- Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) is an art museum founded in 1832.
- It is located on the campus of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Collections
- The University Museum holds a massive 200,000 works of art from all continents and all periods of history, including Finds from Dura Europos in Syria.
- The original gallery opened with a collection of one hundred paintings of the American Revolution donated by the Patriot artist John Trumbull.
- The most sizeable collections consist of early Italian Renaissance paintings, African sculpture and Modern art.
Description
- The museum consists of several buildings that are all interconnected.
- Street Hall, opened in 1866, was designed like a thirteenth century Venetian Palace.
- Old Yale Art Gallery, opened in 1928, incorporates Romanesque, Gothic and Classical features.
- The Main Building, opened in 1953, was designed by Louis Kahn in a Modernist style.
Yale University Art Gallery