national portrait gallery Archive
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![“The art or work-pleasure, as one ought to call it…sprung up almost spontaneously, it seems, from a kind of instinct amongst people, no longer driven desperately to painful and terrible […]](https://i2.wp.com/artbooks.yupnet.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2014/12/William-Morris-Anarchy-and-Beauty--e1424117331533.jpg?resize=184%2C128 "William Morris: Anarchy and Beauty")
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William Morris: Anarchy and Beauty
Posted on December 9, 2014“The art or work-pleasure, as one ought to call it…sprung up almost spontaneously, it seems, from a kind of instinct amongst people, no longer driven desperately to painful and terrible […] -
![From our London colleagues— Yale’s series of books cataloguing the complete paintings of John Singer Sargent nears completion with the release of the penultimate volume. The project has been a magnificent endeavor […]](https://i1.wp.com/artbooks.yupnet.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2014/09/9780300177367_crop.jpg?resize=184%2C128 "John Singer Sargent: The Complete Paintings")
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John Singer Sargent: The Complete Paintings
Posted on September 26, 2014From our London colleagues— Yale’s series of books cataloguing the complete paintings of John Singer Sargent nears completion with the release of the penultimate volume. The project has been a magnificent endeavor […] -
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In Commemoration of Lucian Freud
Posted on July 20, 2012Follow @yaleARTbooks Painter Lucian Freud, grandson of Sigmund Freud, died on this day one year ago, and it is on this anniversary that we reflect on the English artist’s extraordinary […] -
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Lucian Freud: 70 Years of Portraiture
Posted on February 17, 2012The people portrayed in Lucian Freud’s portraits are not passive, flawless models, stuck in the imagined world of a framed canvas. They have lived—endured—with evidence of years past in their […]