Yale University Art Gallery
My wife and I traveled to Connecticut the weekend before last to visit one of the galleries that carries my paintings, the Art Essex Gallery in Essex, and the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme to check out their impressive Arthur Heming painting and illustration exhibition. We also drove over to see the just expanded Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven. I had visited before and knew they had a real powerhouse collection (paintings by most of the great masters you can think of, which is impressive, but moreover they got good ones. Really good ones). The museum has grown significantly in size and so now there's more to see than you can reasonably take in. We're going to have to schedule another visit sooner than later. Following are a few hightlights from Yale's Collection. Above is a wonderful small oil by Edward Vuillard (French 1868-1940), The Thread , from 1893. Vuillard is showing off his mastery of design here in a big way with the elegant rhy