John Constable: The Late work (Royal Academy of Arts, 2021-10-30 - 2022-02-13)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism (Chicago Historical Society, 1988-04-06 - 1988-06-05)William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism (New York Public Library, 1987-10-31 - 1988-01-02)John Constable (The Yomiuri Shimbun, 1986-01-30 - 1986-06-17)Art of a Changing Society - British Watercolors & Drawings 1775-1950 (Wichita Art Museum, 1983-10-23 - 1983-12-04)English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
A loan exhibition of English drawings and watercolours from the collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon of Upperville, Virginia, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1964, no. 41, N5247.M385 L62 (YCBA)Anne Lyles, Late Constable, Royal Academy of Arts, London, p. 110, no. 42, NJ18.C74 A12 2021 Oversize (YCBA)Graham Reynolds, The later paintings and drawings of John Constable, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1984, 27.11, NJ18 C74 R485 + (YCBA)The Yomiuri Shimbun, John Constable, The Yomiuri Shimbun, Tokyo, 1986, pp. 101, 159, no. 55, NJ18 .C74 R47 +Oversize (YCBA)John E. Thornes, John Constable's skies : a fusion of art and science, , University of Birmingham Press, Birmingham, UK, 1999, pp. 135-36, pl. 52, NJ18 C74 T56 1999 (YCBA)Christopher White, English landscape, 1630-1850 : drawings, prints & books from the Paul Mellon Collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 89-90, no. 161, pl. XXVIII, NC228 W45 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Howard E. Wooden, Art of a changing society : British watercolors and drawings, 1775-1900, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS, 1983, pp. 48, 82, fig. 56, ND1928 .W65 (YCBA)Jonathan Wordsworth, William Wordsworth and the age of English romanticism, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick Grasmere, UK, 1987, pp. 66, 215, no. 132, fig. 61, PR5885 W67 1987 (YCBA)Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 122-123, no. 52, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)Yale University Art Gallery, English drawings and watercolors from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, April 15-June 20,1965, , New Haven, 1965, no. 41, NC228 Y34 (YCBA)Mahonri Sharp Young, The Mellon Drawings at the Morgan, Apollo, vo. 95, April 1972, pp. 332, 334, fig. 8, N1 A54 + (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
In 1820 Constable moved to Hampstead on the edge of London and the following year began making oil sketches of the skies overhead. He acquainted himself with the latest scientific investigations in meteorology, reading and annotating studies of the subject. Here, in his attempt to capture the transitory and insubstantial appearance of a rainbow, he creates an impression of intense luminescence by contrasting a series of thin arching washes with a heavily washed blue sky. Despite the portability of watercolor pigments Constable seems rarely to have used watercolor outdoors after 1806. Gallery label for Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)