YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY

The Yale University Art Gallery’s permanent collection includes over 185,000 works, organized into ten curatorial areas. Selections from each department are featured here. Brief informative texts offer a curatorial perspective for each of the works, many of which are currently on view.

		African Art Ritual figures, masks, and articles of personal adornment particularly from West and Central Africa.				American Decorative Arts Silver, glass, ceramics, pewter, textiles, and furniture from colonial America to the present. Revere, Eames, Stickley, Graves....

		American Paintings and Sculpture Paintings, sculpture, and miniatures, from colonial America through the mid-twentieth century. Bierstadt, Copley, Eakins, Hopper, Homer, Calder....				Ancient Art Paintings, sculpture, glass, vessels, figurines, mosaics, bronzes, and artifacts of daily living from the Near East, Egypt, Greece, Etruria, and Rome ranging in date from the Neolithic through the early Byzantine periods.

		Art of the Ancient Americas Ritual objects, articles of personal adornment, figurines, vessels, and panels. Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Tairona, Inca....				Asian Art Paintings, calligraphy, prints, sculpture, ceramics, bronzes, jades, lacquerware, textiles, and screens from ancient to modern China, Japan, Korea, and South and Southeast Asia.

		Coins and Medals Coins, medals, and paper money from the seventh century B.C. to the present. Greek, Roman, Renaissance, American....				Early European Art Paintings and sculpture from early Renaissance Tuscany to nineteenth-century France. Fra Angelico, Pontormo, Holbein, Rubens, Hals, Tiepolo, Corot....

		Modern and Contemporary Art Paintings and sculpture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Cezanne, Picasso, Van Gogh, Duchamp, Mondrian, Hesse, Horn....				Prints, Drawings, and Photographs European and American works on paper from the fifteenth century to the present. Dürer, Rembrandt, Pollock, Degas, Evans, Strand....