Yale University, May 27, 2025  Yale Center for British Art

J. M. W. Turner

John Constable

Tracey Emin, A rose, 2007,

Acrylic on canvas

George Stubbs

Beinecke Library, Repository of Delmore Schwartz archives... The opening of James Atlas's book, 'A Shadow in the Garden:  A Biographer's Tale' takes place in the Beinecke.  Atlas, a young person starting out, got a commission to write Delmore's biography.  He opens the boxes and discovers a few things.  Here is an excerpt from the book with an audio reading of the passage: 

End of Part One in a Series of Five

Part Two

Sterling Library

Manet, Yale Art Gallery

June Leaf, Reclining Nude, 1996-2007

Martin Wong, La Vida (detail), 1988

Part Three

Part Four coming October 2027