Yale University Art Gallery
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| Established | 1832 |
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| Location | 1111 Chapel St., New Haven, Connecticut |
| Coordinates | 41°18′30″N 72°55′52″W / 41.308459°N 72.930985°WCoordinates: 41°18′30″N 72°55′52″W / 41.308459°N 72.930985°W |
| Type | Art Museum |
| Director | Jock Reynolds (2016) |
| Website | artgallery |
The Yale University Art Gallery houses a significant and encyclopedic collection of art in several buildings on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Although it embraces all cultures and periods, the gallery emphasizes early Italian painting, African sculpture, and modern art.
The Yale University Art Gallery is the oldest university art museum in the western hemisphere. The gallery was founded in 1832, when patriot-artist, John Trumbull, donated more than 100 paintings of the American Revolution to Yale College and designed the original Picture Gallery. This building, on the university's Old Campus, was razed in 1901.
The gallery's main building was built in 1953, and was among the first designed by Louis Kahn, who taught architecture at Yale. A complete renovation, which returned many spaces to Kahn's original vision, was completed in December 2006, by Polshek Partnership Architects. The older Tuscan romanesque portion was built in 1928, and was designed by Egerton Swartwout. The Gallery reopened on December 12, 2012, after a 14-year renovation and expansion project at a cost of $135 million. The expanded space totals 69,975 sq ft (6,500.9 m2).
The museum is a member of the North American Reciprocal Museums program.
On the second floor was a very valuable collection of paintings by John Trumbull, mainly of historical events. Among them were his well-known paintings of the "Battle of Bunker Hill," "Death of Montgomery before Quebec," "Surrender of Lord Cornwallis," "Declaration of Independence," etc. Trumbull gave the paintings to Yale in consideration of an annuity of $1,000 and subject to the condition that he and his wife should be forever buried beneath the pictures.
Miniature of George Washington by Robert Field (1800)
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