Art in Focus : The British Castle - A Symbol in Stone (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-04-07 - 2017-08-06)Art in Focus : Wales (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-04-04 - 2014-08-10)Nobleness and Grandeur - Forging Historical Landscape in Britain, 1760 - 1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-01-27 - 2005-04-24)Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
Art, Lux, et Veritas 2012, Personal Responses to Collections at Yale , Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2012, pp. 28-31, V 2414:2Thomas Balston, John Martin, 1799-1854, his life and works., G. Duckworth, London, 1947, pp. 36, 43, 45, 66, NJ18 M39 B35 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 156-157, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)Ronald Hutton, Blood and mistletoe, the history of the Druids in Britain , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2009, fig. 21, BL910 .H88X 2009 (LSF)Barbara C. Morden, John Martin : Apocalypse Now!, , Northumbria University Press, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2010, p. 27, NJ18 M39 +M67 2010 Oversize (YCBA)Martin Myrone, John Martin, apocalypse , Tate Publishing, London, 2011, p. 76, NJ18.M39 A12 2011 Oversize (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 97, no. 152, pl. 129, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, pp. 51-2 (v.1), no. 188, pl. 36, ND466 R68 1964/65 (YCBA)The British Castle : A Symbol in Stone, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2017, pp. 26-27, cat. 19, V2722 (YCBA)Yale Center for British Art, Selected paintings, drawings & books, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1977, p. 44, N590.2 A82 (YCBA)Yale Center for British Art, Wales, New Haven, 2014, p. 21, V2519 (YCBA)Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 36 (v.1), no. 131, pl. 36, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Based on a dramatic poem by Thomas Gray, The Bard was painted by John Martin around 1817, at the height of the romantic period. Amid a powerful landscape with ominous clouds, a raging river, and gnarly walnut trees, the castle’s stony architecture parallels the peaks around it, making this emblem of English power a seemingly indestructible part of the landscape. Awestruck by the scene, the viewer must take care to notice the figure of the last remaining Bard, defiant after Edward I ordered all the bards to be put to death when he conquered Wales. Gallery label for Art in Focus: The British Castle - A Symbol in Stone (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-04-07 - 2017-08-06)