The gallery’s collection of ancient art has returned to the light-filled sculpture hall of the Old Art Gallery (above), a space that for many years contained only the site-specific sculpture Stacks by Richard Serra ’64MFA. (Stacks was moved to a restored sunken courtyard next to York Street in 2006.) In the background behind a leaded glass window is one of many new classrooms in the gallery where objects can be brought in for study by visiting classes. Also adjacent to the sculpture hall is a new home for Yale’s collection of 100,000 coins and medals, many of which are on view in other galleries.
A new glass elevator was built in Street Hall in order to make the building accessible to people who can’t climb stairs. The floors of Street Hall and the Old Art Gallery do not align, so the elevator stops at several floor levels between the two buildings.
Part of the Old Art Gallery that used to be devoted to American decorative arts has been recast as a gallery for modern and contemporary art, including works by Mark Rothko ’25, Chuck Close ’64MFA, and Ellsworth Kelly. In the background behind the columned archways is one of four Sol Lewitt wall drawings in the gallery.
Elizabeth Felicella
The expansion of gallery space made room for some recently acquired collections. On the second floor of the gallery’s Louis Kahn building is a space devoted to Indo-Pacific art, much of it a promised gift from collector Thomas Jaffe ’71.
hroughout the galleries, wall colors were chosen by curators to complement their collections. The vivid colors of Yale’s noted collection of early Italian art, on the second floor of the Old Art Gallery, are shown off by dark blue walls.
Among the biggest surprises in the renovation is the reemergence of Street Hall, which was once home to both the art gallery and the School of Art. The building’s generous gallery spaces had been carved up and its rich details had been hidden over the years. A restored gallery on the second floor of Street is home to American sculpture and paintings, including the John Trumbull paintings of the American Revolution that formed the core of the gallery’s collection when Trumbull sold them to Yale in 1832.
The gallery reclaimed a forgotten corner of the Old Campus outside Street Hall, landscaping it and installing outdoor sculptures from its collection, including David Smith’s Bec-Dida Day (above).
Outside a new gallery for temporary exhibitions added to the top of the Old Art Gallery, a rooftop sculpture terrace includes works by Henry Moore (foreground) and Aristide Maillol (background).
The three buildings that now house the gallery cover a block and a half of Chapel Street (above). Street Hall (1866), the oldest of the buildings, is at right; the Old Art Gallery (1928) is in the center, and the 1953 addition by Louis Kahn is at left. In addition to exhibit space, Street Hall now includes, on its ground floor, a space devoted to educational programs.
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