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