Yale University Art Gallery
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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 possesses especially renowned collections of early Italian painting, African sculpture, and modern art. Its holdings of American decorative and fine arts are amongst the best in existence.
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[edit] History
The Yale University Art Gallery is the oldest college art museum in the United States. The gallery was founded in 1832, when patriot-artist John Trumbull donated to Yale College more than 100 paintings of the American Revolution.
The gallery's main building [2] was among the very first designed by Louis Kahn, who taught architecture at Yale, and was built in 1953. A complete renovation, which returned many spaces to the way Kahn originally envisioned them, was completed in 2006.
[edit] Collection
![The Night Café, Vincent van Gogh, 1888, Yale Art Gallery[1]](../../../upload/thumb/5/59/NightCafe.jpg/180px-NightCafe.jpg)
The Gallery’s encyclopedic collections number more than 100,000 objects ranging in date from ancient times to the present day. The permanent collection includes:
- African Art
- American Decorative Arts
- American Paintings and Sculpture
- Ancient Art
- Art of the Ancient Americas
- Asian Art
- Coins and Medals
- Early European Art
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Provenance
In 2005 the gallery announced that it had acquired 1,465 gelatin silver prints by the influential American landscape photographer Robert Adams.
[edit] Mission
The mission of the gallery is to encourage appreciation and understanding of art and its role in society through direct engagement with original works of art. The Gallery stimulates active learning about art and the creative process through research, teaching, and dialogue among communities of Yale students, faculty, artists, scholars, alumni, and the wider public. The Gallery organizes exhibitions and educational programs to offer enjoyment and encourage inquiry, while building and maintaining its collections in trust for future generations.
