In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30)Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 194-195, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Sarah Mead Leonard, The Island of Barbados, Yale Center for British Art, 2025, , https://britishart.yale.edu/island-barbadosTodd Longstaffe-Gowan, Mapping a National Style : topography & landscape at the Yale Center for British Art, , Apollo, vol. 165, April 2007, p. 55, fig. 3, N1 A54 + (YCBA)The Yale Center for British Art : An Anniversary Celebration of Paul Mellon's Great Legacy, , Apollo, April 2007, p. 55, fig. 3, N5220 M552 A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA) Appeared as April 2007 issue of Apollo; all of the articles may also be found in bound Apollo Volume [N1 A54 165:2 +]
Gallery Label:
This is the earliest known painting of Barbados, which was colonized by the British in 1627 to exploit its resources for financial gain. When this image was painted, sugar was the island’s primary cash crop. The artist depicts the processes of the sugar industry, which fueled an explosion of wealth for white planters, traders, and colonial officials at the expense of African and Indigenous lives and freedom. Beyond the coastal settlements, the sugarcane grows in fields while the enslaved workers bundle it and carry it away for processing at the mill on the shore to the right of the fort. Nearby, white workers prepare to load the sugar onto the heavily armed merchant ships that will transport it to Britain and its New England colonies for further processing and trade. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2025