Yale University Art Gallery

The Yale University Art Gallery is a museum in New Haven, USA. It belongs to Yale University and is the oldest art museum of the University of the Western Hemisphere.

History

Foundation

The Yale University Art Gallery was founded in 1832, which is due to crucial John Trumbull. About Here there are different self-reported by the Yale University:

  • On the one hand it is stated that Trumbull had signed a contract on 19 December 1831 which Yale until his death on suitable 28 of his paintings and 60 of his miniature portraits for an annual sum to be paid from U.S. $ 1,000. At this time he was 75 years old.
  • On the other hand, to Trumbull more than 100 of his paintings have donated to the Yale College.

Trumbull himself designed the gallery at Yale, which was opened on 25 October 1832.

Removals

Yale's collection quickly became too large for the Trumbull Gallery, which is why she moved into the Hall Street in 1867. The Trumbull Gallery was then used as the official residence of the President and the Treasurer of the University, until it was demolished in 1901.

In the fall of 1926, the construction of a new building, which should provide the held in different places of the campus until then art collections of the Yale University merge and space for further growth began. Designed by Egerton Swartwout Gallery of Fine Arts ( " Gallery of Fine Arts " ) was opened on 27 September 1928. The Swartwout building houses even today parts of the collection.

Today's main building

The present main building of the Yale University Art Gallery is regarded as the first masterpiece of Louis I. Kahn. At its opening in November 1953, the Yale University Art Gallery and Design Center included far-reaching, open spaces for art exhibition and studio space for art and architecture students.

Architecture

The main building was built of stone, concrete, glass and steel. It has a windowless wall on its main facade. The so-called " boat - building " was a radical departure from the neo-Gothic tradition, which embody a large part of the campus and the adjacent Swartwout building. It received both for its beauty, the geometry and the light, and for the praise of engineering.

Stairs room in boat - building

Triangular ceiling in boat - building

The Swatroom

Works

The museum has more than 185,000 works. These are divided into ten areas:

  • African Art
  • American Decorative Arts
  • American Painting and Sculpture
  • Ancient Art
  • Art of the ancient Americas ( Pre-Columbian Art)
  • Asian Art
  • Coins and Medals
  • European Art
  • Modern and Contemporary Art

Alone in the field of modern and contemporary art, there are, for example, works by Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian, Eva Hesse and Roni Horn.

Lucas Cranach the Elder: The Crucifixion with the Converted Centurion

Hieronymus Bosch: Allegory of Gluttony and Lust

Édouard Manet: Young woman lying in Spanish Costume

Claude Monet: The Artist's Garden at Giverny

Claude Lorrain: Landscape with Shepherds

Assyrian Relief: spirit with a human head irrigated sacred tree

George Stubbs: Lion attacks horse

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