The Yale University Art Gallery combines three buildings. Peter Bonnett Wight designed Street Hall, opened in 1866, with a neo-Gothic exterior influenced by 13th-century Venetian palaces. Egerton Swartwout designed the 1928 building, which mixes Romanesque, Gothic and Classical features, with a pitched slate roof and stone arches. A bridge over High Street links the two.
Louis Kahn designed the modernist main building from 1947 to 1953, after the original architect, Philip Goodwin, withdrew for health reasons. Its steel and reinforced concrete structure uses concrete poured into three-sided pyramid forms, and Anne Tyng helped devise the slab and designed the triangular gallery ceiling.
John Trumbull's 1832 donation of over 100 paintings founded the gallery. A $135 million renovation and expansion finished on December 12, 2012. It holds over 300,000 objects and charges no admission.
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