“Zebra,” by George Stubbs — one of the most iconic works of art in the Yale Center for British Art’s collection — has crossed Chapel St. for the first time to hang in the Yale University Art Gallery, along with hundreds of other treasures of Romantic-era...
As most 25-year-old men marched off to war in 1861, artist Winslow Homer took a different path to the front.
Armed with drawing utensils and paper, he was one of a select group of artist-reporters embedded with Union troops, documenting battles as well as...
As the nation celebrates Independence Day on July 4, it’s worth noting that not only has Yale been a university longer than the United States has been a country — by a full 75 years — but also that many of its alumni played an integral role in its...
Davis Tutt shouldn’t have taken Wild Bill’s watch.Postcard of James Butler (Wild Bill) Hickok, by the Arthur Jaff Heliochrome Co. in New York; published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book...