Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)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)George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2000-02-14 - 2000-05-15)George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-30 - 1999-09-05)Stubbs - An Exhibition in Honor of Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1985-04-11 - 1985-05-04)George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery (Tate Britain, 1984-10-17 - 1985-01-06)George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-02-13 - 1985-04-07)
Publications:
David Alexander, Painters and Engraving: The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, p. 50, no. 100, NE631.2 .A43 (YCBA)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. 253, no. 26, pl. 26, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, George Stubbs in the collection of Paul Mellon : A memorial exhibition, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1999, p. 80, no. 61, NJ18 St915 G54 1999 (YCBA)Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 90-91, no. 87, Colour Pl. 15, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Judy Egerton, George Stubbs, 1724-1806, [exhibition] Tate Gallery. , Tate Publishing, London, 1984, p. 123, no. 86, NJ18 St915 E43 (YCBA) +Judy Egerton, George Stubbs, painter : catalogue raisonne, , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2007, pp. 66-7, 406-8, no. 202, fig. 3, NJ18 St915 A12 +E44 2007 (YCBA)George Stubbs as a Printmaker, Print Collector's Newsletter, September/October 1982, pp. 113-116, NE1 P76 OVERSIZE (HAAS)Alex Kidson, Earlier British paintings in the Walker Art Gallery and Sudley House, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2012, p. 173, fn 1, ND466 .K537 2012 (YCBA)C. A. Lennox-Boyd, George Stubbs, the complete engraved works , Stipple, Warren Farm House, Culham, Abingdon, OX New York : Distributed b, 1989, NJ18 St915 A12 L45 (YCBA)Mr Paul Mellon, Reflections in a silver spoon : a memoir, , W. Morrow, New York, 1992, p. 281, N5220 M552 1992 (YCBA)Venetia Morrison, The art of George Stubbs, Wellfleet Press, Seacaucus, N.J., 1989, p. 145, NJ18 St915 M67 1989+ (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 3, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, Paul Mellon: a Cambridge tribute, , The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge [England], 2007, pp. 26-7, 50, N5220 M552 P36 2007 (YCBA)Sleeping Leopard, Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, June 1981, p. 192, J418 C65D (SML)Stubbs, an exhibition in honor of Paul Mellon : National Gallery of Art, 4 May-2 June 1985. , National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985, pp. 7, 9, no. 29, V 0413 (YCBA)Bruce Tattersall, A Sleeping Leopard by George Stubbs, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 118, No.885, December 1976, pp. 848-51, fig. 93, N1 B87 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)Basil Taylor, Stubbs, Phaidon, London, 1975, uhy, fig. 12, NJ18 St915 T39 1975 (YCBA) +Malcolm Warner, The Paul Mellon Bequest : treasures of a lifetime, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 19, N5247 M385 P28 2001 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Stubbs was an incessant experimenter always alert to the potential of new technologies. He had long explored painting enamel on copper but this is the first enamel Stubbs ever made on a ceramic support. He formed a close friendship with the potter and industrialist Josiah Wedgwood who was developing new techniques for the manufacture and distribution of ceramic tableware. In this case Stubbs appears to have taken an oval section of earthenware from a previously manufactured Wedgwood dish, painted it with enamel, and then re-fired it. This experimental object led to a close collaboration between artist and potter, the latter beginning to make large earthenware plaques specifically for Stubbs to paint on, one of which is shown nearby. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2022