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Human-Made Object
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drawing
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Drawing & Watercolor
A Man Leaning on a Staff
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Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
B2007.1
Not on view
Yale Center for British Art
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22 7/8 × 18 1/4 × 2 inches (58.1 × 46.4 × 5.1 cm)
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Thomas Frye, 1710–1762, Irish
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Thamas Frye
Theodore Frye
Thomas Frye
Frye Thomas, 1710–1762
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A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)
946
https://britishart.yale.edu/node/461
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exhibition
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
Yale Center for British Art
BAC
YCBA
British Art Center
1977
0
2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13
2017-06-01
2017-08-13
Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
300435424
The Yale Center for British Art first opened to the public in April 1977. In celebration of this fortieth anniversary, a suite of exhibitions showcased the most recent additions to the Center’s exceptional collection of British art. Offering visitors a behind-the-scenes look at the growth and evolution of the collection, the displays featured several groupings of newly acquired works—some organized thematically, others focused on specific artists, such as the abstract painter John Golding, and some highlighting individual gifts to the Center, including from the institution’s founder, Paul Mellon (Yale College, Class of 1929). — —
Mr. Mellon’s final gifts to the Center were largely intimate, personal objects with which he and his wife Rachel Lambert Mellon enjoyed living, and many of which she possessed until her death in 2014. They ranged from James Seymour’s The Chaise Match Run on Newmarket Heath on Wednesday the 29th of August 1750 (1750) to a group of eight paintings by the pre-eminent British modernist Ben Nicholson, which augmented the Center’s existing collection of eight works by the artist originally assembled by Mr. Mellon. Gifts from other significant donors, such as Joseph McCrindle and Brian Sewell, were also featured. Highlights from the McCrindle and Sewell bequests included paintings and drawings by Augustus John, fashionable society portraits by Sir William Orpen and Glyn Warren Philpot, and a number of works by the landscape and still-life painter Eliot Hodgkin. — —
Other exhibitions were thematic, focusing on childhood and education, war and conflict, and the natural world. The works here were chosen primarily from recent additions to the Center’s collection of rare books and manuscripts. Among the objects on display included an early map sampler (1806) by a nine-year-old girl; a manuscript by a French naval officer who took part in the Battle of Trafalgar (1805); a Second World War silk escape map; a rare early sciagraph (X-ray) of a lizard from a series of images of British reptiles (1897); and a number of works by contemporary artists, such as Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman, whose portfolio of cyanotype prints (Natural History, 2014) was inspired by the work of the nineteenth-century naturalist Anna Atkins. — —
A display of modern and contemporary prints featured two outstanding print portfolios shown in their entirety for the first time at the Center—Shadow IV (2011), by Anish Kapoor, and Thirty Pieces of Silver (2015), by Cornelia Parker, as well as prints by Richard Hamilton and other exponents of British pop art. — —
Some of the most important additions to the Center’s outstanding collection of historic British drawings, including masterpieces in watercolor by Thomas Girtin and David Cox, were showcased in another section. — —
Known as an outstanding teacher, writer, and curator, John Golding was first and foremost a painter. The display John Golding: From the Artist’s Estate drew extensively on the rich gift of his work to the Center that charts his journey from figurative art to abstraction.
Objects that document the experience of British India were also highlighted here. Works by both British and Indian artists provided a visual record of the subcontinent for British and continental audiences. — —
Works in pastel have been a collecting focus of the Center in recent years. This exhibition brought together pastel portraits, with more unusual uses of the medium in landscape and in copying old master paintings. Other portraits, studies for portraits, and portrait miniatures in a variety of graphic media were on display, including works by Sir Peter Lely and Sir Thomas Lawrence.
Over the last decade, the Center’s photographic holdings have grown dramatically through gift and purchase. On view were works from pioneering British photographer Roger Fenton to twentieth-century photographers Bill Brandt, Cecil Beaton, Lewis Morley, and contemporary artist Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA). — —
Credits — —
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions was curated by Elisabeth Fairman, Chief Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts; Matthew Hargraves, Chief Curator of Art Collections; Lars Kokkonen, Assistant Curator of Paintings and Sculpture; and Sarah Welcome, Assistant Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts; under the direction of Scott Wilcox, Deputy Director for Collections.
Yale Center for British Art
Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool (Walker Art Gallery, 2007-11-17 - 2008-02-24)
622
https://britishart.yale.edu/node/648
300054766
exhibition
Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool
Yale Center for British Art
Walker Art Gallery
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Walker Art Gallery
National Museums Liverpool
0
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2007-11-17
2008-02-24
Walker Art Gallery
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Walker Art Gallery
Liverpool
7010597
Liverpool
300435424
Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797) is one of the most significant and admired British artists of the eighteenth century. Prized by his contemporaries for the originality of his “candlelight” paintings, Wright was also a distinguished portraitist. From 1768 to 1771 he lived and worked in Liverpool, then Britain’s fastest-growing port and a burgeoning cultural and economic center. Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool was the first major exhibition to focus on Wright’s creative development in that important provincial artistic center. — —
The exhibition also provided a look at the city during a period of economic expansion and political change. Wright’s arrival in Liverpool marked a turning point in the development of the artistic culture of the metropolis—a true “Dawn of Taste.” At the time, Liverpool was characterized by its extraordinarily mobile population, its commercial expansion, and its uneasy involvement with the slave trade, which made many of its merchants’ fortunes. Wright’s highly realistic style was well suited to this environment, and demand for his portraits led him to complete one, on average, every ten days. Wright’s success in Liverpool made him the first great British artist to establish a career largely outside London. — —
The exhibition featured approximately eighty-five works of art, including nearly fifty paintings and drawings by Wright, as well as works by his circle of friends and pupils in the city. — —
Venues — —
Walker Art Gallery: — —
November 17, 2007–February 24, 2008 — —
Yale Center for British Art: — —
May 22–August 31, 2008 — —
Credits — —
Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool was co-organized by the Center and the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. It was curated by Elizabeth E. Barker (Yale BA 1992), Director and Chief Curator of the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, and Alex Kidson, Curator of British Art at the Walker Art Gallery. At the Center, Julia Marciari Alexander, Associate Director for Exhibitions and Publications, and Eleanor Hughes, Assistant Curator for Exhibitions and Publications, served as the organizing curators. The exhibition coincided with a two-year celebration of Liverpool’s cultural heritage, the 800th anniversary of its charter in 2007, and its status as European Capital of Culture in 2008.
Yale Center for British Art
Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-05-22 - 2008-08-30)
622
https://britishart.yale.edu/node/648
300054766
exhibition
Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
Yale Center for British Art
BAC
YCBA
British Art Center
1977
0
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Borrower
2008-05-22 - 2008-08-30
2008-05-22
2008-08-30
Yale Center for British Art
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
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Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
300435424
Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797) is one of the most significant and admired British artists of the eighteenth century. Prized by his contemporaries for the originality of his “candlelight” paintings, Wright was also a distinguished portraitist. From 1768 to 1771 he lived and worked in Liverpool, then Britain’s fastest-growing port and a burgeoning cultural and economic center. Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool was the first major exhibition to focus on Wright’s creative development in that important provincial artistic center. — —
The exhibition also provided a look at the city during a period of economic expansion and political change. Wright’s arrival in Liverpool marked a turning point in the development of the artistic culture of the metropolis—a true “Dawn of Taste.” At the time, Liverpool was characterized by its extraordinarily mobile population, its commercial expansion, and its uneasy involvement with the slave trade, which made many of its merchants’ fortunes. Wright’s highly realistic style was well suited to this environment, and demand for his portraits led him to complete one, on average, every ten days. Wright’s success in Liverpool made him the first great British artist to establish a career largely outside London. — —
The exhibition featured approximately eighty-five works of art, including nearly fifty paintings and drawings by Wright, as well as works by his circle of friends and pupils in the city. — —
Venues — —
Walker Art Gallery: — —
November 17, 2007–February 24, 2008 — —
Yale Center for British Art: — —
May 22–August 31, 2008 — —
Credits — —
Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool was co-organized by the Center and the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. It was curated by Elizabeth E. Barker (Yale BA 1992), Director and Chief Curator of the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, and Alex Kidson, Curator of British Art at the Walker Art Gallery. At the Center, Julia Marciari Alexander, Associate Director for Exhibitions and Publications, and Eleanor Hughes, Assistant Curator for Exhibitions and Publications, served as the organizing curators. The exhibition coincided with a two-year celebration of Liverpool’s cultural heritage, the 800th anniversary of its charter in 2007, and its status as European Capital of Culture in 2008.
Yale Center for British Art
57086
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publication event
Elizabeth E. Barker, ^Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool^, Yale University Press, Liverpool New Haven, 2007, p. 179, no. 54, NJ18 W95 B36 2007 + (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Elizabeth E. Barker
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Barker Elizabeth E.
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Author
Alex Kidson
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Kidson Alex
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Author
Yale University Press
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2007
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Yale Center for British Art
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British Art Center
1977
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2007-02-02
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The Irish-born Thomas Frye was one of the most innovative artists in mid-eighteenth century Britain, whose impact on his generation has only recently been properly understood. He seems to have moved to London at an early age and embarked on a career as a painter, pastelist, and printmaker, as well as a porcelain manufacturer, being one of the founders of the Bow porcelain works. Among his last projects was a remarkable series of twelve expressive heads, which he reproduced in mezzotint and which enjoyed popularity on both sides of the Atlantic. These heads had a considerable influence on his contemporaries, including Joseph Wright of Derby. This example in black chalk represents and old man burdened by time and was reproduced by Wright for a figure in his two paintings of a Blacksmith’s Shop (both 1771), one of which is shown on the Center’s fourth floor.
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Elizabeth E. Barker, Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool, Yale University Press, Liverpool New Haven, 2007, p. 179, no. 54, NJ18 W95 B36 2007 + (YCBA)
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Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
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