A selection of recent and promised gifts highlights outstanding works, both figurative and abstract, from British pop in the 1960s to the current moment. One segment is devoted to contemporary art, organized in large part by the donors whose gifts have so enriched the Center’s collection. Beyond this opening space, the display divides. Walker’s drawing is flanked by photographic works by Tracey Moffatt (b. This exhibition illuminates the role donors have played in enhancing the Center’s collections established by Paul Mellon (Yale College, Class of 1929), one of the greatest art collectors and philanthropists of the twentieth century.įrom the broad range of gifts, promised gifts, and purchases of recent years, the Center has chosen to focus in this display on two areas in which the collections have developed significantly: art from roughly 1970 to the present day and photography from its origins to its most recent manifestations. The exhibition opens with Barbara Walker’s The Big Secret II, a large-scale drawing purchased through the Friends of British Art Fund from the artist’s Shock and Aweseries (2015), which salutes black servicemen and women who have served in Britain’s Armed Forces.
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