Museum Monday: A Retrospective Selection of Photographs, Autumn Colors & Rich Founding Roots

Samuel Ludwig. “Yale University Art Gallery no. 02”. 2011-Sep-16. 2012-Sep-10.
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You can count on the fingers of both hands the number of colonial colleges whose foundations were established prior to the revolutionary war between England and its American colonies.

However, despite the eliteness of this group there remains a few highly distinguished notables. Yale University, founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, is one. The university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States.

micromolar. “Yale University Art Gallery”. 2007-Jun-24. 2012-Sep-10.
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A Campus Matured Into One of the World’s Great Universities

Yale has over 11,000 students coming from all fifty American states and 108 countries. The faculty is a richly diverse group and are leaders in their respective fields. The central campus covers 310 acres in downtown New Haven. It has been called “the most beautiful urban campus in America,” especially as the tree-shaded neighborhoods surrounding it ignite into a firestorm of reds, oranges, and yellows every fall.

Yale was one of the first American universities to foster the arts. It is an internationally recognized center for the visual and performing arts. Yale University has two major art museums, including its celebrated Yale University Art Gallery. The campus also has a critically acclaimed repertory theater, state-of-the-art concert halls, and world-renowned Schools of Architecture, Art, Drama, and Music.

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According to its website; “The mission of the Yale University Art Gallery is to encourage appreciation and understanding of art and its role in society through direct engagement with original works of art. The Gallery stimulates active learning about art and the creative process through research, teaching, and dialogue among communities of Yale students, faculty, artists, scholars, alumni, and the wider public.”

The Yale University Art Gallery is open to the public and admission is free.

In addition to organizing, building and maintaining its collections for access at the physical New Haven location, Gallery staff encourages discovery of the treasures within its collections through their work to make them available online via eCatalogue. This online application allows users connected through the Internet to search over 120,000 cataloged objects. A quick search using the selection of ‘works on paper - photographs’ yielded over 9,200 records.

Now On View Organized by the Yale University Art Gallery, the Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs exhibit, features nearly 300 gelatin silver prints drawn from the Yale University Art Gallery’s master sets of the photographer’s work, along with an array of his monographs. The exhibition traces Adams’s deep engagement with the geography of the American West, weaving together various aspects of over four decades of work into a cohesive, epic narrative of the American experience.

The Gallery also has also digitized the prints through photo scanning them and made the exhibit available online, along with four other exhibitions.

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