Acquisitions: The First Decade‚ By Duncan Robinson, Malcolm Cormack, Patrick Noon, and Joan M. Friedman‚ Published by The Burlington Magazine‚ 1986. This catalogue commemorates the growth of the collection in the decade after it opened. It includes a checklist of the 180 items selected for the exhibition, as well as an introduction by the director and brief accounts by the curators of Paintings, Print and Drawings, and Rare Books.. 40 pages, 14 color and 26 b/w illustrations‚ ISBN 0-930606-54-X.   America's Eye: Irish Paintings from the Collection of Brian P. Burns‚ Edited by Adele M. Dalsimer and Vera Kreilkamp‚ Yale Center for British Art/Boston College Museum of Art‚ 1996. 144 pages, 49 color plates‚ ISBN 9640153-4-X.   The Architecture of the Yale Center for British Art‚ By Jules David Prown‚ Yale Center for British Art‚ 1985. An illustrated account of the last commission of the acclaimed 20th-century architect, Louis I. Kahn, written by the founding director. 68 pages, 47 photographs, architectural diagrams, and drawings‚ ISBN 0-930606-40-X.   A Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art‚ By Malcolm Cormack‚ Yale Center for British Art‚ 1985. This catalogue provides basic information about each painting and reveals the size and scope of the Center's collection. It is arranged alphabetically by artist, is fully illustrated, and includes the works of nearly 400 artists. 271 pages, 1,242 b/w illustrations‚ ISBN 0-930606-48-5C.   Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830‚ Edited by John Styles and Amanda Vickery‚ Yale Center for British Art and Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in association with Yale University Press‚ 2006. 368 pages‚ IBSN 978-0-300-11659-5. Selected Paintings, Drawings, & Books: Yale Center for British Art‚ Foreword by Paul Mellon, Preface by Edmund P. Pillsbury, Notes by Malcolm Cormack, Joan Friedman, and Andrew Wilton‚ Yale Center for British Art‚ 1977. An annotated, fully illustrated selection of the Center's most important works of art supplemented by Mr. Mellon's remarks about the formation of the collection. 100 pages, 17 color and 83 b/w illustrations.   Toil and Plenty: Images of the Agricultural Landscape in England, 1780–1890‚ By Christiana Payne‚ Yale Universtiy Press in association with the Yale Center for British Art and as part of the Yale Agrarian Studies Series‚ 1993. This book discusses the ideological uses of agricultural imagery, exploring how and why the myth of rural contentment was perpetuated in the face of actual poverty, distress, and class conflict. 219 pages, 40 color and 148 b/w illustrations‚ ISBN 0-300-05774-1*.   Yale Center for British Art: A Tribute to the Genius of Louis I. Kahn‚ Text by Duncan Robinson, photographs by David Finn‚ Yale University Press and Yale Center for British Art‚ 1997. The Yale Center for British Art, formed in 1966 around Paul Mellon's unparalleled collection of British art, became a fact in concrete, steel, and glass in 1977 with the inauguration of Kahn's building, the last of his career. Twenty years later, Duncan Robinson, director from 1977 to 1995, looks back on the building with great personal affection and appreciation of the architect's gift for housing not only an exquisite collection but the people who work in and around the building, visit its galleries, and study its collections. 80 pages, 30 color and 40 b/w illustrations‚ ISBN 0-930606-82-5 .