About the museum
The story of the Yale University Art Gallery
The Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, was founded in 1832, when the painter John Trumbull gave his paintings of the American Revolution to the university. It is the oldest university art museum in the Americas.
Its collection spans the world, with particular strengths in American painting and European modern art.
The collection
The gallery holds more than 300,000 objects, from ancient art and the finds from the Roman city of Dura-Europos to African, Asian and contemporary art.
Its American paintings include John Trumbull's history paintings of the Revolution, and its European collection includes Van Gogh's The Night Café, bequeathed by Stephen Carlton Clark in 1961.
At ArtLogia you can order 56 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 38 artists led by Eugène Louis Boudin, John Trumbull and Gustave Courbet.
- paintings to order
- 56
- artists
- 38
- art movements
- 14
- years covered
- 1340–1912
The building
Louis Kahn's building of 1953 on Chapel Street was his first major commission and one of the first modernist museums in the United States; it was joined to the older Street Hall and Swartwout building in a 2012 renovation.
Masterpieces to see
Planning a visit
Admission is free and open to everyone, not just students.
![Roger Sherman (1721–1793, M.A. [Hon.] 1768) by Ralph Earl (1775), hand-painted oil painting reproduction on canvas](/img/2560/75/images/paintings/roger-sherman-1721-1793-m-a-hon-1768-ralph-earl-oil-painting-reproduction.jpg.webp "Roger Sherman (1721–1793, M.A. [Hon.] 1768) – Ralph Earl oil painting reproduction")
