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Reference Library
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Haycock, David Boyd, 1968–
2
Hockney, David, born 1937
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Marsh, Jan, 1942–
2
Alexander, David (David S.)
1
Allen, Christine, 1953–2014
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Baldissera, Lisa, 1966–
1
Bellamy, Martin
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Bhreathnach-Lynch, Síghle
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Bindman, David, 1940–
1
Bloch, Michael
1
Brett, Simon, born 1943
1
Brookhiser, Richard
1
Button, Virginia
1
Cahill, James
1
Clayton, Eleanor
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Cohen, David, 1955–
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Donnelly, Max
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Elzea, Betty
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Emin, Tracey, born 1963
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Ewan, Joseph, 1909–1999
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2023-2024
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87
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20th century
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biographie
88
biography
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history
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criticism, interpretation, etc
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exhibition catalog
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personal correspondence
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autobiographie
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Great Britain.
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Painters.
18
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12
Painters -- Great Britain -- Biography.
11
Artists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
9
Artists -- England -- Biography.
7
United States.
5
Women artists.
5
Illustrators.
4
Painters -- England -- Biography.
4
Sculptors.
4
Women artists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
4
ART / General.
3
Architects.
3
Hockney, David, born 1937.
3
Women painters -- Great Britain -- Biography.
3
Women painters.
3
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2
Animal painters -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Great Britain
44
England
19
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6
Canada
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Germany
2
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2
Austria
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Black Mountains (Wales and England)
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Collioure (France)
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Egypt
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Germany Bavaria
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Hockney, David, born 1937
3
Emin, Tracey, born 1963
2
Freud, Lucian, 1922–2011
2
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
2
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
2
Kahn, Louis I., 1901–1974
2
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
2
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
2
Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730–1795
2
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
1
Andrews, Sybil, 1898–1992
1
Anne, Queen, consort of James I, King of England, 1574–1619
1
Barns-Graham, Wilhelmina, 1912–2004
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Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766–1815
1
Beale, Mary, 1632–1697
1
Beale, Mary, 1633–1699
1
Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872–1898
1
Bell, Clive, 1881–1964
1
Blake, William, 1757–1827
1
Broome, Myrtle, 1888–1978
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Max Donnelly.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Thomas Strong, Yale MFA 1967.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of YCBA Museum Shop.
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Yale Center for British Art, Vol. 1 is a gift of Jules David Prown.
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English
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Cohen, David, 1955–
William & Catherine
©2011
2
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
Turner's modern world
2020
3
Griswold, Mac K.
I'll build a stairway to paradise
2022
4
Brookhiser, Richard
Glorious lessons
[2024]
5
Moorhouse, Paul
Bridget Riley
2019
6
Spectre, Phillip
Richard Hamilton
[2019]
7
Elzea, Betty
A singular man
2023
8
Hilton, Timothy, 1941–
John Ruskin
[1985]-[2000]
9
Ewan, Joseph, 1909–1999
Benjamin Smith Barton
2007
10
Weiss Gallery (London, England)
A noble visage
[2001?]
11
Lives of Gainsborough
2021
12
Palmer, A. H. (Alfred Herbert), 1853–1932
A memoir of Samuel Palmer
2020
13
Paul, Celia, born 1959
Self-portrait
[2019]
14
Emin, Tracey, born 1963
Strangeland
2005
15
Clayton, Eleanor
Barbara Hepworth
2021
16
Smith, Martin Ferguson
The artist Helen Coombe (1864-1937)
2023
17
Uglow, Jenny, 1947–
Sybil & Cyril
2022
18
Lives of William Blake
2020
19
Who's who in art
[1927]-
20
Bellamy, Martin
William Burrell
2022
21
Turner, Sarah A. M.
Percy Moore Turner
2018
22
Powers, Alan, 1955–
Enid Marx
2018
23
Karbach, Walter, 1950–
Carl Haag
[2019]
24
Gammel, Irene, 1959–
I can only paint
[2020]
25
The curious Mister Catesby
[2015]
26
Reynolds, Graham
Turner
2020
27
Moyle, Franny, aut
The King's painter
2021
28
Tudor-Hart, Edith, 1908–1973
Edith Tudor-Hart
[2013]
29
Allen, Christine, 1953–2014
Annie Swynnerton, painter and pioneer
2018
30
The inking woman
2018
31
Trollope, James
Rudolph Ihlee
2022
32
Jones, Jonathan, 1976–
Tracey Emin
2020
33
Fenwick, Simon
Joan
2017
34
Riding, Jacqueline
Hogarth
2021
35
Button, Virginia
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
2020
36
LINDERISM
2020
37
Fazio, Nichole J.
Julia Margaret Cameron
2023
38
Jacobi, Carol
Out of the cage
2021
39
Marsh, Jan, 1942–
Aubrey Beardsley
2020
40
Penrose, Antony
The home of the surrealists
[2016]
41
Uglow, Jennifer S.
Mr. Lear
2018
42
Alexander, David (David S.)
A biographical dictionary of British and Irish engravers, 1714-1820
2021
43
Baldissera, Lisa, 1966–
Emily Carr
[2021]
44
William Morris
2021
45
Rabbitts, Paul A.
Decimus Burton
2021
46
Bindman, David, 1940–
Hogarth
2021
47
Hunting, Penelope
My dearest heart
2019
48
Ford, John, 1936–
Rudolph Ackermann & the Regency world
[2018]
49
Peck, Robert McCracken, 1952–
The natural history of Edward Lear
[2021]
50
Cahill, James
David Hockney
2021
51
Wiseman, Carter
Louis Kahn
2020
52
Lesser, Wendy
You say to brick
2017
53
Hamilton, James, 1948–
Constable
2022
54
Wynne, Catherine, 1971–
Lady Butler
[2019]
55
Young, Lee
An artist in Abydos
2021
56
Freeman, Laura (Freelance writer and art critic)
Ways of life
2023
57
Julien, Isaac, Sir, born 1960
Isaac Julien
[2013]
58
Marsh, Jan, 1942–
Pre-Raphaelite sisterhood
2019
59
Moorhead, Joanna
Surreal spaces
2023
60
Jones, Gregory
William Harry Rogers
2023
61
Foster, Alicia
Gwen John
2023
62
Feaver, William
The lives of Lucian Freud
2019-
63
Heitzenrater, Richard P., 1939–
An exact likeness
[2016]
64
Morris, Desmond, born 1928
The British surrealists
2022
65
Brett, Simon, born 1943
The life and art of Clifford Webb
2019
66
Hussey, Mark, 1956–
Clive Bell and the making of modernism
2021
67
Humphry, Ozias, 1742–1810
A memoir of George Stubbs
2005
68
Bhreathnach-Lynch, Síghle
Expressions of nationhood in bronze & stone
2019
69
Yeldham, Charlotte, 1951–
Maria Spilsbury (1776-1820)
2016
70
Weaver, Lawrence Trevelyan
Painter of pedigree
2017
71
Haycock, David Boyd, 1968–
Lucy Kemp-Welch
2023
72
Miles, Jonathan, 1952–
Try the wilderness first
[2018]
73
Shellman, Cecile
Effective diversity, equity, accessibility, inclusion, and anti-racism practices for museums
[2022]
74
Whitley, William T. (William Thomas), 1858–1942
Thomas Gainsborough
2016
75
Klein, Jacky
Grayson Perry
2020
76
Donnelly, Max
Christopher Dresser
2021
77
Holborn, Mark, 1949–
Lucian Freud
2019
78
Field, Jemma
Anna of Denmark
2020
79
Haycock, David Boyd, 1968–
Brilliant destiny
2023
80
Studdert, Caroline
Against the odds
[2019]
81
Golding, John
John Golding
[2024]
82
Bloch, Michael
Bloomsbury stud
2023
83
Hockney, David, born 1937
David Hockney
2021
84
Postwar modern
2022
85
Hockney, David, born 1937
Spring cannot be cancelled
2021
86
Hunt, Tristram, 1974–
The radical potter
2021
87
Moon, Iris
Melancholy Wedgwood
[2023]
88
Sikander, Shahzia, 1969–
Roots and wings
[2021]