Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven, United States
Visitor Information
Museum Address
1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
New Haven, United States
Ticket Prices
Free
Featured Artists
4 artists in database
The Yale University Art Gallery was founded in 1832, making it the oldest university art museum in the Western Hemisphere. Its main building, designed by Louis Kahn between 1947 and 1953, is known for an innovative tetrahedral concrete ceiling that became one of the architect's signature achievements.
The gallery holds more than 300,000 objects, with particular strength in early Italian Renaissance painting, African sculpture, and American art. Its most recognized painting is Vincent van Gogh's The Night Café, acquired in 1961 and painted in 1888 while van Gogh was living in Arles.
Renaissance holdings include Paolo Veronese's Mystic Marriage of St Catherine and Gentile da Fabriano's Madonna and Child, while American painting is represented by Winslow Homer's Game of Croquet.
Visiting Yale University Art Gallery
Yes, always free. No tickets or reservations required. Just walk in during open hours. This makes it one of the best free art museums in the United States.
No, that's at MoMA in New York. Yale has Van Gogh's The Night Café, which shows the interior of the same café Van Gogh frequented in Arles. It's a major work with its own fame.
Anyone can visit. It's a public museum open to all, not restricted to Yale affiliates. The collection rivals major city museums and benefits from being in a beautiful Louis Kahn building.
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