Leo Tolstoy, his long beard white, stood beside a horse in a photograph on a screen under the Yale Farm’s Lazarus Pavilion. A second image showed an aerial photograph of the author’s estate, Yasnaya Polyana. A bungee cord tied to a cinderblock anchored...
Visitors to the Yale University Art Gallery ponder and enjoy the more than 4,000 works on display, but as is the case at many museums, the objects on view represent a small portion of the gallery’s holdings.
Out of necessity, tens of thousands of art...