Yale Center for British Art

루이스 칸 설계, 영국 외 최다 작품 소장 미술관

3월 29일 J.M.W. 터너 & 트레이시 에민 특별전 개막 

 

 

예일대학교의 영국미술관(Yale Center for British Art, YCBA)가 2년간 보수 공사 끝에 3월 29일 J.M.W. 터너(J.M.W. Turner)와 트레이시 에민(Tracey Emin) 특별전으로 오픈한다.  

 

코네티컷주 뉴헤이븐에 자리한 예일대 영국미술관은 영국 밖에서 최다의 영국 미술품을 소장한 뮤지엄이다. 회화 2천여점, 조각 200여점, 드로잉과 수채화 2만여점, 판화 3맟5천점, 등 10만여점을 소장하고 있다.

 

1977년 모더니스트 건축가 루이스 칸(Louis Kahn, )의 설계로 개관한 이 미술관은 244개의 자연 채광창이 설치되어 있다. 이번 1천650만 달러가 투여된 보수 공사에선 아크릴 채광창을 폴리카보네이트돔으로 교체했다. 입장료는 무료다. 

 

 

Yale Center for British Art, 2017. Photo: Sukie Park/NYCultureBeat

 

풍경화가 J.M.W. 터너(1775-1851)의 탄생 250주년을 기념한 특별전 'J.M.W. Turner: Romance and Reality'는 예일대 영국미술관에서 30년만의 개인전이다. 터너는 대담한 붓놀림, 화려한 색상, 눈부신 빛효과, 추상적인 감성을 결합해 새로운 풍경화 시대를 열었다. 당대 가장 급진적이며 혁신적인 화가로 인정받았다. 1984년부터 런던 테이트미술관에서 영국 작가에게 터너상을 시상해오고 있다.

 

1999 터너상 후보였던 트레이시 에민(Tracey Emin, 1963- )의 첫 북미 지역 대규모 개인전 'Tracey Emin: I Loved You Until The Morning'은 사랑, 상실, 희망, 슬픔 등을 표현한 작품이 소개된다.  트레이시 에민은 내년 2월부터 런던 테이트 모던에서 'Emin', 이탈리아 피렌체의 팔라쪼 트르로찌(Palazzo Strozzi)에서 'Tracey Emin. Sex and Solitude'를 연다. https://britishart.yale.edu 

 

 

J. M. W. Turner: Romance and Reality

 

Saturday, March 29, 2025–Sunday, July 27, 2025

Yale Center for British Art, Third-floor galleries

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, Vesuvius in Eruption, ca. 1818–20

 

The year 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851), possibly the most widely admired and influential British artist of all time. 

 

Though Turner was trained within the English topographical tradition, his practice was deeply rooted in a wider European heritage of landscape painting. Turner pushed this inheritance to its limits in pursuit of his own expressive ends, astounding contemporaries with his bold and highly original compositions. His unique approach paved the way for a new form of landscape art, one that combined virtuoso brushwork with brilliant color, dazzling light effects, and an almost abstract sensibility. As a result, Turner came to be recognized as the most radical and innovative painter of his time and has continued to be so ever since. 

 

This exhibition, the first show focused on Turner to be held at the Yale Center for British Art in more than thirty years, will showcase the museum’s rich holdings of the artist’s work. Unequaled in North America, this collection includes some of Turner’s most acclaimed oil paintings, notably his masterpiece Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed (1818) and his celebrated later painting Staffa, Fingal’s Cave (1831–32). Alongside these major works, the exhibition will also feature outstanding watercolors and prints from the YCBA’s collection, including the artist’s only complete sketchbook outside of the British Isles.

 

Turner’s works are akin to painted poems, filled with incident, anecdote, and symbolism. Conveying both the beauty and cruelty of nature and human life, they shed fascinating light on the artist’s world and reveal an aesthetic—and moral—complexity that is at once discomforting and strangely modern.

 

The exhibition is generously supported by the Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Charitable Foundation.

 

Related Programs 

Art in Context: J. M. W Turner’s Staffa, Fingal’s Cave: Painting the Energy Sublime

Caterina Franciosi, PhD candidate, the History of Art department, Yale University

Tuesday, April 15, 12:30–1 pm, Third-floor galleries

 

Exhibition Opening Lecture: Revealing J. M. W. Turner at the Yale Center for British Art

Wednesday, April 23, 5:30–6:30 pm, Lecture Hall and Livestream

 

The Sublime in Art and Music: Tim Barringer and the Brentano String Quartet

Thursday, May 1, 5:30–6:30 pm, Lecture Hall

 

Symposium: Turner Today

Friday, May 9, 10:15 am – 3:30 pm, Lecture Hall and Livestream

 

Create Community: Turner’s Vision with Watercolor

Thursdays, May 15, May 22, and June 12, 6–7:30 pm, Docent Room

 

Art in Context: Staffa, the “Indistinct”  

Jessikah Díaz, PhD candidate in English, Yale University

Tuesday, June 3, 2025, 12:30–1 pm, Third-floor galleries

 

The Art of Verse: Turner and Poetry

Thursday, June 12, 5:30 pm, Third-floor galleries 

 

Teen Thursday: Print, Press, Stamp!

Thursday, June 26, 6–8 pm, Docent Room

 

Art in Context: “Swimming with Turner”

Steve Mentz, professor of English, St. John’s University, New York City

Tuesday, July 15, 12:30–1 pm, Third-floor galleries

 

 

Tracey Emin: I Loved You Until The Morning

 

Saturday, March 29, 2025–Sunday, August 10, 2025

Yale Center for British Art, Second-floor galleries

 

Tracey Emin, You kept it coming, 2019. © HV-Studio, courtesy of the artist and Xavier Hufkens

Tracey Emin (b. 1963) is known for her dynamic and autobiographical works that express themes of love, loss, hope, and grief. With honesty and deep feeling, her art draws on her personal experiences of illness, intimacy, and sexuality to confront broader concerns about women’s bodies and health. 

 

The first major presentation of Emin’s work in a North American museum, this exhibition features paintings from 2007 to the present. Together, the works demonstrate the artist’s unflinching commitment to challenging conceptions of female experience.

 

Related Programs

Fostering a Creative Career: A Conversation with Harry Weller and Kalia Brooks

Monday, March 24, 4–5 pm, Lecture Hall and Livestream

 

Artist Talk: Tracey Emin

Thursday, April 3, 12–1 pm, Lecture Hall and Livestream

 

Tracey Emin: Video Works

Monday, April 7, 5:30–7 pm

 

Create Community: Drawing as Seeing in Tracey Emin

Thursdays, April 10, April 24, and May 8, 6–7:30 pm, Docent Room 

 

Teen-to-Teen Conversations: Tracey Emin’s Autobiographical Art

Thursdays, April 17, April 24, May 1, and May 8, 4–5:30 pm 

 

Art in Context: The Body is Not a Fact — Memory and the Construction of the Self 

Luciana McClure Lewis, interdisciplinary Afro-Brazilian public feminist scholar, organizer, and practicing artist

Tuesday, August 5, 12:30–1 pm, Second-floor galleries

 

 

In a New Light: Five Centuries of British Art

Ongoing

Fourth-floor galleries

 

Yale Center for British Art, 2017. Photo: Sukie Park/NYCultureBeat

 

This installation sheds light on the surprising and complicated history of British art, bringing into focus the people and cultures that produced these artworks. From the sixteenth century to the present, Britain has attracted artists from all over the world, with their outputs as diverse as their origins. Many artists traveled or migrated to India, the Caribbean, and beyond. Individual and family portraits uncover the systems of class, gender, and race that undergirded societies around the globe and privileged the wealthy and influential. Other works depict landscapes, seascapes, manor houses, and cathedrals, often offering a record of the industrialization of an agrarian world. Allegorical, historical, and religious subjects further enrich our understanding of the expansive culture of a changing nation.

 

Many highlights from the Paul Mellon Collection including Hadleigh Castle, The Mouth of the Thames—Morning after a Stormy Night by John Constable, Lion and Lioness by George Stubbs, and The Island of Barbados, attributed to Isaac Sailmaker, find new resonance with several recent acquisitions—such as Emma Soyer’s Young Mariner and Dog, Thomas Beach’s Four Servants of Ston Easton Estate, and Albert Huie’s Benjamin Dorrell. This display reflects not only the individual creators of these objects but also the societies that shaped them.  

https://britishart.yale.edu