About Your Visit

While the Old Yale Art Gallery building undergoes renovation, the Kahn building is open, displaying works from the collections of European art, modern and contemporary art, American paintings and sculpture, and American decorative arts on the third floor. The second floor galleries feature a rotating selection of works from the African and Asian collections, and the first floor contains special exhibitions.

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New online resources

The James J. Ross Archive of African Images
A collaboration among the Yale University Art Gallery, the Yale University Library and Yale alumnus James J. Ross, B.A. 1960, The Ross Archive of African Images is a comprehensive database of images, representing the majority of illustrations of African objects from south of the Sahara published between 1590 and 1920 in books, periodicals, catalogues, newspapers, and other publications. The archive includes close to 5,000 images culled from public and private collections, and sheds light on how objects were used in their original contexts, such as ceremonies, shrines, village displays, and day-to-day use. It allows scholars, students, and those seeking a visual survey of African culture access to virtually every image publicly available from 1590 to 1920, along with the original accompanying text, providing an enlightening glimpse into the scholarship and attitudes of the day.

The Rhode Island Furniture Archive
The Rhode Island Furniture Archive at the Yale University Art Gallery is an online database documenting furniture and furniture making in Rhode Island from the time of first European colonization in 1636 through the early 19th century. The archive brings together records of surviving furniture, individuals who owned it, and known furniture makers, and aims to provide a complete account of the specific culture, local variations, and artistic practices surrounding the first two centuries of furniture making in Rhode Island. When it launched on October 18, 2010, the website made available searchable records on more than 3,000 examples of case furniture, looking glasses, and seating furniture, as well as the names and biographies of more than 1,500 craftsmen in the furniture and allied trades from 1650 to 1820. In the course of the next year, records for clocks and tables will be added, and additional features, including multiple images.