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thanks to the donation-in-payment system put in place by the Arts Council 
England.
The 
Yale Center for British Art
at Yale University in downtown New 
Haven, Connecticut, houses the largest and most comprehensive collection 
of British art outside the United Kingdom. The collection of paintings, 
sculpture, drawings, prints, rare books, and manuscripts reflects the 
development of British art and culture from the Elizabethan period onward. 
The Center was established by a gift from Paul Mellon (Yale College 
Class of 1929) of his British art collection to Yale in 1966, together with an 
endowment for operations of the Center, and funds for a building to house the 
works of art. The building was designed by Louis I. Kahn and constructed at 
the corner of York and Chapel Streets in New Haven, across the street from 
one of Kahn's earliest buildings, the Yale University Art Gallery, built in 
1953. The Yale Center for British Art was completed after Kahn's death in 
1974, and opened to the public on April 19, 1977. The exterior is made of 
matte steel and reflective glass; the interior is made of travertine marble, 
white oak, and Belgian linen. Kahn succeeded in creating intimate galleries 
where one can view objects in diffused natural light. He wanted to allow in as 
much daylight as possible, with artificial illumination used only on dark days 
or in the evening. The building’s design, materials, and sky-lit rooms combine 
to provide an environment for the works of art that is simple and dignified. 
The Center is affiliated with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in 
British Art in London, which awards grants and fellowships, publishes 
academic titles, and sponsors Yale’s first credit-granting undergraduate study 
abroad program, Yale-in-London. 
The collection consists of nearly 2,000 paintings and 200 sculptures, 
with an emphasis on the period between William Hogarth's birth (1697) to J. 
M. W. Turner's death (1851). Other artists represented include Thomas 
Gainsborough, George 
Stubbs, Joseph 
Wright, John 
Constable, Joshua 

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Reynolds, Thomas Lawrence, Robert Polhill Bevan, Stanley Spencer, Barbara 
Hepworth, and Ben Nicholson. 
The collection also has works by artists from Europe and North America who 
lived and worked in Britain. These include Hans Holbein, Peter Paul 
Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Canaletto, Johann Zoffany, John Singleton 
Copley, Benjamin West, and James McNeill Whistler. 
Some areas of emphasis of the collection are small group portraits, 
known as "conversation pieces", including those by Hogarth, Gainsborough, 
Zoffany and Arthur Devis; landscape paintings by Gainsborough, Richard 
Wilson, Constable, Richard Parkes Boningtonand Turner; and British sporting 
and animal paintings, featuring George Stubbs, John Wootton, Benjamin 
Marshall, and Alfred Munnings. Other genres include marine paintings, 
represented by Samuel Scott and Charles Brooking; London cityscapes; travel 
art from India, scenes of Shakespearean plays, and portraits of actors. 
Sculptors 
represented 
include Louis-Francois 
Roubiliac, Joseph 
Nollekens, Francis Chantrey, Jacob Epstein, and Henry Moore. 
The collection of 20,000 drawings and watercolors and 31,000 prints features 
British sporting art and figure drawings. It includes works by Hogarth, Paul 
Sandby, Thomas Rowlandson, William Blake, John Constable, Samuel 
Palmer, Richard Parkes Bonington, John Ruskin, J. M. W. Turner, Walter 
Sickert, Duncan Grant, Paul Nash, Edward Burra, Stanley Spencer, Augustus 
John, Gwen John, and the Pre-Raphaelites. 
The Center's collection of rare books and manuscripts comprises 35,000 
volumes, including maps, atlases, sporting books, and archival material of 
British 
artists. 
It 
also 
has 
some 
1,300 
leaves originating in 
illustrated incunabula. The collection also includes a complete set of William 
Morris’s Kelmscott Press publications as well as a growing collection of 
contemporary artists’ books. The core of the collection of illustrated books is 

the material amassed by Major J. R. Abbey‚ one of the first collectors of 
British color-plate books, and includes more than 2‚000 volumes describing 
British life‚ customs‚ scenery‚ and travel during the period 1770–1860. The 
Center’s collection also contains a significant number of early maps and 
atlases. 
The four-floor Center offers a year-round schedule of exhibitions and 
educational programs, including films, concerts, lectures, tours, symposia, and 
family programs. It also provides numerous opportunities for scholarly 
research, including residential fellowships. Academic resources of the Center 
include the reference library (40,000 volumes) and photo archive, 
conservation laboratories, and a study room for examining works on paper 
from the collection. 
The Center is open to the public free of charge six days a week, and is a 
member of the North American Reciprocal Museums program. 

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