Yale Art Gallery Concrete Wall

The stone and block walls of the metropolitan museum of art s cloisters are an exception to.

Yale art gallery concrete wall.

Constructed of masonry concrete glass and steel and presenting a windowless wall along its most public facade the kahn building was the first modernist structure at yale. To safeguard against the spread of covid 19 the yale university art gallery will remain closed until further notice. This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the yale university art gallery s complete or current knowledge about the object. Common drywall is the usual museum choice.

Encompassing close to 2 000 objects the yale university art gallery s collection of european art comprises paintings sculpture textiles and a small but distinguished group of decorative arts spanning the 9th through the 19th centuries. When it opened in 1953 the building included open spaces for the exhibition of art and studio spaces for use by art and architecture students. It also reduces the height of the floor to floor channeling the air through the structure. Yale university art gallery 2007 1 115 152.