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A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions
Forty years ago this past April, the Yale Center for British Art first opened to the public. In celebration of this anniversary, a suite of exhibitions showcases the most recent additions to the Center鈥檚 exceptional collection of British art. Offering visitors a behind-the-scenes look at the growth and evolution of the collection, the displays feature several groupings of newly acquired works鈥攕ome 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鈥檚 founder, Paul Mellon (Yale College, Class of 1929).
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Forty years ago this past April, the Yale Center for British Art first opened to the public. In celebration of this anniversary, a suite of exhibitions showcases the most recent additions to the Center鈥檚 exceptional collection of British art. Offering visitors a behind-the-scenes look at the growth and evolution of the collection, the displays feature several groupings of newly acquired works鈥攕ome 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鈥檚 founder, Paul Mellon (Yale College, Class of 1929).
Artists on show
- Anish Kapoor
- Anna Atkins
- Augustus Edwin John
- Barbara Ciurej
- Ben Nicholson
- Bill Brandt
- Cecil Beaton
- Cornelia Parker
- David Cox
- Eliot Hodgkin
- James Seymour
- John Golding
- Lewis Morley
- Lindsay Lochman
- Richard Hamilton
- Roger Fenton
- Sir Peter Lely
- Sir Thomas Lawrence
- Thomas Girtin
- William Orpen
- Yinka Shonibare
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