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The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art N EWSLETTER Yale University September 2013 Issue 37 The Paul Mellon Centre Staff Director of Studies: Mark Hallett Deputy Director of Studies: Martin Postle Assistant Director for Finance and Administration: Sarah Ruddick Librarian: Emma Floyd Archivist and Records Manager: Charlotte Brunskill Archives and Library Assistant: Jenny Hill Picture Researcher/ Richard Wilson Online Project Assistant: Maisoon Rehani Events Coordinator and Director’s Assistant: Ella Fleming Yale-in-London Coordinator: Nermin Abdulla IT Officer: Zulqarnain Swaleh Grants Administrator: Mary Peskett Smith Editor Special Projects: Guilland Sutherland Senior Research Fellows, Special Projects: Hugh Belsey, Elizabeth Einberg, Alex Kidson, Eric Shanes, Paul Spencer-Longhurst Advisory Council: Iwona Blazwick, Alixe Bovey, David Peters Corbett, Penelope Curtis, Michael Hatt, Nigel Llewellyn, Richard Marks, Andrew Moore, Gavin Stamp, Christine Stevenson, Shearer West, Alison Yarrington Company Registered in England 983028 Registered Charity 313838 16 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JA Tel: 020 7580 0311 Fax: 020 7636 6730 www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk designed to bring different forms of analysis into productive and stimulating dialogue. The first such seminar, which will take place on 20th November 2013, will focus on the great medieval painted Rood Screen at St Helen’s Church, Ranworth. This has recently been the subject of a major conservation project. For more details on this seminar, and on featured speakers, see overleaf. In the autumn, the Paul Mellon Centre is launching a new series of occasional research seminars with the title One Object, Three Voices. In these seminars three speakers with different perspectives on the visual arts will discuss a single object of mutual interest. The seminars, which will take place three times a year and feature contributions from academic art-historians, curators, conservators, historians and art-trade professionals, are One Object, Three Voices Rood screen canopy, St Helen’s Church, Ranworth. Photograph courtesy of Lucy Wrapson, Hamilton Kerr Institute

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Page 1: Newsletter - Issue 37

The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

NEWSLETTERYale University September 2013 Issue 37

The Paul Mellon Centre Staff Director of Studies: Mark Hallett Deputy Director of Studies: Martin Postle

Assistant Director for Finance and Administration: Sarah Ruddick Librarian: Emma Floyd Archivist and Records Manager: Charlotte

Brunskill Archives and Library Assistant: Jenny Hill Picture Researcher/ Richard Wilson Online Project Assistant: Maisoon Rehani

Events Coordinator and Director’s Assistant: Ella Fleming Yale-in-London Coordinator: Nermin Abdulla IT Officer: Zulqarnain Swaleh

Grants Administrator: Mary Peskett Smith Editor Special Projects: Guilland Sutherland Senior Research Fellows, Special Projects:

Hugh Belsey, Elizabeth Einberg, Alex Kidson, Eric Shanes, Paul Spencer-Longhurst

Advisory Council: Iwona Blazwick, Alixe Bovey, David Peters Corbett, Penelope Curtis, Michael Hatt, Nigel Llewellyn, Richard Marks,

Andrew Moore, Gavin Stamp, Christine Stevenson, Shearer West, Alison Yarrington

Company Registered in England 983028 Registered Charity 313838

16 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JA Tel: 020 7580 0311 Fax: 020 7636 6730 www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk

designed to bring different forms of analysis intoproductive and stimulating dialogue.

The first such seminar, which will take place on 20thNovember 2013, will focus on the great medieval paintedRood Screen at St Helen’s Church, Ranworth. This hasrecently been the subject of a major conservation project.

For more details on this seminar, and on featuredspeakers, see overleaf.

In the autumn, the Paul Mellon Centre is launching anew series of occasional research seminars with the titleOne Object, Three Voices. In these seminars three speakerswith different perspectives on the visual arts will discussa single object of mutual interest. The seminars, whichwill take place three times a year and featurecontributions from academic art-historians, curators,conservators, historians and art-trade professionals, are

One Object, Three Voices

Rood screen canopy, St Helen’s Church, Ranworth. Photograph courtesy of Lucy Wrapson, Hamilton Kerr Institute

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THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

RESEARCH LUNCHES

Fridays, 12.30 –2.00 PM

The autumn programme of research lunches is geared todoctoral students and junior scholars working on thehistory of British art and architecture. They are intendedto be informal events in which individual doctoralstudents and scholars talk for half-an-hour about theirprojects, and engage in animated discussion with theirpeers. A sandwich lunch will be provided by the Centre.We hope that this series will help foster a sense ofcommunity amongst PhD students and junior colleaguesfrom a wide range of institutions, and bring researcherstogether in a collegial and friendly atmosphere.

11th OctoberBeatrice Bertram (University of York): Redressing William Etty (1787-1849)

1st NovemberFrancesca Whitlum-Cooper (Courtauld Institute of Art)Quacks, Peddlars and Pastellists: Jean-Etienne Liotard(1702-1789) and Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (1715-1783) inLondon

8th NovemberClare Backhouse (NYU)Straws and Superficials: Clothing the Body inSeventeenth-Century Broadside Ballads.

22nd NovemberShaun Wilcock (University of York) Val Prinsep (1838-1904) and the Politics of the Indian RoyalPortrait at the Imperial Assemblage of 1877

6th December Tom Edwards (Abbott and Holder)Amongst the Grand Tourists: Richard Cooper Jnr’s(1740-1822) album of Italian drawings’

Research Programmes Autumn 2013

RESEARCH SEMINARS

Wednesdays, 5.45 –7.45 PM

Our autumn series of research seminars will featurepapers given by distinguished historians of British artand architecture. Seminars typically take the form ofhour-long talks, followed by questions and drinks, and aregeared to scholars, curators, conservators, art-tradeprofessionals and research students working on thehistory of British art. This autumn the series alsoincludes a new category of seminar entitled One Object,Three Voices, see 20th November below.

2nd OctoberMichael Rosenthal (University of Warwick)Edward Close in Australia: Soldier, Settler, Sketcher

16th October Glenn Adamson (Victoria & Albert Museum)Staging Memory: Ruskin, Morris and the Invention of Craft

6th NovemberSarah Turner (The Paul Mellon Centre)From Ajanta to Sydenham: Indian art, imperial pageants andinternational exhibitions in early twentieth-century London

20th November ONE OBJECT, THREE VOICESThe Rood Sceen at St Helen’s Church, Ranworth. Lucy Wrapson (Hamilton-Kerr Institute)Paul Binski (University of Cambridge)Nicholas Gerrard (St Helen’s Church, Ranworth)

27th November Catherine Bernard (Université Paris Diderot)Sensation (in)to intelligence: the politics of visuality incontemporary English art

Details about the Research Seminars and ResearchLunches can also be found on the Centre’s website. Itis essential that all of those who intend coming toindividual research seminars and research lunchesemail the Centre’s Events Co-ordinator, Ella Fleming,[email protected] at least two days in advance.

To receive regularly updated news on future researchevents to be held at the Centre, please contact EllaFleming on [email protected] and ask to be placed on our email mailing list.

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DR SARAH TURNER has been appointed to the newpost of Assistant Director for Research at the PaulMellon Centre and will take up the position in Novemberthis year, after five years in the History of ArtDepartment at the University of York.

Sarah’s research focuses on art and visual culture inBritain and the British Empire in the 19th and 20thcenturies, particularly relationships between Britain andIndia. Her forthcoming book is provisionally entitledIndian Impressions: Encounters with South Asia in British Art,c. 1900-1940.

Developing from her MA in Sculpture Studies at theUniversity of Leeds, Sarah also continues to work onsculpture in this period; she is a member of the AdvisoryBoard for Tate’s new project on the sculptural practicesof Henry Moore and is contributing to the forthcomingshow on Victorian sculpture at the Yale Center for BritishArt and Tate. Sarah has worked on a number of otherexhibitions including Gilbert & George (Tate Modern,2009) and William Etty: Art & Controversy (York ArtGallery, 2011). She developed an online version of thislatter display.

Sarah is a passionate advocate for the role of digitalmedia in promoting and contributing to art historical

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE

YALE IN LONDON is a study abroad programmeoffered to undergraduate students at Yale University.Students have the opportunity to spend an entire term inthe spring, or one of two more intensive six-weeksummer sessions, based at the Paul Mellon Centre, livingand learning in the heart of London.

The programme offers students courses on a variety ofsubjects that are all thematically linked through their focuson Britain and British culture. The 2013 summer sessions,for example, featured courses on the British monarchy,church architecture, Hogarth, and British theatre, andincluded visits to current London theatre.

Courses are taught by a combination of Yale and Britishfaculty members and qualify for credits toward YaleUniversity degrees. There are regular visits to see plays,palaces, country houses and gardens, churches, and muchmore, and students are encouraged both to explore and tothink about the country in which they are living.

We hope to see Yale in London continue to develop andmaintain its role as a thriving study abroad programme,vital to the Yale experience. For more information on theprogramme and our 2014 courses, please see:

www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/15/ www.britishart.yale.edu/education/yale-college-students/yale-in-london.

Also on Facebook: www.facebook.com/YaleinLondon; and on Twitter: @YaleinLondon

Spotlight on Yale in London

Yale in London Spring 2013 students

Field trip to Stourhead, Summer 2005 Session 2

research. She is lookingforward to working withcolleagues at the PaulMellon Centre in formu-lating new digital projects.

At the Centre, she willalso be taking a major role in conceiving andorganising the Centre’sprogramme of seminars,workshops, lunchtime talks,and conferences. She willalso be continuing her ownscholarly research.

Sarah commented: ‘It is a huge honour to be invited tojoin the staff at the Paul Mellon Centre in London. I amparticularly excited about expanding the PMC’s webpresence and working on innovative digital researchprojects.’ Mark Hallett, Director of Studies at the Centre,said: ‘I am extremely pleased that Sarah is going to bejoining us; she is a brilliant, broad-ranging and dynamicscholar who will undoubtedly make a hugely positivecontribution to our activities. We very much look forwardto welcoming her in November.’

Staff News

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THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE PUBLICATIONS

The King’s Pictures: The Formationand Dispersal of the Collections ofCharles I and His CourtiersFrancis Haskell

With a foreword by Nicholas PennyEdited and with an introduction byKaren Serres

The greatest paintings in today’smost famous museums were once partof a fluid exchange determined byvolatile political fortunes. In the firsthalf of the 17th century, masterpiecesby Titian, Raphael and Leonardo,among others, were the objects offervent pursuit by art connoisseurs.Francis Haskell traces the fate ofcollections extracted from Italy, Spainand France by King Charles I and hiscircle which, after a brief stay inBritain, were largely dispersed afterthe Civil War to princely galleriesacross the Continent. From vivid casestudies of individual collectors,advisers and artists, and acuteanalysis of personality and motive,Haskell challenges ideas about thisepisode in British cultural life andtraces some of the factors that foreverchanged the artistic map of Europe.

Francis Haskell (1928–2000) was oneof the most influential art historians ofthe 20th century. He expanded thediscipline to include the study ofpatronage and collecting, the formationof museums and canons of taste.

September256 pp. 270x217mm.80 colour + 40 b/w illus.HB ISBN 978-0-300-19012-0 £30.00

The City and the King: Architecture and Politics inRestoration LondonChristine Stevenson

The City of London is a jurisdictionwhose relationship with the Englishmonarchy has sometimes beenturbulent. This fascinating bookexplores how architecture was used torenew and redefine a relationshipessential to both parties in the wake oftwo momentous events: the Restorationof the monarchy in 1660 and the GreatFire six years later. Spotlightinglittle-known projects alongside suchlandmarks as Christopher Wren’s St.Paul’s Cathedral, it explores how theywere made to bear meaning. It draws ona range of evidence wide enough tomatch architecture’s resonances for itsprotagonists: paintings, prints andpoetry, sermons and civic ceremonymediated and politicised buildings andbuilt space, as did direct (and sometimesviolent) action. The City and the Kingoffers a nuanced understanding ofarchitecture’s place in early modernEnglish culture. It casts new light onthe reign of Charles II, as on theuniversal mechanisms of construction,decoration and destruction throughwhich we give our monumentssignificance.

Christine Stevenson is senior lecturerat the Courtauld Institute of Art,University of London.

September304 pp. 256x192mm.23 colour + 115 b/w illus.HB ISBN 978-0-300-19022-9 £45.00

Magnificent Entertainments:Temporary Architecture for GeorgianFestivalsMelanie Doderer-Winkler

A thoroughly original study ofephemeral architecture and designwhich examines the spectaculardisplays created for large-scale publiccelebrations in the Georgian period.The book focuses on a number ofspecific events – battle victories andbirthday fêtes – that employed elaboratedecorative measures to outshine thetypical festivities of the day. Some ofthese transformed existing venues intounfamiliar marvels; at other times,completely new settings were devisedfor short-lived occasions. Drawing onsources such as commemorative prints,newspaper accounts and diary entries,the book investigates how essentialthese fanciful designs were in creatingevents with lasting impact and popularappeal. The author also delves into thevarious materials used for constructionand embellishment, applications ofsugar, sand, marble dust or chalk lentluster and colour to surfaces, whilestand-alone firework temples andtemporary reception rooms were oftencrafted of little more than wood, canvas,paint and paste..Melanie Doderer-Winkler is anindependent scholar and a formerfurniture specialist at Christie’s,London.

September320 pp. 292x241mm.133 colour + 100 b/w illus.HB ISBN 978-0-300-18642-0 £40.00

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PUBLICATIONS THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE

The Sheldonian Theatre: Architecture and Learning inSeventeenth-Century OxfordAnthony Geraghty

A jewel of the University of Oxford, theSheldonian Theatre stands out amongthe groundbreaking designs by thegreat British architect Sir ChristopherWren. Published to coincide with the350th anniversary of the building’sconstruction, this meticulouslyresearched book takes a fresh look at thehistorical influences that shaped theSheldonian’s development, includingthe Restoration of the Englishmonarchy and the university’scommitment to episcopal religion. Thebook explains just how novel Wren’sdesign was in its day, in part because theacademic theatre was a building typewithout precedent in England, and inpart because the Sheldonian’s classicalstyle stood apart in its universitycontext. The author also points to ashift in the guiding motivation behindthe architecture at Oxford: from atradition that largely perpetuatedmedieval forms to one that conceivedclassical architecture in relation to late Renaissance learning. Newlycommissioned photographs showcasethe theatre’s recently restored interior.

Anthony Geraghty is senior lecturer in the history of art at the University of York.

September168 pp. 256x192mm.40 colour + 10 b/w illus.HB ISBN 978-0-300-19504-0 £35.00

Landscapes of London:The City, the Country and theSuburbs 1660–1840Elizabeth McKellar

The idea of a ‘Greater London’emerged in the 18th century with theexpansion of the city’s suburbs.Elizabeth McKellar traces this growthback to the 17th century, whendomestic retreats were established inoutlying areas. This transitional zonewas occupied and shaped by the urbanmiddle class as much as by the elitewho built villas there. McKellarprovides the first major inter-disciplinary cultural history of thisarea, analysing it in relation to keyarchitectural and planning debates andto concepts of national, social andgender identities. She draws on a widerange of source materials, includingprints, paintings, maps, poetry, songs,newspapers, guidebooks and otherpopular literature, as well as buildingsand landscapes. The author suggeststhat these suburban landscapes – thefirst in the world – were a newenvironment, but one in which thevernacular, the rustic and the historicplayed a substantial part, theforerunner of the complex, multi-faceted modern cities of today.

Elizabeth McKellar is SeniorLecturer and Staff Tutor in ArtHistory at the Open University.

December256 pp. 285x245mm.24 colour + 120 b/w illus.HB ISBN 978-0-300-10913-9 £45.00

The Arts and Crafts Movement inScotland: A HistoryAnnette Carruthers

This authoritative book is the first tochronicle the Arts and Craftsmovement in Scotland. Arts andCrafts ideas appeared there from the1860s, but not until after 1890 didthey emerge from artistic circles andrise to popularity among the widerpublic. The heyday of the movement,between 1890 and 1914, was a timewhen Scotland’s art schoolsenergetically promoted new designand the Scottish Home IndustriesAssociation campaigned to reviverural crafts. The movement influencedthe look of domestic and churchbuildings, as well as the stained glass,metalwork, textiles and otherfurnishings that adorned them. Artschools, workshops and associationshelped shape the Arts and Craftsstyle, as did individuals such as AnnMacbeth, W. R. Lethaby, RobertLorimer, M. H. Baillie Scott, DouglasStrachan, Phoebe Traquair and JamesCromar Watt. These architects,artists, and designers contributed tothe expansion and evolution of themovement both within and beyondScotland’s borders.

Annette Carruthers is a seniorlecturer in the School of Art Historyat the University of St Andrews.

October 468 pp. 285x245mm.100 colour + 250 b/w illus.HB ISBN 978-0-300-19576-7 £60.00

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THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE PUBLICATIONS

From Still Life to the Screen:Print Culture, Display, and theMateriality of the Image inEighteenth-Century LondonJoseph Monteyne

This book explores the print cultureof 18th-century London, focusing onthe correspondences between imagesand consumer objects. In his livelyand insightful text, Joseph Monteyneconsiders such themes as the displayof objects in still lifes and markets, theconnoisseur’s fetishistic gaze, and thefusion of body and ornament in satiresof fashion. The desire for goodsemerged in tandem with modernnotions of identity, in which thingswere seen to mirror and symbolise theself. Prints, particularly graphicsatires by such artists as Matthew andMary Darly, James Gillray, WilliamHogarth, Thomas Rowlandson andPaul Sandby, were actively involved inthis shift. Many of these imagesreveal the recurring motif of imagedisplay, whether on screens, by magiclanterns, or in ‘raree-shows’ andprint-shop windows. The author linksthis motif to new conceptions of theself, specifically through thepenetration of spectacle into everydayexperience.

Joseph Monteyne is associateprofessor in the history of art at theUniversity of British Columbia.

August 288 pp. 256x192mm. 55 colour + 101 b/w illus.HB ISBN 978-0-300-19635-1 £35.00

Exhibiting Englishness: John Boydell’s Shakespeare Galleryand the Formation of a NationalAestheticRosie Dias

In the late 18th century, as a wave ofEnglish nationalism swept thecountry, the printseller John Boydellset out to create an ambitiousexhibition space, one devoted topromoting and fostering a distinctlyEnglish style of history painting.With its very name, the ShakespeareGallery signalled to Londoners thatthe artworks on display shared anundisputed quality and a nationalspirit. The responses of key artists ofthe period to Boydell’s venture shednew light on the gallery’s role in thelarger context of British art. Thebook analyses the works of suchartists as Joshua Reynolds, HenryFuseli, James Northcote, RobertSmirke, Thomas Banks and WilliamHamilton, laying out their diverseways of expressing notions ofindividualism, humour, eccentricityand naturalism. It also argues thatBoydell’s gallery radically redefinedthe dynamics of display and culturalaesthetics at that time, shaping bothan English school of painting andmodern exhibition practices.

Rosie Dias is associate professor inthe history of art at the University ofWarwick.

August 288 pp. 256x192mm. 50 colour + 95 b/w illus.HB ISBN 978-0-300-19668-9 £45.00

SURVEY OF LONDONVolumes 49 and 50 BATTERSEA

The south London parish of Batterseahas its roots as a working village,growing produce for London markets,and as a high-class suburb, withmerchants’ villas on the elevatedground around Clapham andWandsworth Commons. Batterseaenjoyed spectacular growth duringQueen Victoria’s reign, and railroadsbrought industry and a robustbuilding boom. The two latestvolumes of the Survey of Londontrace Battersea’s development frommedieval times to the present day.Offering detailed analysis of itsstreets and buildings, the books are atrove of architectural and Britishhistory. Profusely illustrated with newand archival images, architecturaldrawings and maps, these volumes arewelcome additions to the acclaimedSurvey of London series.

Andrew Saint, vol. 49, is the generaleditor of the Survey of London and theauthor of Richard Norman Shaw. Colin Thom, vol. 50, is senior historian,Survey of London, English Heritage.

49: Public, Commercial and CulturalNovember 520 pp. 286x222mm.200 colour + 250 b/w illus.HB ISBN 978-0-300-19616-0 £75.0050: Houses and HousingNovember 520 pp. 286x222mm.200 colour + 250 b/w illus.HB ISBN 978-0-300-19617-7 £75.00

2-volume setHB ISBN 978-0-300-19813-3 £135.00

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RESEARCHING THE COUNTRY HOUSE

One of the key subject strengths of the collections ismaterial relating to the Country House. The Library’sholdings are particularly strong in this area and includebooks on the history of country houses and theirarchitecture and collections; multiple editions of guides toindividual houses; family histories; and auction cataloguesof country house ‘on the premises’ sales. Materials on suchcomplementary subjects as garden design, interiordecoration, and furniture are also collected.

In the Archive, the notebooks of Sir Oliver Millar(1923-2007) are a significant resource. Millar worked inthe Royal Household from 1947, eventually becomingSurveyor of the Queen’s Pictures (1972-1988). Through -out this time, and almost until his death, he maintained aseries of notebooks in which he documented hisobservations and opinions on the art and related materialhe viewed in private and public collections in the UK andall over the world. There are 30 notebooks in total, whichMillar meticulously indexed by both collection and artist.The material is an incredible resource for scholars, who areable to pinpoint relevant material with ease.

The Brinsley Ford Archive also contains material ofvalue for researchers interested in the country house. SirBrinsley Ford (1908-1999) was a gentleman-scholar,connoisseur and collector who spent over 40 yearsresearching the Grand Tour. His archive contains a seriesof files (828 in total) pertaining to British and Irishtravellers to Italy in the eighteenth century. The files arefull of information about travellers who, inspired by thearchitecture they saw, returned home to develop theirown estates. They also contain information on the art,books, pictures, sculpture, and items of culture, whichwere acquired on the tour and shipped home for displayin country houses all over the United Kingdom.

As well as containing images of paintings andsculpture in country houses, the Centre’s PhotographicArchive contains two other useful sequences of material:the Decorative Painting section, which includes images oftown and country house interiors; and the Sculpture byLocation section which contains images of country housecollections of sculpture.

After a recent Research Lunch, on 24th May given byJocelyn Anderson on ‘Ornaments and Honours: CountryHouses as Cultural Treasures in the EighteenthCentury’, Collections’, staff spoke to participants aboutmaterial of relevance to the subject held in the Library,Archive and Photographic Archive. A display of carefullyselected items was made available in the Public StudyRoom, organised into several groups of material, eachfocusing on a particular house or collection: BlenheimPalace; Castle Howard; Ickworth; Strawberry Hill; andChatsworth. The section on the latter, for example,included country-house guides dating from the 1970s, insome cases interleaved with room guides, and booksdating from the late nineteenth century onwards. Theseitems were complemented by the Oliver Millar notebookswhich include many pages of detailed references madeduring visits to Chatsworth in 1948 and 1997 and whichinclude diagrams of decorative features on the walls andceilings of several locations in the house. A file of imagesfrom the PMC’s Photographic Archive, including imagestaken in Chatsworth of decorative panels in variousrooms, completed the display.

Collections staff are happy to provide tours for scholars.Please contact us on: [email protected].

COLLECTIONS THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE

Collections News

A selection of materials from the

Library Collection relating to

Chatsworth

Millar’s observations on a visit to

Chatsworth House in 1947, p. 57,

Notebook IV, Oliver Millar Archive

Fellowships and GrantsNew Mid-Career Fellowship AnnouncedA new category of fellowship aimed at Mid-Careerscholars will be instigated from the academic year2014/2015 to bridge the perceived gap between ourSenior and Postdoctoral Fellowships. The Paul MellonCentre plans to award three Mid-Career Fellowshipsannually, they will each carry funding of £12,000 andwill be for a four-month period. The closing date for allour 2014/2015 fellowships is 15 January 2014.Further details and application forms can be found atwww.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/17/

Closing date reminder The closing date for the Autumn round of grants is 15September 2013. Full details and application forms areon our website at www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/179/

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L E C T U R E S

The Military Artist in Jamaica and India: Abraham James and the Representation of Colonial Martial MasculinityFRIDAY, 4 OCTOBER, 5 :30 PM

K. Dian Kriz, Professor Emerita of Art History, Brown University

In this keynote lecture for The Ends of War, the 2013 conference of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Dian Kriz examines images of the martial body by an amateur artist and professional soldier at the turn of the nineteenth century.

Authorial Identity and the Languages of Late Elizabethan and Jacobean Portraiture WEDNESDAY, 16 OCTOBER, 5:30 PM Tarnya Cooper, Chief Curator, National Portrait Gallery, London

This talk will explore how the growth of interest in portraiture in the late sixteenth century provoked the invention of different modes of portrayal.

The Ladies Library: Or, Benjamin Franklin’s Sister’s Books FRIDAY, 8 NOVEMBER, 5 :30 PM Lewis Walpole Library Lecture Jill Lepore, Professor of American History, Harvard University

The author of Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, Jill Lepore will discuss her work reconstituting the lost library of Benjamin Franklin’s sister.

Sculpture by Nicola Hicks WEDNESDAY, 13 NOVEMBER, 5 :30 PM An opening conversation between artist Nicola Hicks and independent art curator and writer Patterson Sims.

E X H I B I T I O N S

The following have been organ ized by the Yale Center for British Art.

Sculpture by Nicola Hicks14 NOVEMBER 2013–9 MARCH 2014

The work of British sculptor Nicola Hicks, MBE, is almost exclusively concerned with animals. Her striking, often life-size creatures are typically executed in straw and plaster, and often cast in bronze. This exhibition brings together seven works by Hicks, which will be displayed amidst works from the Center’s permanent collection. The exhibition has been selected by Nicola Hicks in conjunction with Martina Droth, Associate Director of Research and Education and Curator of Sculpture at the Center, with Lars Kokkonen, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Research.

Art in Focus: St Ives AbstractionSTUDENT GUIDE EXHIBITION

THROUGH 29 SEPTEMBER

Curated by Yale undergraduates in the Student Guide Program and drawn from the Center’s collections, this exhibition focuses on paintings and sculptures by artists working in St Ives in the mid-twentieth century. Artists featured include Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, John Wells, Roger Hilton, and Patrick Heron.

P U B L I C AT I O N

William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography Edited by Mirjam Brusius, Katrina Dean, and Chitra Ramalingam, this book is the twenty-third volume in the series Studies in British Art, published by the Center and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, in association with Yale University Press.

B U I L D I N G CO N S E RVAT I O NThe first phase of the Center’s building conservation project began in the summer and is expected to continue until January 2014. During this time, the Center (including the Reference Library and Museum Shop) is open for its regular hours and the fourth-floor galleries displaying the Center’s collection of British art through 1850 remain on view. However, access to the Prints and Drawings, and Rare Books and Manuscripts collections is available by appointment only, and two weeks’ advance notice will be necessary.

Due to the extensive work on the build-ing, the next cycle of Visiting Scholar Awards will be for the period 1 July 2014 to 31 December 2014. Regrettably, the Center will be unable to accom-modate visiting scholars in 2015. Applicants should take these restricted dates into account when stating their preferred month(s) of tenure.

More information about the Visiting Scholar

program may be found online at britishart.

yale.edu/research/visiting-scholars.

Nicola Hicks, Black, 2008, bronze, © Nicola Hicks. Courtesy Flowers Gallery

ya l e c e n t e r f o r b r i t i s h a r t For complete details of the following exhibitions and programs, please visit britishart.yale.edu, phone +1 203 432 2800, or email [email protected] Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 USA