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An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
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An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy
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An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)
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Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
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Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art
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To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the Yale Center for British Art and the centennial of the birth of its founder Paul Mellon (Yale College Class of 1929), the Center mounted a major exhibition showcasing Mr. Mellon’s extraordinary collection of paintings, watercolors, rare books, and manuscripts. Paul Mellon’s Legacy: A Passion for British Art was displayed across all three floors of the Center’s public exhibition galleries. — —
Venues — —
Yale Center for British Art: April 18–July 29, 2007 — —
Royal Academy of Arts, London: October 20, 2007–January 27, 2008 — —
Credits — —
Paul Mellon’s Legacy was curated by Brian Allen, Director of Studies, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London; John Baskett, friend and art advisor to Paul Mellon; and MaryAnne Stevens, Acting Secretary and Senior Curator, Royal Academy of Arts, London, in collaboration with the curators of the Yale Center for British Art. At the Center, Paul Mellon’s Legacy was supported by Bank of New York Mellon and Mr. and Mrs. Bart T. Tiernan, Yale LL.B. 1968. — —
Yale Center for British Art
Thomas Rowlandson from the Paul Mellon Collection (National Sporting Library and Museum, 2005-04-14 - 2005-06-10)
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Thomas Rowlandson from the Paul Mellon Collection
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The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
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exhibition
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century
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The eighteenth century in Britain witnessed an extraordinary flourishing of the practice of drawing, among both professional artists and amateurs. This exhibition of one hundred outstanding drawings and watercolors from the Yale Center for British Art celebrated the richness and diversity of its eighteenth century holdings—rivaled only by the great national collections in London—and examined the professional and social roles played by draftsmanship during the period. Among the highlights were works by William Blake, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, Henry Fuseli, Thomas Gainsborough, Allan Ramsay, Paul Sandby, and William Hogarth (whose controversial and innovative theory of the “Line of Beauty” suggested the title for the exhibition). — —
Ranging from large-scale highly finished exhibition watercolors to informal sketches intended for private use and enjoyment, the drawings were arranged in illuminating thematic and contextual groupings: the portrait, landscape, the city, science and natural history, sports and amusements, and the life of the artist. — —
Credits — —
Curated at the Center by Scott Wilcox, Curator of Prints and Drawings, and Gillian Forrester, Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings, The Line of Beauty also featured drawing manuals and instructional literature of the period, selected from the Center’s rich collection of rare books.
Yale Center for British Art
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
644
300054766
exhibition
Pleasures and Pastimes
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
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Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15)
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300054766
exhibition
Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection
Yale Center for British Art
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Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28)
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Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection
Yale Center for British Art
Royal Academy of Arts
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John Baskett, ^The drawings of Thomas Rowlandson in the Paul Mellon Collection^, Brandywine Press, New York, 1978, p. 61, no. 242, NJ18 .R79 B38 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
John Baskett
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Dudley Snelgrove, 1906–1992, British
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Brandywine Press
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Ann Bermingham, ^The consumption of culture, 1600-1800, Image, object, text ^, Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), New York, 1995, p. 348, DA485 C667 1995 (YCBA)
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Ann Bermingham
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Ann Bermingham
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Elisabeth Fairman, ^Pleasures and pastimes^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1990, p. 19, no. 118, DA485 F25 1990 (YCBA)
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Elisabeth Fairman
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^Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 6, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
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John Riely, ^Rowlandson drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. xix, 6-7, no. 5, pl. IV, NJ18 .R79 R68 (LC) (YCBA)
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John Riely
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Scott Wilcox, ^Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 106-8, no. 88, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
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Scott Wilcox
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Gillian Forrester, British
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Morna O'Neill
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Kim Sloan
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Rowlandson’s portrayal of an audience at the theater captures the culture of display and spectatorship that lay at the heart of eighteenth-century social life (Brewer, 1995, p. 348). Few of these spectators have actually come to watch the play. Instead they are busy studying one another and being scrutinized by figures in the surrounding boxes. Because light levels in auditoriums were not dimmed during performances, London’s crowded theaters provided an ideal venue for this sport of seeing and being seen. Rowlandson was himself a regular habitué of the playhouse; his friend Jack Bannister was a leading comic actor who regularly performed at Drury Lane. Although this scene has been identified as the remodeled Drury Lane that opened in 1775, the architecture does not quite tally, making this a more generic scene of London theater life. These theatergoers occupy the first gallery level of the auditorium, a zone reserved for the polite middling orders of society. Here young gallants try their luck with the seated ladies, a practice described in a contemporary epilogue that was often delivered from the stage to close a night’s entertainment. Thomas King (“Bucks Have at Ye All,” 1768) described the gallery as “The ‘Middle Row’, whose keener Views of Bliss Are chiefly centr’d in a fav’rite Miss; A set of jovial Bucks who there resort, flushed from the Tavern—reeling ripe for Sport—Whisp’ring soft Nonsense in the fair One’s Ear, And wholly ignorant—what passes here” (Pedicord, 1980, p. 247). By dispensing with a clear narrative, Rowlandson allows for an endless range of possible plots for this human drama in the theater, something he may have learned from studying French painting on trips to France. Such open-endedness infuses the scene with an erotic charge and invites the viewer to become a fellow gallery lounger, flirting with the surrounding company in a playful exchange of glances. --- ---
Matthew Hargraves --- ---
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, pp. 272-73, no. 64, pl. 64, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
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Rowlandson frequently depicted the interiors of Drury Lane and Convent Garden, which were the only two London theaters granted full patents as "royal theatres" by the Licensing Act of 1737. Theater-going was a relatively inexpensive and popular pastime in eighteenth-century Britain, and was enjoyed by a wide cross-section of the public. Theophilus Cibber, the song of the famous actor-playwright and former Drury lane proprietor Colley Cibber, noted: "Noble, Gentle, or Simple, who fill the Boxes, Pit, and Galleries…as K-ng, L-rds and COMMONS…make the great body of the Nation." The theatrical portrait became a popular genre, and images of actors, usually in character, were widely circulated through engravings (see cat. 8).
Theaters, concert-halls, and opera houses were important social centers, and the fashionable attended to meet their friends and acquaintances, observe their enemies, and to be seen by the public. This practice evidently annoyed more serious theater-goers, including an anonymous writer in the Theatrical Monitor of 1768, who complained to testily:
During the time of the representation of a play, the quality in the boxes are totally employed in finding out, and beckoning to their acquaintances, male and female; they criticize on fashions, whisper cross the benches, make significant nods, and give hints of this and that, and t'other body.
In this watercolor Rowlandson slyly played on the performative aspect of theater-going, by depicting the audience as if they were actors in a play, and placing the viewer in the role of the spectator.
--- --- Gillian Forrester --- ---
--- Wilcox, Forrester, O'Neil, Sloan. The Line of Beauty: British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2001. pg. 107., cat. no. 88, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
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500303557
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