Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Undetermined
Accession Number:
B1993.30.25
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
food | cups | tankard | mug | drinking glasses | curtain | still life
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Revisiting Traditions [BAC 20th century painting & sculpture] (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-04-30 - 2005-05-18)20th Century Paintings and Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30)
Publications:
Lillian Browse, William Nicholson, London, 1956, p. 122, no. 578, NJ18 N52 B76 1956 (YCBA)Christie's Sales Catalogue : British and Irish Modernist and Contemporary Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture : Friday, 10 November 1989, Christie's, London, Friday, November 10, 1989, p. 26, lot 224, Sales Catalogue (YCBA)Patricia Reed, William Nicholson, catalogue raisonne´ of the oil paintings , Modern Art Press, London; New haven, 2011, pp. 22, 23, 359, no. 424, figs.20,23;pl424, NJ18.N52 A12 R44 2011 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)Sanford Schwartz, William Nicholson, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2004, p. 198, NJ18.N52 S35 2004 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
William Nicholson gained early fame as a graphic designer in the 1890s, producing posters in collaboration with the artist James Pryde. In the early twentieth century he became an equally celebrated still-life painter, with a particular talent for capturing the reflection of light off different surfaces. Nicholson’s passion for still life was a great influence on his eldest son, Ben, whose work is shown nearby. “I owe a lot to my father,” Ben claimed in 1963, “especially his poetic ideal and his still-life theme. That didn't come from Cubism as some people think, but from my father—not only from what he did as a painter, but from the beautiful striped and spotted jugs and mugs and goblets and octagonal and hexagonal glass objects which he collected.” Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016