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A ramble through the English countryside at the Yale Center for British Art

There’s nothing quite like a walk through the English countryside, but the next best thing might be a stroll through a new exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) that invites visitors to experience the British landscape through the eyes of artists from the 16th century to the present. “’Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower’: Artists’ Books and the Natural World,” on view May 15–Aug. 10, examines the intersection between artistic and scientific interests in the natural world.
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'Artists’ Books and the Natural World' exhibit

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    Julie Cockburn, "Beetles Book," 2002, altered book, Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
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    Unknown artist, "Yellow-eyed Babbler" perched on Chinese hat plant, India, ca. 1770, watercolor, heightened with gouache, with pen and ink over graphite, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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    Unknown maker, "Basket," ca. 1820, silk thread, cut paper, and watercolor, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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    Workshop of Tulsi Das Nimbark, "Hoopoe on a Branch, Jaipur, India" (detail), 2009, gouache on printed leaf of text, Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Holly Shaffer
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    Yale Center for British Art: "Blackbere" from "Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary" (detail), ca. 1500, Paul Mellon Collection; Rosaleen Wain, "Blackberry" (detail), from "A Printmaker’s Flora: an Anthology of the Names of British Wild Flowers," (Devon: Dartington Hall, Dartington Printmakers, 1996), Friends of British Art Fund
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    John Dilnot, "Weeds and Pests" (detail), 2009, screenprint, Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
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    Mandy Bonnell, "Bethany Seeds," (London: EMH Arts, 2013), wood engraving, Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
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    James Bolton, one of twenty drawings depicting specimens from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne, ca. 1768, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
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    Sarah Morpeth, "Crow Landscape," 2008, cut paper, wire, and acrylic ink, Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
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    Four Victorian microscope slides, (zoophytes, shells, and seaweed from Yarmouth), ca. 1860, paper, glass, pen and ink, with natural specimens, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
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    Unknown artist, "Camberwell Beauty" from "Album of drawings of English moths, butterflies, flowers, and mollusks," 1805–1822, pen and ink and watercolor, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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    Yale Center for British Art: Unknown collector, "The Butter Cup," natural specimens with pen and ink mounted on paper, from "Album of Pressed Wild Flowers," 1882-1899, Paul Mellon Fund; Jane Hyslop, "Herbarium Series: Buttercup," 2009, colored etching, cut out and mounted on sheet, Friends of British Art Fund
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    John Dilnot, "Bishops Wood," 2013, natural specimens, found objects, and cut paper, in glass-topped wooden box, Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
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    Tracey Bush, "British Butterflies: Museum Box, no. 1," 2004, cut paper, mounted with specimen pins, in glass-topped cardboard box, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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    Simon Basyll, "Survey of Hertford Castle," 1608, pen and ink with watercolor and gouache on parchment, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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    Eileen Hogan, "Ian Hamilton Finlay," 2012, oil paint and charcoal on paper, mounted on card, Collection of the artist
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    Ken Campbell, "Father’s Garden," (London, 1989), letterpress, Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

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