Arrive Magazine - September/October, 2010

Clockwise, far left: Yale University Art Gallery, built by the architect Louis Kahn; the Evergreen Museum & Library exterior; the stenciled walls of the Léon Bakst-designed theater at Evergreen Museum & Library at Johns Hopkins University; Edward Hopper, Rooms by the Sea, 1951. Oil on canvas. Yale University Art Gallery, Bequest of Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903.

Yale University Art Gallery

New Haven, Conn.

America’s oldest college art museum was founded in 1832 when artist John Trumbull donated nearly 100 of his paintings. The collection has grown to more than 185,000 objects dating from ancient times to the present day and ranging from Greek and Roman sculpture to such iconic works as Vincent van Gogh’s Night Café and Edward Hopper’s Rooms by the Sea. A highlight is the vibrant African Art exhibit, which features an intriguing array of objects such as ritual figures, masks and headdresses.

After exploring the galleries, relax in the Wurtele Sculpture Garden or peruse a selection of art books in the lobby. During the academic year, themed gallery tours are given by Yale undergraduates.

1111 Chapel St. (at York Street)

Ne w Haven, Conn. 203-432-0600 artgallery.yale.edu

Evergreen Museum & Library,
Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore This 48-room Gilded Age mansion, purchased by a railroad magnate for his son in 1878, is filled with more than 50,000 objets d’art. Two of its jaw-dropping features are a gold-plated bathroom and a private theater decorated by famed Russian painter Léon Bakst, where you can catch a performance during the museum’s concert series.

As you meander through the man-
sion (shown by guided tour), “look up,
down, left, right—everywhere,” sug-
gests director and curator James Archer
Abbott. “This is a layered collection that
always reveals something new with each
return visit.”
Like a Picasso, perhaps, or one of the
largest private collections of Tiffany glass.