Membership
Parking is discounted to a flat $5 at which parking garage for our members?
Chapel-York Garage
Before the common use of the word museum, this word meant a place where paintings were hung for display, though not necessarily for sale.
Gallery
If you don’t know where the Garvan collection is, get comfy and do some research. Consider taking a seat, pouring yourself some tea from a silver set, and putting your feet up on an ottoman… just don’t do it in this gallery.
American Decorative Arts before 1900
Inspired by a painting of Elihu Yale at the YCBA featuring an enslaved child, this MFA graduate made a painting critiquing the work, which has since hung at the Gallery. Was he inspired by our Trumbull portrait of Washington for his other work that hangs in our gallery?
Titus Kaphar
“Where can I find the artifacts that Hiram Bingham brought back to Yale from Machu Picchu”
Cuzco, Peru
Members enjoy a 20% off discount on what items in the museum store?
Publications
The bodies of Johnathan and Sarah Trumbull are interred where in the Gallery? For bonus points, under what painting?
The Nolen Center Library (below General George Washington at Trenton)
The Drier collection, given by Katherine Drier and Marcel Duchamp, is located in which department (and contains artwork from both of them).
Modern and Contemporary Art
This artist, featured in Women at Yale and shown periodically in our galleries, was recently contracted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to create a series of Afro-Futuristic sculptures for their façade.
Wangechi Mutu
“I want to see the part of the Gallery that Paul Mellon funded. I hear he was a real Anglophile. Where can I find that?”
Yale Center for British Art
The Gallery’s printed newsletter is sent out to members how many times per year?
Two times
Shields adorn the walls of the Ancient Art gallery, near the ceiling. The coat of arms on the shields represent what?
Famous historical patrons of the arts
The Jarves collection of this type of artwork was originally hung in the current Ancient Art gallery, as they were a good match with the Gothic architecture. The Feigen collection followed soon after.
Early European Painting.
You’ve seen her work at the Gallery, perhaps, but its more likely you’ve seen her sculptures around campus or at the Mall. The National Mall that is…
Maya Lin
“I’m looking for this book with a brown cover… it’s really famous, one of the first books printed and I’m pretty sure it’s here in the Gallery.” What book and where is it?
The Gutenberg Bible - Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
How can a visitor obtain a new membership card?
Contact Courtney Long (Membership Office) via email
Prints, drawings, and photographs are rotated more frequently that other artworks, and are exhibited under controlled conditions to prevent what?
Fading
The promised gift of Thomas Jaffe includes many colorful textiles and carvings in this department's collection, though the "Old Gold" came from the Thompson collection.
Indo-Pacific Art
The author of “Interaction of Color”, a former Yale professor, would famously note that there are no absolutes in color. His paintings like “Homage to the Square” are fields of color next to each other, demonstrating this.
Josef Albers
Claes Oldenberg’s famous statue “Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks” is found in the courtyard of which residential college?
Morse College
Students move frequently, so what membership benefit is provided digitally to student members as a result of not collecting their address information?
Membership card
The view from the 4th floor mezzanine window looks out onto what clandestine courtyard?
Skull and Bones
Margaret and Angus Wurtele are the namesake of a study center at this off campus Yale property, where objects are stored in glass cases and visitors can hopefully tour once again.
West Campus
This artist recently did an exhibition at the Gallery called Redoubt, a combination of installation and film that is emblematic of much of his work. That said, you might also know him as Bjork’s ex husband.
Matthew Barney
The Vinland Map, a medieval treasure showing the travels of Vikings to the New World, has recently been declared a fake. It’s still in the collections at what Yale entity?
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library