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Paintings and Sculpture
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Bell, Vanessa, 1879–1961
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John, Gwen, 1876–1939
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1947
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1944
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1812
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2005
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1915
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1941
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Drawings & Watercolors
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Paintings
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female
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20th century
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canvas
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watercolor
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drawing
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watercolor
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portrait
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portrait
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self-portrait
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stripes
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woman
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Associated People
Bell [née Stephen], Vanessa (1879–1961), painter
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Mademoiselle Pouvereau
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Exhibition History
A Room of Their Own - The Artists of Bloomsbury in American Collections (Palmer Museum of Art, 2010-07-06 - 2010-09-26)
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Figuring Women - The Female in Modern British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-03-28 - 2008-06-08)
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Revisiting Traditions [BAC 20th century painting & sculpture] (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-04-30 - 2005-05-18)
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The Bloomsbury Group (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-05-20 - 2000-09-03)
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The Mirror and the Mask - Portraiture in the Age of Picasso (Kimbell Art Museum, 2007-06-17 - 2007-09-16)
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This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05)
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This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15)
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This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06)
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Vanessa Bell (1879 - 1961) (Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2017-02-08 - 2017-06-04)
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Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) (Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, 1984-09-20 - 1984-10-28)
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Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Elizabeth S. Tower
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961
Self-Portrait
ca. 1915
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Gwen John, 1876–1939
Mlle. Pouvereau
between 1910 and 1919