Newly discovered portrait of  Tan Yew Fun谭耀勋(left), a member of first Chinese Educational Mission to the US in 1872, he was one of two to escape CEM in 1880, refused to return Imperial China, and graduated at Yale College in 1883, but died of  pneumonia the same year.

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William Alfred Delamotte (1775 - 1863)
Born Weymouth. Died Oxford.
On the Isis, Waterperry, Oxfordshire.
Date 1805.
Oil on board mounted to panel
Yale Center for British Art.

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Adorable art by Yale Stewart. commissioned by superwonder fan, Henry Cuevas.

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'An Dancing Girl from with a
From a beautiful 1772 CE painting by the 1st prominent portrait artist to operate in is with Yale Centre for British Art, USA.

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Programs for the Week: 17–22 December 2019

Watch Charlie Chaplin's influential film "The Gold Rush," the Museum Shop spreads holiday cheer, and it's the final week we are open late on Thursday.

https://t.co/dP1Lfvn9AI

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"thought and said," Leo Tolstoy once noted, "what everyone will think and say in the future." He wasn’t wrong.

In a time of climate change and consumerism, Ruskin’s work is prescient—gauge at what level by visiting our galleries today thru 5 pm.

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Programs for the Week: 26 November–1 December 2019

Safe travels and a happy holiday from all of us at the Center. The museum is closed on Thanksgiving Day, 11/28, and reopens on 11/29, at 10 am.

https://t.co/XrvHqxdLuz

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Programs for the Week: 29 October–3 November 2019

Play a shadow puppet game with your family, explore haunting works from our collection, and watch an award-winning documentary at the Center.

https://t.co/ndasCzWVH0

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Yale study makes loud-and-clear statement about the "American Dream" https://t.co/9LBWl2koMd

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Three more landscapes by James Ward, born OTD in 1769: Stonehenge (1845, Birmingham Museums); Reculver Church, Isle of Thanet (1818, Canterbury Museums), and Kenilworth Castle (1840, Yale Center for British Art). 13/14

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But James Ward didn’t just paint farm-yard animals and horses. Left: Brown long-eared bat (watercolour, Yale Center for British Art) Right: Double Portrait of Henrietta Ward's Pet Guinea Pig (1843, Lowewood Museum) 10/14

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Trial by Media: The Queen Caroline Affair mini-conference today, 1:30 pm, room 21 of the Yale Law School, New Haven.
Panel: Law, Lawyers and the Queen Caroline Trial. Panel: Media, Public Opinion and the Queen Caroline Affair
RSVP requested.
Details: https://t.co/m1Q8eMxke8

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"Unto This Last" is open—via exquisite images and prose, pioneering art writer, ecologist, and social critic John Ruskin presaged the issues with which we struggle today.

Learn More: https://t.co/aKbN8MCF1A

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I don't really like doing fan art unless it's kinda obscure somehow. I drew Alex Doonesbury to celebrate her comic's 40th anniversary. Doonesbury was a big inspiration in college, as creator Garry Trudeau was an alum and we both did satire. I got to meet him when he visited Yale.

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Hello, I draw landscapes and characters and post art every day.

Fun facts include: I studied at Yale and Tokyo University, where I found my interest in the character inherent in architecture and people. Well, not terribly fun, I guess, but facts, at least.

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Programs for the Week: 23–28 July 2019

Join us on July 25 for a concert celebrating the relationship between art and music in Britain.

https://t.co/8YMCXuHg5p

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Programs for the Week: 9–14 July 2019

Join us this week for a variety of exciting programs and exhibitions.

https://t.co/ndioVZ5OJN

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Programs for the Week: 2–7 July 2019

Join us this week for a variety of exciting programs and exhibitions.

https://t.co/ZACApcyXwt

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Programs for the Week: 10–16 June 2019

Happy from the Center! From now through June 16, receive 10 percent off your entire purchase at the Museum Shop.

https://t.co/bHPyrhREe0

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