Great British Paintings from American Collections: Holbein to Hockney

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27 September -- 30 December 2001

Yale Center for British Art: This exhibition is the most comprehensive exhibition of masterpieces of British painting ever assembled in this country. It features over eighty paintings from both public and private collections, offering a fresh and beautiful account of the history of British painting from the sixteenth century to the 1990s. Lenders to the exhibition range from nationally famous museums, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, to smaller collections that might own a single great British painting. Americans have been the most avid collectors of British painting outside Britain.

Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street

`Wilde Americk': Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850

[Exhibits]

27 September -- 30 December 2001

Yale Center for British Art: This exhibition features some of the great landmarks in the mapping and exploration of the New World, from the great Age of Discovery to the mid-nineteenth century. Along with printed maps, atlases, and illustrated travel accounts, some extraordinary manuscript material will be on view, including a spectacular hand-drawn terrestrial globe probably created around 1522 by the astronomer and mathematician Johannes Schoner - the third oldest world sphere to survive. Also on display will be John Barnwell's manuscript map of the southeastern part of North America, drawn in 1721, an important political document forming the basis of subsequent mapping of the area until the American Revolution. The exhibition will feature one of the Center's great treasures, the earliest surviving manuscript map showing the route of Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation of 1577-1580, produced for Queen Elizabeth I around 1587.

Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street

The Paul Mellon Bequest: Treasures of a Lifetime

[Exhibits]

Through --29 April 2001

Yale Center for British Art: To honor its founder and patron, Paul Mellon, the Yale Center for British Art exhibits publicly for the first time works from Mr. Mellon's final gift to the museum. The exhibition includes eleven paintings by his favorite artist, George Stubbs, and eighteen oil sketches by John Constable. For more information on BAC exhibitions throughout the Tercentennial year, see www.yale.edu/ycba. Free and open to the public.

Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street

The Line of Beauty: British Drawings and Watercolors of the 18th Century

[Exhibits]

Through -- 2 September 2001

Yale Center for British Art: This exhibition draws from the Yale Center for British Art's collection and includes works by William Blake, Thomas Gainsborough, and others. Free and open to the public.