Past exhibitions and programs

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Damien Hirst, In and Out of Love (Butterfly Paintings and Ashtrays) (detail), 1991, © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved / DACS, London / ARS, NY 2020
Exhibitions

Love, Life, Death, and Desire: An Installation of the Center’s Collections

October 1, 2020–March 14, 2021

George Kirkpatrick, designer and binder of The Neale M. Albert Collection of Miniature Designer Bindings; A Catalog of an Exhibition Held at the Grolier Club, September 13–November 4, 2006, by Neale M. Albert (New York: Grolier Club, 2006) (detail), bound in 2008, leather binding with leather onlays and gold tooling, Collection of Margaret and Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, photo by Richard Caspole
Exhibitions

Contemporary Designer Bookbindings from The Collection of Neale and Margaret Albert

January 16, 2019–November 29, 2020

Victorian Radicals installation, third-floor galleries, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole
Exhibitions

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

February 13–May 10, 2020

"Peterloo and Protest" installation, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole
Exhibitions

Peterloo and Protest

August 16–December 15, 2019

The Hilton Als Series: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye installation, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole, © Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Exhibitions

The Hilton Als Series: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

September 12–December 15, 2019

"Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin" installation, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole
Exhibitions

Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin

September 5–December 8, 2019

"Tony Foster: Watercolor Diaries, Cornwall to Colorado" installation, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole
Exhibitions

Tony Foster: Watercolor Diaries, Cornwall to Colorado

May 30–August 25, 2019

"Eileen Hogan: Personal Geographies" installation, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole, © Eileen Hogan
Exhibitions

Eileen Hogan: Personal Geographies

May 9–August 11, 2019

"Art in Focus: Blue" installation, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole
Exhibitions

Art in Focus: Blue

April 5–August 11, 2019

"Before the Deluge: Apocalyptic Floodscapes from John Martin to John Goto, 1789 to Now" installation, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole
Exhibitions

Before the Deluge: Apocalyptic Floodscapes from John Martin to John Goto, 1789 to Now

December 18, 2018–March 24, 2019

George Shaw: A Corner of a Foreign Field installation, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole
Exhibitions

George Shaw: A Corner of a Foreign Field

October 4–December 30, 2018

Enlightened Princesses installation, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole
Exhibitions

Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World

February 2–April 30, 2017

"Spreading Canvas: Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting" installation, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole
Exhibitions

Spreading Canvas: Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting

September 15–December 4, 2016

Neale Albert with Works of William Shakespeare, 40 vols. (London: Allied Newspapers, 1904), bound by Jana Pribíková, 2005
Exhibitions

“The Poet of Them All”: William Shakespeare and Miniature Designer Bindings from the Collection of Neale and Margaret Albert

June 16–August 21, 2016

"Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain" installation, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole
Exhibitions

Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain

October 2–December 14, 2014

“Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower”: Artists’ Books and the Natural World installation, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole
Exhibitions

“Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower”: Artists’ Books and the Natural World

May 15–August 10, 2014

"'into the light of things': Rebecca Salter, works 1981–2010" installation, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole
Exhibitions

“into the light of things”: Rebecca Salter, works 1981–2010

February 3–May 1, 2011

"The Independent Eye: Contemporary British Art from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie" installation, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole
Exhibitions

The Independent Eye: Contemporary British Art from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie

September 16, 2010–January 2, 2011