NEWSLETTER - Paul Mellon Centre

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Full details of the following exhibitions and programs
can be found at www.yale.edu/ycba, by telephoning
001 203 432 2800, or by e-mailing ycba.info@yale.edu.
exhibitions
Paintings from the Reign of Victoria: The Royal Holloway Collection,
London, through 26 July 2009. Organized and circulated by Art
Services International, Alexandria, Virginia.
Seascapes: Paintings and Watercolors from the U Collection, through
23 August 2009. Organized by the Yale Center for British Art.
Dalou in England: Portraits of Womanhood, 1871–1879
11 June–23 August 2009. Co-organized by the Yale Center for
British Art and the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.
Mrs. Delany and Her Circle: Yale Center for British Art: 24 September
2009–3 January 2010; Sir John Soane’s Museum: 18 February–
1 May, 2010. Co-organized by the Yale Center for British Art and
Sir John Soane’s Museum. A fully illustrated book accompanying the
exhibition, edited by Mark Laird and Alicia Weisberg Roberts, will
be published by the Yale Center for British Art and Sir John Soane’s
Museum in association with Yale University Press.
related program: Wednesday, 23 September 2009, 5:30 pm
Exhibition Opening Lecture by Mark Laird, Senior Lecturer,
Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate
School of Design
Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill
Yale Center for British Art: 15 October 2009–2 January 2010
Victoria & Albert Museum: 6 March–4 July 2010
Co-organized by the Yale Center for British Art; the Lewis
Walpole Library, Yale University; and the Victoria and Albert
Museum. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated
catalogue, edited by Michael Snodin with the assistance of Cindy
Roman and published by the Yale Center for British Art, the
Lewis Walpole Library, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, in
association with Yale University Press.
related programs: Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 5:30 pm
Exhibition Opening Lecture by Michael Snodin, Senior
Research Fellow, Victoria and Albert Museum
Johann Heinrich Müntz, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, from the South
Courtesy of the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University
Wednesday, 11 November, 5:30 pm
Works of Genius: Amateur Artists at Strawberry Hill
Lecture by Cindy Roman, Curator of Prints, Drawings, and
Paintings, The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University
Wednesday, 19 November, 5:30 pm
Walpole’s Shakespeare: The First Appearance of Second Life
Lecture by Joseph Roach, Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley
Professor of Theater and English, Yale University
publications
The Center is pleased to announce the publication of a reprinted
version of The Architecture of the Yale Center for British Art by Jules
David Prown, the Paul Mellon Professor Emeritus of the History
to1976). The Architecture of the Yale Center for British Art was
originally published for the Center’s grand opening in 1977. A new
foreword by current director Amy Meyers brings the celebration of
the Center into the present day. Published by the Yale Center for
British Art in association with Yale University Press.
senior visiting scholar
november 2009: Marcia Pointon, Professor Emeritus of
History of Art at the University of Manchester and Honorary
Research Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London
visiting scholars
july–august 2009: Christopher Coltrin, PhD candidate,
University of Michigan; Amy Von Lintel, PhD candidate,
University of Southern California
august–september 2009: Meredith Hale, Independent
Scholar; Phillip Lindley, Reader in Art History and Director of the
Centre for the Study of the Country House, University of Leicester
september 2009: Jay Curley, Assistant Professor of Art
History, Department of Art, Wake Forest University
october–november 2009: Petrina Dacres, Head of Department,
Art History Department, Edna Manley College for the Visual and
Performing Arts; Amanda Herbert, PhD candidate, Department of
History, Johns Hopkins University; Andrea Korda, PhD candidate,
Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University
of California at Santa Barbara; Leon Wainwright, Lecturer in the
History of Art and Design, Department of the History of Art and
Design, Manchester Metropolitan University