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[https://artgallery.yale.edu/research-and-learning/curatorial-areas/american-paintings-and-sculpture by YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY] | [https://artgallery.yale.edu/research-and-learning/curatorial-areas/american-paintings-and-sculpture by YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY] | ||
Yale University has been collecting American art for more than 250 years. In 1832 it erected the first art museum on a college campus in North America, with the intention of housing John Trumbull’s paintings of the American Revolution—including his iconic painting The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776—and close to 100 of his portraits of Revolutionary and Early Republic worthies. | Yale University has been collecting American art for more than 250 years. In 1832 it erected the first art museum on a college campus in North America, with the intention of housing John Trumbull’s paintings of the American Revolution—including his iconic painting The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776—and close to 100 of his portraits of Revolutionary and Early Republic worthies. | ||
=====Foundations of American Art===== | |||
[https://crystalbridges.org/calendar/foundations-of-american-art/ by THE MOMENTARY] | |||
Spanning from the 18th century to the mid-20th century, the newly installed Foundations of American Art gallery—the first fully transformed gallery in our expansion—offers an engaging and immersive journey through the early and modern chapters of our shared cultural story. | |||
