Past exhibitions and programs

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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, Camp 3 Mile 75 from Heraclitus III: 7 Days on the Colorado (detail), 2017, watercolor and mixed media, Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist through the Foster Art & Wilderness Foundation
Exhibitions

Tony Foster: Watercolor Diaries, Cornwall to Colorado

May 30–August 25, 2019

Edward Lear, Plains of Bengal, from above Siligoree (detail), 1874, watercolor, pen and brown ink, and gouache on paper, Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968
Exhibitions

Art in Focus: Blue

April 5–August 11, 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

Print made by John Martin, The Deluge (detail), 1828, mezzotint with etching; engraver's proof on paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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

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

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Charles Stanhope, third Earl of Harrington (detail), 1782, oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Exhibitions

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

October 2–December 14, 2014

Bolton, James, Collection of drawings depicting specimens from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne (detail), ca. 1768, watercolor and gouache over graphite on parchment. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993–2013)
Exhibitions

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

May 15–August 10, 2014

Rebecca Salter, Bethany Square 6 (detail), 2003, mixed media on white wove paper mounted on aluminum, Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund, © Rebecca Salter
Exhibitions

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

February 3–May 1, 2011

John Hoyland, Tiger Walk (detail), acrylic on cotton duck, 1981, Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie, © Estate of the Artist
Exhibitions

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

September 16, 2010–January 2, 2011

Edward Young, The Complaint, or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality (detail), London, Printed for A. Millar and R. and J. Dodsley, 1756, vellum boards with wax resist dyed leather straps, secured with copper staples, Collection of the artist, photo by David Wood
Exhibitions

Structured Elegance: Bookbindings and Jewelry by Romilly Saumarez Smith

June 24–September 19, 2010

John Scarlett Davis, The Interior of the British Institution Gallery (detail), 1829, oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Exhibitions

Seeing Double: Portraits, Copies, and Exhibitions in 1820s London

June 24–September 19, 2010

Print made by Austin Cooper, Lowestoft (detail), 1932, lithograph mounted on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965
Exhibitions

Art for All: British Posters for Transport

May 27–August 15, 2010