The Elizabethan Image by Sir Roy Strong – An Extract
In November 1558, Elizabeth I ascended the throne and was confronted with a politically, socially, and culturally fractured…
British Art
Haunted by Whistler: Dan Sutherland on his biography of an elusive genius
Daniel E. Sutherland’s biography of luminary American artist James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) is not only the first in…
Arts and Crafts Stained Glass: a short film
‘Windows should dream.’ – Christopher Whall Gloriously illustrated, and based on more than three decades of research, Arts…
Samuel Palmer: Shadows on the Wall
Nineteenth-century Britain produced some of the most notable and innovative landscape painters of all time and saw the…
John Singer Sargent: A Portrait in Paintings
John Singer Sargent was one of the most celebrated painters of his generation, perhaps best known for his…
John Singer Sargent: the Complete Paintings
Yale’s series of books cataloguing the complete paintings of John Singer Sargent nears completion with the release of…
In the Olden Time: Victorians and the British Past
‘When the painter Henry Wallis first exhibited his Chatterton at the Royal Academy in 1856 the painting was…
Yale books prevail at the 2012 William M.B. Berger Prize for British Art History
Yale University Press is proud to announce that The Eighteenth Century Church in Britain by Terry Friedman has been awarded…
William Nicholson exhibition opens today, accompanying a new catalogue raisonné
To celebrate the publication of William Nicholson: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings by Patricia Reed, the Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert…
Contemporary British Artists: John Hoyland
Continuing our new series of blogs looking at contemporary British artists, we take a look at one of…
Contemporary British Artists: Elizabeth Blackadder
In a new series of blog posts starting this week, we look at contemporary British artists and accompanying…
Castles, Churches and Imperial Landscapes: Books published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
For many years Yale University Press have published high-quality art books in association with the Paul Mellon Centre….