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Yale University Art Gallery: Louis Kahn's Iconic Design Housing America's Oldest University Art Collection

Yale University Art Gallery: Louis Kahn s Iconic Design Housing America s Oldest University Art Collection

The Yale University Art Gallery, architect Louis Kahn's first major commission, holds the oldest university art collection in the United States. Highlights include Vincent van Gogh's The Night Café, European masterpieces by Frans Hals, Peter Paul Rubens, Édouard Manet, and Pablo Picasso, plus American works by Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, and Jackson Pollock. Discover 18th-century silver, and art from Africa, Asia, and the pre- and post-Columbian Americas—all free to explore.


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