Yale Blog 4 The Brittish Art Center

Principally founded and donated by Paul Mellon, this is the largest collection of British art outside of the United Kingdom.  It is  also a redesigned space, and spectacular.  The permanent collection is astounding.   Here are some of my favorites.

Sir Joshua Reynolds  1723-1792

"Mrs. Abington as Miss Prue in

'Love for Love' by William Congreve  1771

Thomas Gainsborough RA 1727-1788

"Mary Little, Later Lady Carr"  1765

Samuel Scott, Ca. 1702-1772

"The Thames and the Tower of London Supposedly on the King's Birthday"   1771

Canaletto, 1697-1768, Venetian

Active in Britain (1746-55)

"Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames"  1747

Detail of above

Canaletto

"Warwick Castle"  1749

Detail of above

Susan in the Great Hall

David Roberta 1796-1864

"Edinburgh from the Castle"  1847

Detail of above

Unknown Artist, sixteenth century

"Portrait of a Young Woman"   1567

What a ferocious dress!  Women have all the fun.

Well, actually, not back then!

I've seen codpieces worth more than all my suits.

John Frederick Lewis  1804-1876

"A lady Receiving Visitors (The Reception)"  1873

One of the most virtuoso painters of all time.

Frederick Sandys  1829-1904

"Grace Rose"

(detail)

Again, astounding virtuosity.  Look at the jewelry.

Francis Bacon   1909-1992

"Study of a Head"   1954

Bacon's art is so intense and mesmerizing, and disturbing, that after a few minutes of being

transfixed, you have to wander away and find something reassuring.

Like this!

Andrew Logan,  born 1945

"Her Majesty"

I make a ghostly appearance in the mirrors of the art.

Susan in the main hall of the entrance foyer.

The Scranton Seahorse Inn, Madison, Conn.

Wonderful  B&B, great location for New Haven, incredible breakfasts, cozy romantic rooms.

Susan, our great host, and marvelous cook, Mike, and me.

Yale Blog 3 Misc. Asian, African, etc.

Just a hint of what further art the Yale U. Art Museum offers.  Truly something for everyone.

Pig with Calendar Marks

Batak

Indonesia, Sumatra, 19th. Century

Ceremonial Cloth

(Pua Sungkit)

Ivban, Ulu Ai

Malaysia, Borneo, Sarawak, 19th. Century

Mask (Hudoq)

Kayan or Kenyah

Indonesia, Borneo

19th-early 20th century

An extremely riveting, and frightening image.

Four Shields

Kayan or Kenyah

Indonesia, Borneo, 19th century

Food Vessel (Gui)

Chinese, Western Shou dynasty

11th-10th century B.C.E.

Wrist Rest with Text and

Illustration of Su Shi's "Ode on the Red Cliff"

Qianlong period (1736-1795)

Why not rest your weary wrist on a work of art after having

done calligraphy all morning?

Standing Jizo Bosatsu (detail)

(Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva)

Japanese, Heian period (794-1185

Imagine a smile that lasts 900 years

Ikkosai Toun

Japanese, active early 19th century

"Long-Legged Man and Long-Armed Man Cooperating to Catch an Octopus"

This is quite simply one of the most humorous images in art I have ever seen.  It is only two inches tall.

And look at the expression of the Octopus' face!

Francois de Nome,

called Monsu Desiderio

"The Circumcision of Christ

There is something so awful about this painting.  I suppose it is the assumption that

any part of Christ's life can be used as a excuse to paint some grandiose  scene which includes

members of the Papacy, and grandees hanging around.

I love the building.  I hate the conceit.

And the Pope welding the blade!

You would think some shame, if not embarrassment over the presumption.

Hans Holbein the Younger 1497-1543

Portrait of a Hanseatic Merchant  1538

Bernardo Bellotto  1732-1780

"The Lock at Dolo"

I still am thrilled by almost any type of landscape that includes magnificent buildings

Jean-Honore Fragonard 1732-1806

"The Rest on the Flight into Egypt" (detail)

Aelbert Cuyp  1620-1691

"Orpheus Charming the Animals" (detail)

Frans van Mieris the Elder 1635-1681

"The Old Violinist"

I would like to think he is thinking about some conductor, or trumpet players in general.

Rembrandt van Rijn 1606-1669

"Portrait of Aeltje Uylenburgh"

There is nothing I can say to adequately express such genius.  Except that I wish

I could have known, and talked, with her.

Claude Monet  1840-1926

"The Artist's Garden in Giverny"

Seen through the eyes of a man going blind with cataracts.

Odilon Redon  1840-1916

"Nasturtiums"

Every Redon is a viewing experience.  Is this Nasturtiums, or is it a spreading virus

under a microscope?  Or a single cell being attacked?

Art in New Haven Blog 2

This is a representation of the Yale University Art Museum's contemporary permanent collection.  Just a sample, but some of my favorites.

Robert Motherwell  1915-1991

Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 78  (1962)

Jackson Pollock  1912-1956

Number 13A: Arabesque  1948

detail of above

Willem de Kooning  1904-1997

Untitled XIII  1975

Fernand Leger  1881-1955

Masque negre (The Black Mask)  1942

Kasimir Malevich  1878-1935

Tochilo'schik Printsip Mel'Kaniia

The Knife Grinder or Principle of Glittering  1912

Alberto Giacometti  1901-1966

Buste de Diego  1958

Pablo Picasso   1881-1973

First Steps  1943

What an unbelievable sense of humor. 

The child reminds me of Barbara's eaglets in her Batique

Pablo Picasso

Shells on a Piano  1912

Maurice de Vlaminck  1876-1958

Still Live with Flowers  (detail)

Piet Mondrian  1872-1944

By the Sea  1909

What a find!  This is so unlike the Mondrians we are used to seeing, it could almost be miss-labeled.

I wonder where he would have gone, artistically, if he hadn't discovered the straight line, and the monochrome palette.

Wassily Kandinsky  1866-1944

Abstrakte Deutung (Abstract Interpretation)  1925

Paul Klee  1879-1940

Heitere Gebirgslandschaft (Joyful Mountain Landscape)  1929

Why just the one tree, I wonder?

George Grosz  1893-1959

Drinnen und Draussen (Inside and Outside)  1926

A wonderful (!) example of the art Hitler called decadent.

Felix Del Marle  1889-1952

Les six jours ou la patineuse (The Six Days or the Ice Skater)  1913

An artist I am unfamiliar with, but I really admire this.

Salvador Dali  1904-1989

La Libre inclinacion del deseo (The Free Inclination of Desire)  1930

detail of above

Paul Delvaux  18978-1994

The Forest  1935

detail of above (bwah ha ha ha ha....

Sometimes I just can't help myself....