Yale Art Gallery

Tweets from the galleries, behind-the-scenes photos, and more from America's oldest university art museum.

[Yale Art Gallery @YaleArtGallery]

Announcement:

The Gallery is observing a brief summer closure from Tuesday, August 4, through Friday, August 7. We will reopen on Saturday, August 8.

[SPAIN arts & culture @spaincultureus]

✨Museum of the Month ✨📣
🖼️ ✨This month we’re spotlighting @YaleArtGallery!
📍New Haven, CT
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1️⃣🖼️ The Education of the Virgin by Diego Velázquez
2️⃣🖼️ Portrait of an Ecclesiastic by Juan de Valdés Leal
🔗 https://t.co/Hcgwc2SO9h

[Yale Art Gallery @YaleArtGallery]

"Romney: Brilliant Contrasts in Georgian England" opens today! Co-organized by the Gallery and @YaleBritishArt (YCBA), this exhibition coincides with the YCBA's grand reopening tomorrow, March 29. Learn more below!
https://t.co/aHYJURWjxW

[Yale University @Yale]

“Focal Point,” a series highlighting noteworthy items from Yale’s vast collections, looks at this 1909 painting by Wassily Kandinsky that playfully distorts the landscape’s natural forms into a fantastical scene.

The Russian artist painted “The Waterfall” during a period of artistic transition, during which his naturalist landscapes transformed into abstract compositions. Inspired by the German countryside near Munich, Kandinsky playfully distorts the landscape’s natural forms into a fantastical scene.

“Kandinsky’s depiction of multicolored foliage surrounding a waterfall is more mysterious than it might at first appear,” says Keely Orgeman, the Seymour H. Knox, Jr. Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the @YaleArtGallery.

“He made related compositions during this period that portrayed robed figures in apocalyptic scenes," said Knox. "Here, in what seems instead to be a vision of paradise, a standing figure with a brown head-covering and another figure with an orange one can be barely discerned on the right side of the waterfall, their robes cascading alongside it.” 

Dive deeper into the "Focal Point" series: https://t.co/r1Ely640BS #Yale

[Yale University @Yale]

For generations, #Yale College courses have opened new worlds to undergraduates by engaging them with the university’s library and museum collections. Students explore the archives of literary luminaries. They closely examine artwork and artifacts from across cultures and history. They turn parchment pages and handle exquisitely crafted objects.

This fall, dozens of first-year students didn’t simply study a contemporary sculpture at the @YaleArtGallery. They rolled up their sleeves and built one.

The students, who are enrolled in what is known as the “Six Pretty Good Ideas” seminar program, helped erect “Monument (Pyramid),” a sculpture by artist Maren Hassinger that the gallery acquired earlier this year. Instead of obtaining the completed sculpture — a 10-foot-tall pyramid composed of tree branches affixed to a steel frame — the museum acquired a set of instructions guiding the piece’s installation, which prioritized community involvement.

Senuli Peiris, a student of the “Six Pretty Good Interior Journeys” seminar, spent her shift sorting branches by size and attaching them to the frame.

“It was nice to focus on the task at hand and get lost in the work,” she said. “I hadn’t heard of artworks being assembled in this way before, so I appreciate the experience. I’m interested to see what the sculpture looks like when its finished.”

Hassinger viewed photos of the work in progress and the completed sculpture. What she saw impressed her.

“They did such a lovely job,” she said. “It is attractive and makes physical sense. Everything is flowing nicely. I’m just very pleased with how it looks.”

But craftsmanship aside, Hassinger said she was happy that the project gave students a chance to work together to build something.

[The Magazine ANTIQUES @AntiquesMag]

One snowy day in Gloucestershire, John Singer Sargent and Edwin Austin Abbey set up a mannequin dressed as a medieval troubadour and took turns painting it from their studio window.

John Singer Sargent, Mannikin in the Snow, c. 1891-1893, @yaleartgallery

#AntiqueOfTheDay

[Yale Urology @Yale_Urology]

During the recent Yale #Urology #Pediatric Visiting Professor Day, residents and visiting professor Christopher S. Cooper (@Coopeduro), MD, toured the Yale campus, including stops at the @YaleArtGallery and Sterling Memorial Library (@yalelibrary).

#ProudToBeYalies|@YaleMed

[Yale Art Gallery @YaleArtGallery]

@hyperallergic lauds "The Dance of Life" as an "inspirational exhibition" in its list of 2024's "50 Best Exhibitions Around the World". Don't miss your last chance to see the show before it closes on January 5th!
https://t.co/gBWa77dMOD

[Yale University @Yale]

For generations, Yale College courses have opened new worlds to undergraduates by engaging them with the university’s library and museum collections. Students explore the archives of literary luminaries. They closely examine artwork and artifacts from across cultures and history. They turn parchment pages and handle exquisitely crafted objects.

This fall, dozens of first-year students didn’t simply study a contemporary sculpture at the @YaleArtGallery. They rolled up their sleeves and built one.

The students, who are enrolled in what is known as the “Six Pretty Good Ideas” seminar program, helped erect “Monument (Pyramid),” a sculpture by artist Maren Hassinger that the gallery acquired earlier this year. Instead of obtaining the completed sculpture — a 10-foot-tall pyramid composed of tree branches affixed to a steel frame — the museum acquired a set of instructions guiding the piece’s installation, which prioritized community involvement: https://t.co/rnnOt63pjb #Yale

[Yale Art Gallery @YaleArtGallery]

Opening February 21, 2025, "David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive" is a major traveling retrospective exhibition that spans the seven decades of the South African photographer’s career, from the 1950s through the 2010s. Learn more below!

https://t.co/nUxJbIZhyw

[Yale Art Gallery @YaleArtGallery]

Please join us in welcoming Bryan R. Just (B.A. 1995), the Gallery's new Molly and Walter Bareiss Curator of Ancient Art!
https://t.co/PspKuk2TbI

[Yale Alumni Magazine @yalealumnimag]

New in the @yaleartgallery sculpture garden: “Monument (Pyramid)” by Maren Hassinger. The pyramid consists of a metal frame covered in buckthorn branches collected last month from the Quinnipiac Meadows Eugene B. Fargeorge Preserve in New Haven.

[La Tribune de l'Art English @ltdla_English]

A painting by Francesco Hayez acquired by Yale @YaleArtGallery https://t.co/aWMVvQUWaV

[La Tribune de l'Art English @ltdla_English]

A second painting by Francesco Hayez for Yale @YaleArtGallery https://t.co/GxQRQ2vTqv

[Windham-Campbell Prizes @WindhamCampbell]

The event finale of the Windham Campbell Prizes Festival 2024, the ‘Prize Recipient Readings’, at the Yale University Art Gallery, did not disappoint!

We were honored to hear short readings - including some work in progress - from this year’s recipients at the #WCPFestival24: Kathryn Scanlan (fiction), Deirdre Madden (fiction), Christina Sharpe (nonfiction), Hanif Abdurraqib (nonfiction), Christopher Chen (drama), Sonya Kelly (drama), Jen Hadfield (poetry), and m. nourbeSe philip (poetry). 📖

Their words moved, inspired, and captivated the audience, making this an unforgettable evening. Thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate these extraordinary writers! 📚

📸: by Beowulf Sheehan

[The Magazine ANTIQUES @AntiquesMag]

Edwin Austin Abbey’s illustrations captured the imaginations of the Victorians. @yaleartgallery holds a collection of his sketches, including this beguiling woman clad in all white.

Edwin Austin Abbey, Figure study, Oil on canvas, c. 1871-1911, @yaleartgallery
#AntiqueOfTheDay

[Yale Alumni Magazine @yalealumnimag]

Now showing at the @yaleartgallery: “The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876–1917.” The exhibition focuses on the human form in sketches and studies for major public art commissions during the period known as the American Renaissance. 1/2

[Yale Art Gallery @YaleArtGallery]

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[Yale Art Gallery @YaleArtGallery]

Thank you @newhavenindy for the glowing review of our latest Prints and Drawing Rotation "Everything is Political," on view through mid-November!
https://t.co/eMeuL6jZkf