Art Museums and Galleries
New Haven is a major destination for those who enjoy art museums and art galleries. Here is a brief guide to New Haven’s world of art.
ART MUSEUMS:
Yale Center for British Art
Housing the largest collection of British art outside the United Kingdom, the Yale Center for British Art is located in the center of downtown New Haven. The museum was founded when Yale graduate Paul Mellon bequeathed his extraordinary collection of British art to the University. The collection comprises paintings, drawings, prints, rare books and sculpture from the Elizabethan period to the present.
1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06510
Tue-Sat 10-5, Sun 12-5
(203) 432-2800
www.yale.edu/ycba
Yale University Art Gallery
The Yale Art Gallery is the nation's oldest college art museum; the gallery features 100,000 objects of art. The gallery's collections include ancient Egyptian and pre-Columbian artifacts, African sculpture, American paintings and decorative arts, Asian art and Italian Renaissance paintings. Also included are works by such 19th and 20th centuries artists as Kandinsky, Van Gogh, Manet, Degas, Picasso, O'Keefe and Pollack. From September through July, the gallery offers many traveling special exhibits and programs and is open to the public year round.
1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06510
Tue-Sat 10-5, Sun 1-6
203-432-0600
www.yale.edu/artgallery/
ART GALLERIES:
Here is a comprehensive guide to art galleries in downtown New Haven, listed alphabetically.
Artspace, Inc.
Artspace 's core programs are the annual City-Wide Open Studios (http://www.cwos.org) featuring the workplaces and installations of over 300 area visual artists, and the Untitled (Space) gallery, located at 220 College Street, across from the Shubert Theater. In addition to monthly shows featuring emerging artists, the gallery features the flatfile, a curated collection of 300 works on paper by over 50 regional and national artists. Artspace also organizes temporary public art installations at The Lot, 812 Chapel Street, and on bus shelters in downtown New Haven.
50 Orange St , New Haven, CT 06510
Tel 203 772 2709
Fax 203 772 2709
www.artspacenh.org
Gallery Hours Wed -Sat 11-3, Thur 11-7, and by appointment
Chapel Street Art Gallery
One of New England's largest art galleries, this permanent collection includes bronze sculpture, paintings and limited edition collection prints.
984 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06510
203-752-9412
City Spirit Artists
City Spirit Artists holds an exhibit series at the Community Foundation gallery.
70 Audubon Street, 5th floor, New Haven, CT 06510
203-773-1777
Creative Arts Workshop
A regional center for education in visual arts and craftwork, the workshop's three-story building within New Haven's arts complex includes a gallery with a year-round schedule of classes and exhibitions.
80 Audubon Street, New Haven, CT 06510
203-562-4927
www.creativeartsworkshop.org
Dodds Art Gallery
Located in Dodds Hall on the campus of the University of New Haven, this gallery offers the best of local, national and international artists.
300 Orange Avenue, West Haven, CT 06516
Call for hours 203- 932-7000
The Down Under Pottery
This gallery features hundreds of pots by Dennis Gentle.
151 Canner Street, New Haven, CT 06511
203-787-4524
Endleman Gallery
1014 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06510
203-776-2517
Erector Square Gallery
Opened in 1986, the Gallery is open September to May. Exhibitions change monthly. It features contemporary artists from around the area and two national competitions per year.
315 Peck Street, Bldg. #20, New Haven, CT 06513
203-865-5055
Hours: Wed-Sat 1-4
John Slade Ely House
This nonprofit center for artistic and humanitarian activities features eight galleries displaying the works of New Haven's oldest art clubs, the New Haven Paint and Clay Club and the Brush and Palette Club. During the academic year, the gallery exhibits the works of contemporary Connecticut artists.
51 Trumbull Street, New Haven, CT 06511
203- 624-8055
www.elyhouse.org
Mona Berman Fine Arts
Open by appointment only, this gallery features fine and ethnographic arts and specializes in corporate consulting, framing, appraisals and other fine art services.
78 Lyon Street, New Haven, CT 06511
203-562-4720
The Neon Garage
Mundy Hepburn, an internationally known artist in luminous glass sculpture, was commissioned to create a gallery of glass and gas--or neon–sculpture in this downtown parking garage.
260 Crown Street, New Haven, CT 06511
203-781-8035
Small Space Gallery
This intimate gallery within the Arts Council offices displays both contemporary and avant-garde work of local visual artists in one-person shows and group exhibits.
70 Audubon Street, 2nd floor, New Haven, CT 06510
(203) 772-2788
Wave Gallery
Located in the fashionable theater district in downtown New Haven, Wave Gallery offers a combination of hand-crafted contemporary gifts, paintings and sculpture.
263 College Street, New Haven, CT 06510
203-782-6212
Zoon Gallery
962 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06510
203-624-8086
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