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The Yale University Art Gallery is the oldest university museum institution on the soil of the United States of America.
The gallery was founded in 1832, when the artist-patriot John Trumbull donated more than 100 paintings of the American Revolution to Yale College
The Romanesque building in Tuscan style was designed by Egerton Swartwout and built in 1928 to house the growing collection. However, the main gallery building was created between 1947 and 1953 and was among the first designed by Louis Kahn, who taught architecture at Yale.
Although the art gallery with a steel and reinforced concrete structure may seem simple at first glance, it was designed with a rigorous process. Kahn devised a slab that had to be poured into metal molds shaped like three-sided pyramids. When the molds were removed, they left a thick mass of concrete imprinted with tetrahedral openings.
The collections of the Yale University Art Gallery include magnificent works from around the world. However, although it spans all cultures and periods, the gallery emphasizes early Italian painting, African sculpture, and modern art.
Furthermore, the museum is a member of the North American Reciprocal Museums program.
In 1998, the gallery began a major renovation and expansion. A renovation of the 1953 building was completed in December 2006
The project was completed on December 12, 2012, at a cost of $135 million. In December 2011, the museum announced a gift of $11 million from alumnus Stephen Susman to create new art exhibition galleries on the newly created fourth floor of the museum.
