With the accomplished photographer David Finn at his side, Robinson presents the building to us inside and out - from its formal welcoming atrium to the armchair comfort of its galleries, to the serene and well-ordered offices and study spaces - as a successful, living museum. Along the way on this very personal guided tour, he enlightens us as only he could on the history of the museum, on the experience of viewing this particular art collection in its setting, and on a host of architectural and decorative details, from carpets and door-knobs to vaulted skylights. Throughout he draws our attention to the dual nature of the Center as both a public museum and a research institute, a concept well understood and beautifully articulated in Kahn's organization of the building around two interior courts.The Yale Center for British Art is a building that works equally well for research scholars, for third-graders on their first visit to a museum, and for seasoned art lovers. No more and no less than any great building, Robinson and Finn show us, the Center is a work of art in its own right.

The Yale Center for British Art: A Tribute to the Genius of Louis I. Kahn

Arts & Photography

Robinson, Duncan

Architecture

YC British Art

Paul Mellon (1907--1999) was an unparalleled collector of British art. His collection, now at Yale in the museum and study center he founded to house it, rivals those in Britain’s national museums and is unquestionably the most comprehensive representation of British art held outside of the United Kingdom. This book and the exhibition that it accompanies celebrate the centenary of his birth. Five introductory essays examine Mellon’s extraordinary collecting activity, as well as his role in creating both the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London as gifts to his alma mater (Yale 1929). A lavishly illustrated catalogue section showcases 148 of the most exquisite and important paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, sculpture, rare books, and manuscript material in the Yale Center’s collection, including major works by Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, George Stubbs, John Constable, and J. M. W. Turner.

Paul Mellon's Legacy: A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art)

Allen, Brian

BASKETT, John

Prown, Jules David

Reese, William S.

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Van De Velde Drawings 1

Cambridge University Press

Early European art was a consuming interest of both Robert Lehman and his father, Philip Lehman, an interest reflected in the remarkable number and quality of drawings they owned from the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. In addition to an important group of early German drawings, the collection includes a Saint Paul from a series associated with Jan van Eyck and the famous Scupstoel from the circle of Rogier van der Weyden, the only design for a decorative sculpture to survive from the fifteenth century. The great artists of the seventeenth century, Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob Jordaens, Claude Lorrain, and Rembrandt among them, are also represented, Rembrandt by seven drawings, including the large study of Leonardo's Last Supper that would stay in his mind all through his career, whenever he depicted groups of figures conversing with each other. Drawings by Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and Gabriel de Saint-Aubin are among the many from eighteenth-century France.
 This volume is the ninth to be published in a projected series of sixteen that will catalogue the entire Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum. It discusses all 140 drawings at length, placing each in its art historical setting and complementing the discussion with comparative illustrations of related works.

Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-Century European Drawings in the the Robert Lehman Collection, Vol. 7: Central Europe, The Netherlands, France, England

Holmes, Mary Tavener

Posner, Donald

Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert

KORENY, Fritz

Metropolitan Museum of Art; Princeton UP

Robert Lehman was a member of the first generation of American collectors to embrace what we call modern art. This lavishly illustrated volume catalogues 207 nineteenth- and twentieth-century European drawings that are now part of the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. More than three-quarters of these drawings are French, but there are also sheets from Italy, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. Most are from the nineteenth century, but Robert Lehman also acquired, in some cases from the artists themselves, a number of drawings made during his own lifetime.
 The catalogue begins with drawings by David and Goya, the two most important artists in Europe at the turn of the nineteenth century, and it concludes with a group of watercolors made in the 1940s by the painter Marcel Vertès. Among the French drawings are outstanding sheets by David, Delacroix, Ingres, Chassériau, Corot, and Daumier. Drawings by Renoir, Morisot, Sisley, Pissarro, and Degas represent the Impressionists, and Robert Lehman also assembled one of the finest private collections of Neo-Impressionist drawings, including canonical works by Seurat, Signac, Cross, and Pissarro. Entries by four specialists elucidate various aspects of the drawings. The volume features an extensive bibliography and an index.

The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume IX: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European Drawings (ROBERT LEHMAN COLLECTION IN THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART)

Brettell, Richard R.

Tomlinson, Janis

Forster-Hahn, Françoise

Princeton University Press

Stanley Spencer was the most intensely local of all great artists, and his native village of Cookham was a central source of inspiration. Yet he was far from parochial, and woven into Duncan Robinson's account of the artist's career is a just appreciation of his greatness and of his place in the wider context of European art. This book celebrates both the range and the powerful individual quality of Spencer's achievements as a religious visionary, war artist, portrait painter and landscapist.

Stanley Spencer, visions from a Berkshire village

Phaidon

Traces the life and work of English painter Stanley Spencer from his early career at the Slade School of Fine Art to his success as a landscape and portrait painter, and assesses his place in the context of twentieth-century European art

Stanley Spencer

Phaidon Inc Ltd

Individual Artists

Phaidon Press

Physical description; 116 p. : ill. ; 32 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Morris, William 1834-1896. Burne-Jones, Edward Coley 1833-1898. Chaucer, Geoffrey -1400 - Illustrations.

William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, and the Kelmscott Chaucer

History

Europe

G. Fraser

William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and the Kelmscott Chaucer

Moyer Bell Ltd.

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