 | Giovanni di Paolo's "St. Clare of Assisi Blessing the Bread before Pope Innocent IV" from the Yale Art Gallery's permanent collection is currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. |
Rather than putting works from its permanent collection into storage while its building is being renovated, the Yale University Art Gallery has put them on display -- in New York City.
The gallery has loaned a group of 40 early Italian paintings from its permanent collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for an extended period.
The works, primarily Florentine and Sienese panels of the 13th through 15th centuries, were chosen to complement the Metropolitan's Robert Lehman Collection and are on display alongside those holdings. The combination of the two collections creates one of the most comprehensive display of early Tuscan paintings in America.
The core of Yale's collection of Italian Renaissance paintings was assembled by James Jackson Jarves in the mid-19th century, and was one of the first such collections to come to the United States. Since then, the Yale Art Gallery's holdings of Italian art have grown via gift, bequest and purchase to become one of the most renowned university collections in the world.
"It is particularly gratifying to have these paintings housed in the Lehman Wing," says Laurence B. Kanter, who serves as both the curator in charge of the Metropolitan's Lehman Collection and the Lionel Goldfrank III Curator of European Art at the Yale Art Gallery.
"Robert Lehman was himself a Yale alumnus, Class of 1913, and a generous benefactor of the Art Gallery," adds Kanter. "His tastes as a collector were in part formed by his early exposure to Italian paintings in the Jarves Collection."
During the estimated two-year restoration of the Yale Art Gallery's historic Louis I. Kahn building, the adjoining Italian gothic structure designed by Egerton Swartout will become the center of the museum's activities. In this part of the museum are the galleries housing Yale's collections of American paintings, sculpture and decorative arts, as well as a new temporary installation on the first floor with close to 50 key works selected by Kanter from the early European collection, as well as ones from the African, Asian, modern and contemporary, and pre-Columbian collections.
For information on the Metropolitan Museum's location and hours, call (212) 535-7710 or consult the website at www.metmuseum.org.
The Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St., is open Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (until 8 p.m. on Thursdays except in July and August), and Sunday, 1-6 p.m. Admission is free for individuals; groups should call (203) 432-8459 for information about fees and to make a reservation. For information on handicapped access, call (203) 432-0606. For general information, call (203) 432-0600 or visit the gallery's website at www.yale.edu/artgallery.
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