Jock Reynolds
Jock Reynolds is the former Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery.
Reynolds, Jock
Reynolds, Jock
United States of America
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Description: The Young Velázquez: The Education of the Virgin Restored
~The opportunity to redesign, renovate, and reinstall the three-building complex that is now the Yale University Art Gallery brought with it, a little over ten years ago, an equally important opportunity to review and reconsider nearly the entirety of our historic collections, now numbering in excess of 200,000 works of art. Fresh pairs of curatorial eyes...
PublisherYale University Art Gallery
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00167.002
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Description: Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures
~We are pleased to present Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures, the first book and exhibition to fully explore the strong ties between the history of the miniature and American private life. Miniatures have long been recognized as commemorating highly personal, frequently hidden associations between sitter and beholder. These tokens of...
PublisherYale University Art Gallery
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.VII-VIII
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00078.002
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Description: Tea Culture of Japan
IN JULY 2005, 116 WORKS OF ART relating to the tea culture of Japan arrived at the Yale University Art Gallery, on loan from Peggy and Richard M. Danziger, LL.B. 1963. The collectors’ expressed wish was that the objects would be experienced directly by students engaged in the study of Japan and Japanese...
PublisherYale University Art Gallery
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00115.002
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Description: The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America
For more than sixty years the Yale University Art Gallery has had the good fortune of housing the Société Anonyme Collection of modern art as part of its permanent collection. Generations of Yale students, scholars, and members of our public audience have been fascinated by this unique assemblage of more than one thousand works. Canonical...
PublisherYale University Art Gallery
PublisherYale University Press
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00159.002
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Description: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University...
The Yale University Art Gallery, the oldest university art museum in America, has long been famous for its extraordinary holdings in American paintings and decorative arts. The major multiyear renovation that the Gallery’s buildings are currently undergoing meant that these celebrated collections would be removed from public view for several years. We...
PublisherYale University Art Gallery
PublisherYale University Press
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00075.002
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Description: Livable Modernism: Interior Decorating and Design during the Great Depression
In 1983, the Yale University Art Gallery mounted the pioneering exhibition on 1920s American modern decorative arts, At Home in Manhattan, curated by Karen Davies, then a graduate student in the Department of the History of Art. At Home in Manhattan recovered a vibrant early world in...
PublisherYale University Art Gallery
PublisherYale University Press
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00076.002
Description: Small-Great Objects: Anni and Josef Albers in the Americas
Josef Albers (1888–1976, Hon. 1950, Hon. 1962) left an indelible legacy at Yale University, one he swiftly began to establish upon arriving in New Haven in 1950 from Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Josef had been recruited to head the Yale School of Art’s Department of Design by his good friend Charles Sawyer, who had in 1947 returned to his alma mater to become...
PublisherYale University Art Gallery
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00113.002
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Description: A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery,...
The years covered in A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920–1950 overlap with the formation of the Gallery’s American decorative arts collection through the substantial gift of Francis P. and Mabel Brady Garvan beginning in 1930. The strengths of the Mabel Brady Garvan Collection are the colonial and Federal periods, and for decades, these constituted the scope of the Gallery’s holdings in American decorative arts. When Charles F. Montgomery came to the …
PublisherYale University Art Gallery
PublisherYale University Press
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00002.002