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Yale University Art Gallery

681 works

Pencil and pale watercolor sketch of a seated nude figure resting, with loose spatters and a signature below.

Le Repos

Pen and ink sketch of gabled rooftops, chimneys, shuttered windows and a leafy tree on paper.

Sketch of an exterior: buildings and tree

Edwin Austin Abbey

Sketch of a dim foundry interior with a large iron beam, dark furnace opening, and machine parts scattered on the floor.

West Point Foundry, Cold Spring, New York

John Ferguson Weir, 1864

Watercolor drawing of a bearded man in a fire helmet pointing and holding a brass trumpet, standing on a grey platform.

The Head Fireman

Nicolino Calyo, 1840

Pencil sketch of seated figures in an interior, a couple in the foreground with onlookers gathered around them.

Sketch of a couple playing a game, surrounded by onlookers, in an interior (?) - unidentified illustration

Edwin Austin Abbey

Red chalk drawing of a kneeling man seen from behind, with curly hair, bare back and draped cloth around his legs.

Kneeling Man

Domenico Beccafumi, 1544

Watercolor drawing of a standing woman in a blue bodice and pink striped skirt holding a green parasol and white gloves.

The Negro Belle

Nicolino Calyo, 1840

Watercolor of a plumed sentry with a musket on a wall, a second figure at right, cannon and city skyline behind.

Two sentries atop a fortress wall

Edwin Austin Abbey

Grey wash drawing of Roman ruins with a brick tower, ruined arches, and a figure-filled gateway below.

Roman Ruins: Tower and Gate

Jan Asselijn, 1640

Watercolor of the cream-hulled warship U.S. Battle-Ship Chicago with orange funnels and American flag on choppy seas.

U.S. Battle-Ship Chicago

Pen and ink sketch of a child holding a banner beside a drummer, with New Year greeting text by Edwin Austin Abbey.

Sketch for a greeting card: All Good WIshes for the New Year from M.G. and E.A. Abbey

Edwin Austin Abbey

Abstract pastel drawing of faceted magenta, orange and blue geometric forms with radiating lines and a star-like shape.

Believed (Geglaubt)

Oskar Fischer, 1918

Graphite drawing on gray paper of a woman with lowered eyes and a white collar, with sketched hands below.

Untitled [frontal head and sketched in bust and hands of girl]

Emma H. Bacon, 1875

Pen sketch of a reclining woman and a seated cloaked figure beneath a pointed arch, with loose drapery studies below.

Unidentified illustration

Edwin Austin Abbey

Abstract geometric composition of overlapping pastel shapes in pink, green, blue and red, signed G. Valmier, 1922.

Composition (No. 7888)

Georges Valmier, 1922

Pen and ink architectural elevation of a large house with portico and dome, with a plan below showing a spiral staircase.

Elevation and plan for interior of large house

John Trumbull, 1790

Pencil sketch of a stooped old man in a long robe holding a bowl while several cats gather around his feet.

Old Man feeding his cats

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pencil and color drawing of geometric planes and diagonal lines in perspective, with an ochre panel and black bars on beige p

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El Lissitzky, 1922

Pencil study of two standing men, one in a fedora and one in a sailor cap, one turned toward the viewer's left.

Man With Sailor (study for watercolor titled On That Street, 1932)

Charles Demuth, 1932

Charcoal and white chalk study of an extended hand with fingers spread, drawn on tan paper.

Sketch of a hand (recto); Composition studies for a play (?) (verso)

Edwin Austin Abbey

Ink and wash drawing of a bearded elderly man in glasses at a draped table, with a sleeping dog and curtains in a stone inter

Study for "The Man with Glasses Speaks"

Adriaen van de Venne, 1654

Watercolor of three dandies in top hats beside a wall of theater playbills, with a pig and a water spout on a city street.

The Soap-Locks or Bowery Boys

Nicolino Calyo, 1840

Pencil sketch on cream paper of a standing draped figure with bowed head and raised hand, study for a ceiling painting.

Study for figure of 10 pm in "The Hours" ceiling at the state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Edwin Austin Abbey

Sepia wash and pencil drawing of a standing female nude in side view, signed A. Rodin in the lower right.

Nude Standing, Side View

Pen and brown wash drawing of a tiered funeral catafalque with allegorical figures, putti, and a central relief panel.

Design for a Catafalque for Cosimo I de' Medici

Jacopo Zucchi, 1574

Pencil sketch of a man in a top hat on horseback, with a partial study of a horse's hindquarters to the right.

Man on horseback

Edwin Austin Abbey

Brown wash drawing of a shepherd resting under a tree with sheep, a goat, wooded hills and boats on water.

Pastoral Landscape

called Claude Lorrain Claude Gellée, 1639

Abstract watercolor of red, black, and ochre organic shapes and wavy lines on a pale background, signed David Kakabadzé 1921.

Abstraction Based on Flower Forms, IV

David Kakabadzé, 1921

Watercolor and ink sketch of women in bonnets and a standing man seated in a room with chairs.

Sketch of women in an interior - unidentified illustration

Edwin Austin Abbey

Ink sketch on tan paper of a cyclist's fragmented forms in motion, with sweeping radiating lines.

Study II for Dynamism of a Cyclist

Umberto Boccioni, 1913