright of Derby: The Horse Painter and the House Painter

Thursday, September 30, 2021, 12–12:30 pm

Print made by James Basire after Frederick Mackenzie, Vol. 6, Plate XXVI: Chapel of St Stephen, Chapel of St Mary in the Vaults (detail), 1842, Engraving on paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

at home: Art in Context | Illustrating Archaeological Context

Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 12:30 pm–1 pm