This series of thematic presentations by the YCBA Student Guides will reframe selected works from the museum's collection.
The YCBA Student Guides have produced a series of video presentations titled “Reframed.” The videos offer the guides’ insights about selected works from the museum’s collection, sharing their perspectives as undergraduate students and drawing from their training and experience leading tours of the collection at the Yale Center for British Art and the Yale University Art Gallery while the exhibition In a New Light was on view.
Spring 2024
Aengus Cox, Morse ’26: “More than Meets the Eye: Imagination and Recollection in British Art”
Aengus will explore how artists subvert the viewer's expectations in three works by Ford Madox Brown—The English Boy (1860), The Irish Girl (1860), and Work (1863)—and Joseph Wright of Derby's The Blacksmith's Shop (1771).
Taehyeong Ko, Timothy Dwight ’26: “Francis Danby: A Reflection of Life’s Misgivings”
In this reflection on the life of Irish painter Francis Danby, Taehyeong will explore how circumstances impacted the artist's work.
Cleo Maloney, Silliman ’25: “William Blake’s Visualizations of Eighteenth-Century London in ‘Songs of Innocence and of Experience’”
Cleo will examine William Blake's illuminated poetry to see how the radical poet and printmaker represents industrialization, the state of European politics, and the British empire contained within the city of London.
Michelle Medawar, Jonathan Edwards ’24: “Visit the Empire: Canada, Wilderness, and the British Imagination”
Michelle's tour will analyze how Canada was framed in the British imagination as “wilderness” in service of empire-building by looking at prints from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries.
Collin Robinson, Timothy Dwight ’24: “Uncovering Queer Narratives in Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Britain”
Collin will focus on the works of Frederic Leighton and Henry Scott Tuke to challenge traditional narratives of prudishness associated with the era and unveil a vibrant tapestry of sexual expression, artistic rebellion, and societal norms.
Hailey Talbert, Grace Hopper ’27: “Chasing Tides: The Practice of Plein-Air Painting”
Hailey will compare and contrast the plein-air painting practices of John Constable and Winslow Homer.
Daniela Woldenberg, Pauli Murray ’27: “What’s in a Look?: Exploring Glances and Relationships in British Portraiture”
Daniela will discuss Francis Bacon's Study of a Head (1952), Ford Madox Brown's The Irish Girl (1860), William Hogarth's The Beggar's Opera (1729), and Benjamin West's The Artist and His Family (ca. 1772), unpacking the figures and the story behind each piece.
