Private curator-led tour at the newly reopened Yale Center for British Art!

Meet in the Entrance Court. Greeting by Martina Droth, Paul Mellon Director.

About In a New Light: Five Centuries of British Art:
This installation sheds light on the surprising and complicated history of British art, bringing into focus the people and cultures that produced these artworks. From the sixteenth century to the present, Britain has attracted artists from all over the world, with their outputs as diverse as their origins. Many artists traveled or migrated to India, the Caribbean, and beyond. Individual and family portraits uncover the systems of class, gender, and race that undergirded societies around the globe and privileged the wealthy and influential. Other works depict landscapes, seascapes, manor houses, and cathedrals, often offering a record of the industrialization of an agrarian world. Allegorical, historical, and religious subjects further enrich our understanding of the expansive culture of a changing nation.

About J. M. W. Turner: Romance and Reality:

This exhibition, the first focused on Turner to be held at the Yale Center for British Art in more than thirty years, showcases the museum’s rich holdings of the artist’s work. Unequaled in North America, this collection includes some of Turner’s most acclaimed oil paintings, notably his masterpiece Dort, or Dordrecht: The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed (1818) and his celebrated later painting Staffa, Fingal’s Cave (exhibited 1832). Alongside these major works, the exhibition features outstanding watercolors and prints from the YCBA’s collection, including the artist’s only complete sketchbook outside of the British Isles.

12 pm: LUNCH AT ATELIER FLORIAN, 1166 Chapel Street (self-pay)

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