#YaleUniversityArtGallery
LightNews LightNews
artscopemagazine.bsky.social
The physicality of Hans Hofmann’s work — currently on view at #YaleUniversityArtGallery #NewHavenCT, is among its most poignant qualities. “Gestures remain visible, pigments feel sculpted onto the canvas and each surface bears the record of sustained engagement.” artscopemagazine.com/2025/12/hofm...
HOFMANN’S RISK AND COURAGE
When you hear the name Hans Hofmann, you might first think of a teacher — an artist best known for shaping generations of minds. Yet Hofmann’s own work resists easy categorization, and deliberately so...
artscopemagazine.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:10 PM
mdstamper.bsky.social
“Elizabeth Huddell Cook as The Country Girl” by Thomas Sully (American) - Oil on canvas / 1839 - Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Connecticut) #WomenInArt #ThomasSully #Sully #YaleUniversityArtGallery #AmericanArt #19thCenturyArt #art #artText #artwork #PortraitofaGirl #AmericanArtist #Yale
Painted in Philadelphia in 1839, the work’s full title of “Elizabeth Huddell Cook (later Elizabeth Huddell Cook Bache, 1815–1898) as The Country Girl” signals that this is both likeness and role. American artist Thomas Sully stages an upper-class sitter inside a pastoral “type,” using bonnet, basket, and simple wrap as shorthand for innocence, health, and rural virtue, while the pristine fabrics and satin ribbons quietly reveal this as performance rather than documentary labor. Her double identity can be a kind of social self-fashioning via a portrait that offers a socially admired version of womanhood that is approachable, “natural,” and serene without surrendering dignity or presence. Her direct, steady look complicates the costume’s sweetness because she isn’t merely displayed, but Elizabeth appears aware of being seen. In Sully’s hands, the pastoral becomes a language for aspiration and storytelling, where character and biography overlap … and where a woman’s public image is crafted with both softness and control. In her early 20s, Elizabeth is depicted as a young woman with light skin and dark, glossy hair facing forward in a three-quarter pose, her head gently tilted as she meets our gaze with calm, composed warmth. Soft blush gathers in her cheeks and her lips are lightly tinted while her features are smoothly modeled with delicate shadow. A broad, pale-pink bonnet frames her face as long satin ribbons trail down toward her shoulder. Over her upper body she wears a creamy white capelet that opens at the front to reveal a darker brown dress beneath. Her left arm carries a woven straw basket held close against her torso. Behind her, a wide sky fades from warm peach near the horizon into cool blue, with a suggestion of distant water or low hills for an airy backdrop that makes her figure feel luminous and gently idealized.
January 14, 2026 at 2:49 AM
“Castle on the Seashore.” Jan Brueghel the Elder (Flemish, 1568–1625), school of. Pen and brown ink and brush and brown and blue ink and blue wash, 17th century. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

#janbruegheltheelder
#janbrueghel
#brueghel
#yaleuniversityartgallery
@yaleartgallery
January 19, 2025 at 5:01 AM
“Coney Island.” Frank Stella (American; 1936–2024). Oil on canvas, 1958. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. © Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

#coneyisland
#frankstella
#stella
#yaleuniversityartgallery
@yaleartgallery
October 12, 2024 at 10:50 AM
mdstamper.bsky.social
Jeanne Cartier by Francis Luis Mora (American, born Uruguay) - Oil on canvas / 1915 - Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Connecticut) #womeninart #painting #FrancisLuisMora #art #fluismora #artwork #YaleUniversityArtGallery #Yale #cartier #womensart #portrait #fineart #portraitofawoman #alttext
Jeanne Cartier was a noted dancer with New York's Century Opera Company. She is shown her in full costume in one of three life-size portrait oil on canvas paintings completed by Francis Luis Mora's (aka F. Luis Mora) in 1915. She stands against a wall in a dancers pose with heeled cream shoes, dark purple tights, bright orange skirt, brown patterned sheer apron, and beige bodice with thin straps over her bare shoulders. Both arms are extend down and away from the body against a floral wall background. On her right arm is a seductive black lace wrist sleeve. A single drop ruby necklace and gold earrings add to the allure while a black flat bowl hat atop her short black hair completes the look. Francis Luis Mora was born in Montevideo, Uruguayan, but became famous as an American figural painter. Mora worked in watercolor, oils, tempera, pen and ink, graphite creating paintings and drawings depicting American life in the early 20th century; Spanish life and society; historical and allegorical subjects. He also was a popular art instructor.
January 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
nenazhivina.com
Visited #YaleUniversityArtGallery
Great collection 🤗

#Yale #NewHaven #art #museum
April 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“Woman on Beach.” Thomas Pollock Anshutz (American; 1851-1912). Watercolor on paper, n.d. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

#thomaspollockanshutz
#anshutz
#thomasanshutz
#yaleuniversityartgallery
@yaleartgallery
July 19, 2024 at 10:53 AM
“The Beach at Villerville.” Jacques-Henri Lartigue (French; 1894–1986). Gelatin silver print, 1906. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

#jacqueshenrilartigue
#lartigue
#villerville
#yaleuniversityartgallery
@yaleartgallery
October 31, 2024 at 3:04 AM
“Beach at Apia, Samoa.” Louis Michel Eilshemius (American; 1864–1941). Oil on canvas, 1905. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

#louismicheleilshemius
#eilshemius
#samoa
#apia
#yaleuniversityartgallery
@yaleartgallery
September 30, 2024 at 8:55 AM
“Storm, Bahamas.” Winslow Homer (American; 1836–1910). Transparent watercolor on wove paper, 1885. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

#WinslowHomer
#Bahamas
#homer
#yaleuniversityartgallery
@yaleartgallery
January 8, 2026 at 1:51 PM
“Beach, East Hampton.” S. G. McCutcheon (American; ca. 1844–1884). Watercolor, 1878. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

#easthampton
#yaleuniversityartgallery
#sgmccutcheon
@yaleartgallery
May 30, 2024 at 3:04 AM
“Charter.” Ellsworth Kelly (American; 1923–2015). Oil on canvas, ca. 1960. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

#ellsworthkelly
#yaleuniversityartgallery
@yaleartgallery
December 21, 2024 at 11:56 PM
“The Salute, Venice.” John Singer Sargent (American; 1856–1925). Watercolor, with graphite underdrawing, ca. 1904–7. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

#johnsingersargent
#sargent
#salute
#venice
#yaleuniversityartgallery
@yaleartgallery.bsky.social
November 19, 2024 at 4:28 AM
“Beach Scene (or Sunday on the Beach).” Edward Potthast (American; 1857–1927). Oil on board, ca. 1915. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

#edwardpotthast
#potthast
#yaleuniversityartgallery
@yaleartgallery
August 3, 2024 at 1:50 AM
“Beach Scene with Man Resting in Shadow of Boat.” Edwin Austin Abbey (American; 1852–1911). Watercolor on grey-blue laid paper, mounted down, n.d. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

#EdwinAustinAbbey
#eaabbey
#YaleUniversityArtGallery
@yaleartgallery
August 26, 2024 at 9:30 AM
“Storm, Bahamas.” Winslow Homer (American; 1836–1910). Transparent watercolor on wove paper, 1885. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

#winslowhomer
#yaleuniversityartgallery
@yaleartgallery
November 26, 2024 at 9:58 PM
“Beach.” Arthur Garfield Dove (American; 1880–1946). Watercolor, 1940. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

#arthurgarfielddove
#yaleuniversityartgallery
@yaleartgallery
July 16, 2024 at 8:36 AM
“Lady at the Piano.” John Singer Sargent (American; 1856–1925). Black chalk, undated. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

#johnsingersargent
#sargent
#yaleuniversityartgallery

@yaleartgallery
July 10, 2024 at 12:14 AM
“Three Women on the Beach, Provincetown.” Charles Demuth (American; 1883–1935). Watercolor and graphite, ca. 1934. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

#charlesdemuth
#yaleuniversityartgallery
@yaleartgallery
August 18, 2024 at 10:50 AM
“Surf, Prout’s Neck.” Winslow Homer (American; 1836–1910). Watercolor, 1883. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

#winslowhomer
#homer
#yaleuniversityartgallery
#yaleartgallery
#proutsneck
@yaleartgallery
November 28, 2024 at 3:37 PM
“The Beach at Trouville.” Eugène Boudin (French; 1824–1898). Oil on panel, 1871. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

#Trouville
#eugeneboudin
#EugèneBoudin
#Boudin
#yaleuniversityartgallery
@yaleartgallery
August 27, 2024 at 9:33 AM
“Shore Scenes with Trees and Cliff.” Dodge MacKnight (American; 1860–1950). Transparent watercolor, 19th century. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

#dodgemacknight
#yaleuniversityartgallery
@yaleartgallery
June 24, 2024 at 3:29 AM
“Three Women on the Beach, Provincetown.” Charles Demuth (American; 1883–1935). Watercolor and graphite, ca. 1934. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

#charlesdemuth
#demuth
#yaleuniversityartgallery
@yaleartgallery
August 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM