FAS Faculty Connections: A Guided Tour of the Yale Center for British Art

Join new FAS faculty colleagues for a guided tour of the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA), hosted by Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor in the History of Art. 

  • Date: Thursday, September 11
  • Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM, following by a light reception at the YCBA
  • Location: Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St., New Haven, CT
  • Host: Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art at Yale University, where he was Chair of the Department of the History of Art from 2015 to 2021 and in Spring 2025. He specializes in British art and art of the British Empire. Books include Reading the Pre-Raphaelites (1999) and Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain (2005). He co-edited Frederic Leighton (1998); Colonialism and the Object (1998); Art and the British Empire (2007); Victorian Jamaica (2018) and On the Viewing Platform (2020). He was co-curator of American Sublime (Tate, 2002); Art and Emancipation in Jamaica (Yale, 2007); Before and After Modernism (2010); Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde (Tate, Washington DC: National Gallery of Art; Moscow: Pushkin Museum, 2012); Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills (2015); Thomas Cole’s Journey (Metropolitan Museum of Art New York and National Gallery, London, 2018) Picturesque and Sublime (Catskill, 2018) and Radical Victorians (2019-22).  His exhibition Human Drama: the Figure in British Art will open at Liverpool in 2026. He gave the Paul Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery, London, in 2019, on Global Landscape. He is working on a three-volume study, Broken Pastoral: Art and Music in Britain, Gothic Revival to Punk Rock.
  • Open to FAS faculty. Partners, spouses, children, and families are welcome! 

The tour schedule:

  • 5:00 PM: Participants meet in the YCBA lobby and check bags in lockers.
  • 5:05 PM: Introductions
  • 5:10-40 PM: Tour of fourth floor paintings and sculpture
  • 5:45-6:00 PM: William Blake exhibition highlights
  • 6:00 PM: Drinks in Founder’s Room, 4th floor, hosted by YCBA.  

Sign up below by September 9. Please email sal2.fas@yale.edu with questions.