 | John Glover's oil painting "View from Shanklin, Isle of Wight" (c. 1827) is on view at the Yale Center for British Art as part of its exhibition "Behold, the Sea Itself," featuring marine art from the museum's collections. |
A new exhibition opening at the Yale Center for British Art on June 14 features a summer theme: marine art.
"Behold, the Sea Itself" will showcase the center's collections of paintings, drawings, prints and rare books by British artists and poets spanning the late 17th through the early 20th centuries that explore the themes of travel, trade and exploration, naval power, and storms and shipwrecks. It continues through Sept. 7.
The title of the exhibition is taken from lines by the American poet Walt Whitman in his poem "Song of the Exposition." The poem was set to music by British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams in his 1910 "Sea Symphony."
Displayed alongside images of ships and the sea are excerpts from poems by famous writers ranging from Byron to Tennyson, as well as works that were popular in their own day but are largely forgotten today, such as William Falconer's "The Shipwreck."
The exhibition marks the first public display of an important work in the center's Department of Prints and Drawings: J.M.W. Turner's "Channel Sketchbook." It is one of the very few sketchbooks by the artist that exists outside the Turner Bequest in Tate, Britain. Created by Turner in the mid-1840s, it is full of watercolor studies of light and weather effects on the English Channel. Over the course of the exhibition, the sketchbook will be opened to a new page every other week.
Other highlights of "Behold, the Sea Itself" include works by the 17th-century master of maritime themes Willem van de Velde the Elder, 18th-century sea painters Charles Brookings and Robert Clevely, Romantic artists John Constable and Richard Bonington, and the early modernist C.R.W. Nevinson.
"Behold, the Sea Itself" is curated by Zoë Kahr, a graduate student at the Yale School of Management and in art history at University College, London, under the guidance of Scott Wilcox, curator of prints and drawings at the Yale Center for British Art. The exhibition is organized in conjunction with Safe Haven: The Paper Boat Project as part of Arts & Ideas New Haven. (See related story).
Kahr will take visitors on an opening tour of the exhibition at 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 14. "Seascapes in Music," an introduction to musical depictions of the sea by British composers, will be offered by Wilcox on Wednesday, June 18, at 12:30 p.m. Kahr will present an Art in Context talk on "The Spirit of Discovery by Sea: Exploration and Colonization in the Late 18th Century" on Tuesday, June 24, at 12:30 p.m. In addition to these events, guided tours of the exhibition will take place Thursdays and Saturdays on the following dates: June 19, 21 and 28 at noon; June 12 at noon; July 24 at 11 a.m.; and Aug. 2 at noon.
The Yale Center for British Art, 1180 Chapel St., is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday; and noon-5 p.m. Sunday. It is closed Mondays and will be closed on July 4. During the Arts & Ideas New Haven festival, the center will be open the following Mondays: June 16 and June 23. Admission is free. For further information, call (203) 432-2800 or visit the center's website at www.yale.edu/ycba.
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