SPECIAL ADVISORY: In accordance with Yale University’s revised COVID-19 protocols, the Yale University Art Gallery will close to the public beginning Friday, October 16, 2020. Learn More

Today’s hours: Closed Today

Current Exhibitions

James Prosek, Bird Spectrum (detail), 2019
James Prosek: Art, Artifact, Artifice
February 14, 2020–February 28, 2021
John Wilson, Study for The Incident, 1952
Reckoning with “The Incident”: John Wilson’s Studies for a Lynching Mural
January 17, 2020–February 28, 2021
Sea Monster Mask, 1999. Wood, plastic, textile, and paint
Place, Nations, Generations, Beings: 200 Years of Indigenous North American Art
November 1, 2019–February 28, 2021

All Upcoming Events

E-Study Tours
02/26

E-Study Tour, The Layered Edge: A Survey of Plywood Furniture

Kevin Adkisson and Alexandra Ward
Friday, February 26, 2021, 12:30 pm
Charles Eames and Ray Eames, Preproduction DCW (Dining Chair Wood), 1945–46. Birch plywood, rubber, steel, and resin. Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Randall Garrett, B.A. 1972, M.A. 1975
Featured Programs
03/03

Featured Program, Active Looking: The Body in Dialogue with Art

Eryn Rosenthal
Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 12:30 pm
Educator Workshops
03/04

Educator Workshop, Teacher Leadership Program

Jessica Sack, Rachel Thompson, and Wurtele Gallery Teachers
Thursday, March 4, 2021, 4:00 pm
Conversations
03/05

Pablo Picasso at Yale: Picasso, Spaniard in Paris

John Walsh with Laurence Kanter
Friday, March 5, 2021, 12:30 pm
Pablo Picasso, Café Scene, 1900. Oil on panel. Yale University Art Gallery, Transfer from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Gift of Alice B. Toklas to the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature
E-Highlights Tours
03/10

E-Highlights Tour, Double Take: Looking at Art with Gallery Guides

Undergraduate Gallery Guides
Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 12:30 pm
Conversations
03/12

Pablo Picasso at Yale: Cubism, Picasso, and Still Life

John Walsh with Joanna Fiduccia
Friday, March 12, 2021, 12:30 pm
Pablo Picasso, Dog and Cock, 1921. Oil on canvas. Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903
Conversations
03/19

Pablo Picasso at Yale: Cubism, Picasso, and the Human Figure

John Walsh with Keely Orgeman
Friday, March 19, 2021, 12:30 pm
Pablo Picasso, Standing Nude, 1910. Pen and ink. Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Walter Bareiss, B.S. 1940S
E-Highlights Tours
03/25

E-Highlights Tour, Double Take: Looking at Art with Gallery Guides

Akio Ho and Sydney Skelton Simon
Thursday, March 25, 2021, 4:00 pm
All public programs are generously sponsored by the Martin A. Ryerson Lectureship Fund and the John Walsh Lecture and Education Fund.