Materials & Techniques: graphite / Work Type: drawing / Subject Terms: abstract art

1. 1940 (composition)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: between 1940 and 1947
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and graphite on board
Dimensions:: Frame: 8 7/16 × 8 7/16 × 1 inches (21.5 × 21.5 × 2.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. May 2-54 (prelude)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982
Date:: ca. 1954
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 16 3/4in. (29.2 x 42.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Block, Sr., class of 1936, and Mrs. Block

3. Design for Omega Workshops Fabric

Creator:: Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961
Date:: 1913
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove graph paper
Dimensions:: Image: 21 × 16 inches (53.3 × 40.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

4. Study for a Sculptural Column

Creator:: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891–1915
Date:: between 1910 and 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Brushed black ink, brown wash, red colored pencil and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches (29.2 x 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

5. Relief Design of an Abstract Female Figure

Creator:: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891–1915
Date:: between 1910 and 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Brushed black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (29.2 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

6. Standing Female Figure

Creator:: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891–1915
Date:: between 1910 and 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Brushed black ink, brown wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 7 1/8 inches (29.2 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

7. Five Studies for a Sculpture

Creator:: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891–1915
Date:: between 1910 and 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Black ink and graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches (14.6 x 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

8. Study of a Female Figure, Abstract Figure Study

Creator:: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891–1915
Date:: between 1910 and 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Brushed black ink, graphite and red pencil on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 8 7/8 inches (17.8 x 22.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

9. Five Abstract Sketches, and Studies for Male and Female Figures

Creator:: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891–1915
Date:: between 1910 and 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Brushed black ink, graphite and red pencil on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 8 7/8 inches (17.8 x 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

10. Two Dancing Figures and Five Studies for a Mother and Child Grouping

Creator:: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891–1915
Date:: between 1910 and 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Brushed black ink, graphite, red colored pencil on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 x 17 3/4 inches (14.6 x 45.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

11. Study for a Figural Sculpture, Crouching Figure

Creator:: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891–1915
Date:: between 1910 and 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Brushed black ink, graphite and red pencil on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 8 7/8 inches (17.8 x 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

12. Circle Enclosed

Creator:: Alastair Morton, 1910–1963
Date:: ca. 1941
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, crayon, graphite, and scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 x 20 inches (35.6 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

13. Drawing for Page 15 of "Rough Ride"

Creator:: David Tremlett, born 1945
Date:: 1985
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pastel on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 8 1/4 inches (14.9 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. Reclining Figure

Creator:: Henry Moore, 1898–1986
Date:: 1939
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, white chalk, graphite, gray wash and crayon on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 30 3/4 x 35 1/2 x 3 inches (78.1 x 90.2 x 7.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jeffrey H. Loria, Yale BA 1962, in memory of Harriet Loria Popowitz

15. Red and Blue

Creator:: Bridget Riley, born 1931
Date:: October 1969
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and graphite on board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 39 1/2 × 26 1/2 inches (100.3 × 67.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Russell

16. Design for street decoration, Coronation 1953

Creator:: Robin Ironside, 1912–1965
Date:: ca. 1953
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 12 3/4 inches (26.7 × 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

17. Drawing for Page 13 of "Rough Ride"

Creator:: David Tremlett, born 1945
Date:: 1985
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel and graphite on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 8 1/4 inches (14.9 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

18. Cliffs

Creator:: Paul Nash, 1889–1946
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 × 6 3/4 inches (25.1 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

19. Drawing for Page 18 of "Rough Ride"

Creator:: David Tremlett, born 1945
Date:: 1985
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 8 1/4 inches (14.9 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

20. Faim, Soif, Cris, Danse, Danse, Danse

Creator:: Keith Vaughan, 1912–1977
Date:: 1949
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 6 1/2 inches (26.7 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

21. Illustration to "Beyond This Limit"

Creator:: Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 7 3/8 inches (27.3 x 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. Study for "Reading from Torah"

Creator:: David Bomberg, 1890–1957
Date:: ca. 1914
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, watercolor and graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 12 7/8 inches (25.4 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

23. Six Studies

Creator:: Alastair Morton, 1910–1963
Date:: 1941
Materials & Techniques:: Crayon, graphite, and colored pencil on medium, moderately textured cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 8 1/2 inches (30.2 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

24. Owl

Creator:: Print made by Graham Vivian Sutherland, 1903–1980
Date:: 1968
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with gouache, watercolor, ink, wash, charcoal, chalk pastel and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 3/4 x 19 9/16 inches (65.4 x 49.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

25. Sunlight and Shadows

Creator:: Edward Bawden, 1903–1989
Date:: 1936
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, graphite, pen and black ink, gray ink, brown ink, and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 x 22 3/8in. (46 x 56.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

26. Porthleven, 1922

Creator:: Frederick Etchells, 1886–1973
Date:: 1922
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gouache, gum arabic and graphite on very thick, moderately textured, beige card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/16 × 18 5/8 inches (33.5 × 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

27. To My Constant Visitors

Creator:: Michael Challenger, born 1939
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, smooth, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 11 3/4 inches (22.9 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Richard H. Ullman

28. Drawing for Page 2 of "Rough Ride" - Irangi

Creator:: David Tremlett, born 1945
Date:: 1985
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel and graphite on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 8 1/4 inches (14.9 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

29. Drawing for Page 5 of "Rough Ride" - Corroboree

Creator:: David Tremlett, born 1945
Date:: 1985
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pastel on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 8 1/4 inches (14.9 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

30. Drawing for Page 8 of "Rough Ride"

Creator:: David Tremlett, born 1945
Date:: 1985
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel and graphite on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 8 1/4 inches (14.9 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

31. Drawing for Page 11 of "Rough Ride" - Once Had a Donkey / Ride Up and Find It

Creator:: David Tremlett, born 1945
Date:: 1985
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel and graphite on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 8 1/4 inches (14.9 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. Drawing for Page 14 of "Rough Ride"

Creator:: David Tremlett, born 1945
Date:: 1985
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pastel on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 × 16 inches (15.2 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

33. Troubadors

Creator:: William Roberts, 1895–1980
Date:: ca. 1919
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/16 × 13 1/4 inches (23 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

34. Seated Woman

Creator:: Jessica Dismorr, 1885–1939
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and graphite on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 15/16 × 2 13/16 inches (7.5 × 7.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection

35. Female Nude and Horse

Creator:: Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957
Date:: ca. 1925
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 6 15/16 inches (22.6 x 17.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection

36. Castel Meur, Rocky Coast, Brittany

Creator:: John Piper, 1903–1992
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pastel on medium, smooth, cream graph paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 13 3/4 inches (22.5 × 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

37. Composition (Diptych), 1/1

Creator:: Print made by Oleg Kudryashov, born 1932
Date:: 1989
Materials & Techniques:: Drypoint, gouache, watercolor and graphite on Vélin d'Arches 300 gsm paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 40 × 28 inches (101.6 × 71.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Masterman, Culbert & Tully, LLP

38. Rug Design

Creator:: Duncan Grant, 1885–1978
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 x 15 1/2 inches (20.3 x 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker

39. Kermesse

Creator:: Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957
Date:: 1912
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, watercolor, pen and black ink, black wash and graphite on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 12 inches (30.2 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund and Gift of Neil F. and Ivan E. Phillips in memory of their mother, Mrs. Rosalie Phillips

40. Mornington Crescent

Creator:: Frank Auerbach, born 1931
Date:: ca. 1970
Materials & Techniques:: Oil pastel and graphite on thin, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 8 3/4 inches (17.5 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dorothy C. Weicker in honor and memory of her parents, Beatrice Trostel and Frederick E. Weicker, Yale BS 1931

41. St. Alban's

Creator:: Jane Dixon, born 1963
Date:: 2010
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite rubbing on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 × 19 1/2 inches (73.7 × 49.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky in honor of Driek's parents, Gertrude Bersch Bestebreurtze and Arie D. Bestebreurtze

42. Greyfriars

Creator:: Jane Dixon, born 1963
Date:: 2010
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite rubbing on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 34 1/4 × 23 1/2 × 1 1/2 inches (87 × 59.7 × 3.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky in honor of Driek's parents, Gertrude Bersch Bestebreurtze and Arie D. Bestebreurtze

43. Two Abstract Figures

Creator:: Jessica Dismorr, 1885–1939
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black ink, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper on board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 × 11 inches (37.5 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection

44. Man with a Book and Sword Standing on a Snake

Creator:: Jessica Dismorr, 1885–1939
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and graphite on medium cream slightly textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 15/16 × 1 11/16 inches (7.5 × 4.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection

45. Two Figures

Creator:: Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957
Date:: ca. 1912
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, pen and black ink, black chalk and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 9 5/8 inches (31.8 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection

46. Map of Remains

Creator:: Jane Dixon, born 1963
Date:: 2010
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite rubbing on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/4 × 29 7/8 inches (45.1 × 75.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky in honor of Driek's parents, Gertrude Bersch Bestebreurtze and Arie D. Bestebreurtze

47. Two Circles

Creator:: Dame Barbara Hepworth, 1903–1975
Date:: 1946
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gouache on lightly textured, white card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 18 1/4 inches (24.4 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. St. Augustine's

Creator:: Jane Dixon, born 1963
Date:: 2010
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite rubbing on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 3/4 × 19 5/8 inches (75.6 × 49.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky in honor of Driek's parents, Gertrude Bersch Bestebreurtze and Arie D. Bestebreurtze

49. Birches Leaning Out of Square

Creator:: David Nash, born 1945
Date:: 1992
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, black chalk, and graphite on white Rives Blanc wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 11 1/8 inches (25.4 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

50. Untitled

Creator:: Richard Smith, 1931–2016
Date:: 1965
Materials & Techniques:: Mixed media collage on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 17 inches (35.6 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of R. B. Kitaj

51. Untitled

Creator:: Robert Medley, 1905–1994
Date:: 1962
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of R. B. Kitaj

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1. 1940 (composition)

2. May 2-54 (prelude)

3. Design for Omega Workshops Fabric

4. Study for a Sculptural Column

5. Relief Design of an Abstract Female Figure

6. Standing Female Figure

7. Five Studies for a Sculpture

8. Study of a Female Figure, Abstract Figure Study

9. Five Abstract Sketches, and Studies for Male and Female Figures

10. Two Dancing Figures and Five Studies for a Mother and Child Grouping

11. Study for a Figural Sculpture, Crouching Figure

12. Circle Enclosed

13. Drawing for Page 15 of "Rough Ride"

14. Reclining Figure

15. Red and Blue

16. Design for street decoration, Coronation 1953

17. Drawing for Page 13 of "Rough Ride"

18. Cliffs

19. Drawing for Page 18 of "Rough Ride"

20. Faim, Soif, Cris, Danse, Danse, Danse

21. Illustration to "Beyond This Limit"

22. Study for "Reading from Torah"

23. Six Studies

24. Owl

25. Sunlight and Shadows

26. Porthleven, 1922

27. To My Constant Visitors

28. Drawing for Page 2 of "Rough Ride" - Irangi

29. Drawing for Page 5 of "Rough Ride" - Corroboree

30. Drawing for Page 8 of "Rough Ride"

31. Drawing for Page 11 of "Rough Ride" - Once Had a Donkey / Ride Up and Find It

32. Drawing for Page 14 of "Rough Ride"

33. Troubadors

34. Seated Woman

35. Female Nude and Horse

36. Castel Meur, Rocky Coast, Brittany

37. Composition (Diptych), 1/1

38. Rug Design

39. Kermesse

40. Mornington Crescent

41. St. Alban's

42. Greyfriars

43. Two Abstract Figures

44. Man with a Book and Sword Standing on a Snake

45. Two Figures

46. Map of Remains

47. Two Circles

48. St. Augustine's

49. Birches Leaning Out of Square

50. Untitled

51. Untitled