Regent's University London Library
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Essays -- Paul Mellon: a remembrance / John Baskett -- Paul Mellon and the architecture of the Yale Center for British Art / Jules David Prown -- Paul Mellon and the Yale Center for British Art / Duncan Robinson -- Paul Mellon and scholarship in the history of British art / Brian Allen -- Paul Mellon as a book collector / William Reese.

9780300259520

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Paul Mellon (1907-1999) was an unparalleled collector of British art. His collection, now at Yale in the museum and study center he founded to house it, rivals those in Britain's national museums and is unquestionably the most comprehensive representation of British art held outside of the United Kingdom. This book celebrates the centenary of his birth. Five introductory essays examine Mellon's extraordinary collecting activity, as well as his role in creating both the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London as gifts to his alma mater (Yale 1929). The catalogue section showcases 148 of the most exquisite and important paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, sculpture, rare books, and manuscript material in the Yale Center's collection, including major works by Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, George Stubbs, John Constable, and J. M. W. Turner.

2022