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[https://artgallery.yale.edu/research-and-learning/curatorial-areas/american-paintings-and-sculpture/american-paintings-and-0 by YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY] | [https://artgallery.yale.edu/research-and-learning/curatorial-areas/american-paintings-and-sculpture/american-paintings-and-0 by YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY] | ||
The Yale University Art Gallery’s American paintings and sculpture collection was reinstalled in summer 2017, refreshing the presentation of the Gallery’s renowned collection of American fine art from the colonial period to the early 20th century. The new layouts of the Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation Galleries of American Art before 1900 and the Mary Jo and Ted Shen Gallery have reoriented the story of American art for our visitors, and the display was also conceived with the flexibility to integrate rotations of light-sensitive artworks that showcase the richness and depth of the Gallery’s collection. We hope that you will come, enjoy, rediscover old favorites, and find some new ones. | The Yale University Art Gallery’s American paintings and sculpture collection was reinstalled in summer 2017, refreshing the presentation of the Gallery’s renowned collection of American fine art from the colonial period to the early 20th century. The new layouts of the Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation Galleries of American Art before 1900 and the Mary Jo and Ted Shen Gallery have reoriented the story of American art for our visitors, and the display was also conceived with the flexibility to integrate rotations of light-sensitive artworks that showcase the richness and depth of the Gallery’s collection. We hope that you will come, enjoy, rediscover old favorites, and find some new ones. | ||
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[https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/713572 by Jennifer Van Horn THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS JOURNALS] | |||
This essay investigates a pair of early American andirons that depict identical African figures, each holding a decanter and wine glass. Manufactured by enslaved laborers at an unidentified iron foundry, the andirons depict Black bodies laboring in service. The andirons resemble contemporary representations of enslaved attendants serving White subjects in portraits, as well as woodblock-printed figures that decorated newspaper advertisements for slave auctions. Yet because of their materiality, they complicated the fantasies these visual artifacts proclaim. | |||
