Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959, British
Title:
Paul Mellon on Dublin
Date:
1933
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
31 × 37 1/2 inches (78.7 × 95.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in brown paint, lower right: "A. J. Munnings"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
© Estate of Sir Alfred Munnings
Accession Number:
B2001.2.230
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
costume | portrait | equestrian | riding | rural | landscape | sporting art | animals | dogs (animals) | horse (animal)
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Munnings - Out in the Open (National Sporting Library and Museum, 2013-04-24 - 2013-09-15)

An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)

An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)

Paul Mellon - A Cambridge Tribute (The Fitzwilliam Museum, 2007-06-12 - 2007-09-23)

The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29)

The Mastery of Munnings (National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, 2000-07-08 - 2000-09-05)
Publications:
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 297, no. 116, pl. 116, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Stanley Booth, Alfred Munnings, 1878-1959, a centenary tribute. An appreciation of the artist and a selection of his paintings / by Stanley Booth. , Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd, London, UK, 1978, pp. 188-189, Folio A N 42 (YCBA)

Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, pp. 57, 370, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBA

Malcolm Cormack, Country pursuits: British, American, and French sporting art from the Mellon collections in the Virginia Museum Of Fine Arts, , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Charlottesville, 2007, pp. 59, 60, fig. 37, ND1383 G7 V57 2007 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Editorial : Paul Mellon (1907-99), Burlington Magazine, vol. 149, October 2007, p. 671, fig. 1, N1 .B87 Oversize (YCBA)

Mr Paul Mellon, Reflections in a silver spoon, a memoir , W. Morrow, New York, 1992, pp. 228-29, N5220 M552 1992 (YCBA)

Amy Meyers, Modesty and Munificence, Apollo, v. 165, no. 542, April 2007, p. 30, fig. 3, N1 A54 + (YCBA)

Munnings, Out in the Open : the open-air works of Sir Alfred James Munnings (English, 1878-1959) , National Sporting Library and Museum, Middleburg, VA, 2013, pp. 51, 70-71, 128, Pl. 42, NJ18.M9625 M8 2013 (YCBA)

Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 1, no. 116, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Lorian Peralta-Ramos, The mastery of Munnings, Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878-1959 , National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, Saratoga Springs, New York, 2000, pp. 49-50, NJ18 M9625 P47 2000 + (YCBA)

Duncan Robinson, Paul Mellon: a Cambridge tribute, , The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge [England], 2007, p. 18, 46, cover, N5220 M552 P36 2007 (YCBA)

The life and work of Sir Alfred Munnings, the National Horseracing Museum's exhibition : April 18th until November 4th, 2007 , National Horse Racing Museum, Newmarket [England, 2007, inside back cover, NJ18.M9625 L55 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Malcolm Warner, Great British paintings from American collections : Holbein to Hockney, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 14, fig. 17, ND464 W27 2001 (YCBA)

Malcolm Warner, The Paul Mellon Bequest : treasures of a lifetime, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 13, N5247 M385 P28 2001 (YCBA)

Giles Waterfield, Mr. Mellon, RA : the magazine for the Friends of the Royal Academy, No. 96, Autumn 2007, p. 71, V 1905 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:17299