Medium: oil paint / On-site Access: Not on view / Genre: still life

1. Flowers in a Lustre Pot

Creator:: Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961, British
Date:: ca. 1950
Medium:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 18 1/4 x 21 3/4 inches (46.4 x 55.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker

2. 1930 (playing cards)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982, British
Date:: 1930
Medium:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 12 x 15 3/4 inches (30.5 x 40 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. 1951 (still life – sweet peas)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982, British
Date:: 1951
Medium:: Graphite and oil on board
Dimensions:: 8 1/16 x 10 inches (20.5 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. September 1960 (wood)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982, British
Date:: 1960
Medium:: Oil on plywood
Dimensions:: 13 x 16 15/16 inches (33 x 43 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. May 1955 (Gwithian)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982, British
Date:: 1955
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 3/4 x 41 3/4 inches (106 x 106 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. 1929 (still life)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982, British
Date:: 1929, reworked 1935
Medium:: Oil and pencil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 1/2 x 32 1/2 inches (67.3 x 82.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Jan 20 1948 (still life, Newlyn)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982, British
Date:: 1948
Medium:: Oil on canvas, laid on board
Dimensions:: 31 3/4 x 20 1/4 inches (80.6 x 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. 1934 (still life)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982, British
Date:: 1934
Medium:: Oil and pencil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 1/4 x 15 inches (28.6 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. April 1950 (goblets)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982, British
Date:: 1950
Medium:: Oil and pencil on wood
Dimensions:: Mount: 16 x 19 1/2 inches (40.6 x 49.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Louise P. Stanton

10. White Hydrangea

Creator:: Stuart Park, 1862–1933, British
Date:: ca. 1890
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 x 12 3/16 inches (38.1 x 31 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Isabel S. Kurtz in memory of her father, Charles M. Kurtz

11. Still life with blue bottle

Creator:: Roger Fry, 1866–1934, British
Date:: 1917
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches (62.2 x 45.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

12. Red Interior

Creator:: John Monks, born 1954, British
Date:: 1990
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 94 × 72 inches (238.8 × 182.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Acquired through the generosity of Gilbert de Botton, Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey, Sir James Colyer- Fergusson, Christina and Nilu Fallah, Simon K. Kettner, Ari Rennert, and the Graham Paton Gallery

13. Mineral Objects

Creator:: Paul Nash, 1889–1946, British
Date:: 1935
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches (50.2 x 60.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. Parrots and Fruit with Other Birds and a Squirrel

Creator:: Tobias Stranover, 1684–after 1735, German, active in Britain
Date:: between 1710 and 1724
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 44 1/2 x 62 1/2 inches (113 x 158.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Glasses

Creator:: Sir William Nicholson, 1872–1949, British
Date:: ca. 1919
Medium:: Oil on canvas, mounted on millboard
Dimensions:: 13 x 16 inches (33 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Still Life of Bread, Butter and Cheese

Creator:: George Smith, 1714–1776, British
Date:: ca. 1754
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 1/8 × 30 inches (63.8 × 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. The Blue Passion Flower, for Robert John Thornton’s Temple of Flora (London, 1799–1812)

Creator:: Philip Reinagle, 1749–1833, British
Date:: 1800
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 7/8 x 14 3/4 inches (45.4 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Studies of Summer Flowers

Creator:: Jacques-Laurent Agasse, 1767–1849, Swiss, active in Britain (from 1800)
Date:: ca. 1848
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 3/4 x 18 inches (37.5 x 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Blue and Green Bottles and Oranges

Creator:: Spencer Frederick Gore, 1878–1914, British
Date:: ca. 1914
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 1/8 × 16 inches (51.1 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Souvenir of Florence

Creator:: Paul Nash, 1889–1946, British
Date:: 1929
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 x 17 1/4 inches (68.6 x 43.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. Cyclamen

Creator:: Roger Fry, 1866–1934, British
Date:: 1915
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 x 15 1/2 inches (48.3 x 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nicholas Pritzker

22. Bundle of Asparagus

Creator:: Eliot Hodgkin, 1905–1987, British
Date:: 1962
Medium:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: Image: 8 × 10 3/4 inches (20.3 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

23. Poppies and Tradascanthus

Creator:: unknown artist, eighteenth century
Date:: ca. 1800
Medium:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: 17 x 14 inches (43.2 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. A Letter Rack

Creator:: Edward Collier, 1642–1708, Dutch, active in London 1693–1702 and 1706–1708
Date:: 1695
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Overall: 23 1/4 × 18 1/2 inches (59.1 × 47 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

25. Flowers in a Delft Jar

Creator:: Alexander Marshal, active 1651–died 1682, British
Date:: 1663
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Still Life with a Prayer Book, Shawl, Vase of Flowers and Inkwell

Creator:: Gwen John, 1876–1939, British
Date:: late 1920s
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 10 1/2 × 8 1/2 inches (26.7 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Delicious Morsel for the Crocodile

Creator:: Alan Davie, 1920–2014, British
Date:: 1963
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 x 60 inches (121.9 x 152.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Judith Rothschild Foundation in memory of Janet Cowan Bosse

28. A Thistle

Creator:: Attributed to John Crome, 1768–1821, British
Date:: ca. 1812
Medium:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 27 × 21 1/4 inches (68.6 × 54 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Still Life (Michaelmas Daisies in a Pot Tankard)

Creator:: Roger Fry, 1866–1934, British
Date:: ca. 1915
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Overall: 27 × 29 inches (68.6 × 73.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lois Severini and Enrique Foster Gittes, Yale BA 1961

30. Bubble 6

Creator:: Alex Hanna, born 1964, British
Date:: 2014
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Overall: 23 5/8 × 37 3/8 × 13/16 inches (60 × 95 × 2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Priseman Seabrook Collection

31. Jug and Fruit

Creator:: Mary Fedden, 1915–2012, British
Date:: 1989
Medium:: oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 25 1/2 × 37 5/8 inches (64.8 × 95.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker

32. Study of a Coat Belonging to John, 11th Earl of Westmorland

Creator:: Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1834–1890, British
Date:: mid-19th century
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 13 1/2 x 10 inches (34.3 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. The Brown Tea Pot

Creator:: Gwen John, 1876–1939, British
Date:: between 1915 and 1916
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 3/16 × 9 1/8 inches (33.5 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Studies of Military Accoutrements: a study for `The Battle of Waterloo'

Creator:: George Jones, 1786–1869, British
Date:: 1815
Medium:: oil on paper laid to card
Dimensions:: 16 3/4 x 20 1/2 inches (42.5 x 52.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Irises

Creator:: Roger Fry, 1866–1934, British
Date:: ca. 1915
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Overall: 32 × 38 inches (81.3 × 96.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lois Severini and Enrique Foster Gittes, Yale BA 1961

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1. Flowers in a Lustre Pot

2. 1930 (playing cards)

3. 1951 (still life – sweet peas)

4. September 1960 (wood)

5. May 1955 (Gwithian)

6. 1929 (still life)

7. Jan 20 1948 (still life, Newlyn)

8. 1934 (still life)

9. April 1950 (goblets)

10. White Hydrangea

11. Still life with blue bottle

12. Red Interior

13. Mineral Objects

14. Parrots and Fruit with Other Birds and a Squirrel

15. Glasses

16. Still Life of Bread, Butter and Cheese

17. The Blue Passion Flower, for Robert John Thornton’s Temple of Flora (London, 1799–1812)

18. Studies of Summer Flowers

19. Blue and Green Bottles and Oranges

20. Souvenir of Florence

21. Cyclamen

22. Bundle of Asparagus

23. Poppies and Tradascanthus

24. A Letter Rack

25. Flowers in a Delft Jar

26. Still Life with a Prayer Book, Shawl, Vase of Flowers and Inkwell

27. Delicious Morsel for the Crocodile

28. A Thistle

29. Still Life (Michaelmas Daisies in a Pot Tankard)

30. Bubble 6

31. Jug and Fruit

32. Study of a Coat Belonging to John, 11th Earl of Westmorland

33. The Brown Tea Pot

34. Studies of Military Accoutrements: a study for `The Battle of Waterloo'

35. Irises