AMERICAN ART MUSEUM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19486, 16 November 1926, Page 11

AMERICAN ART MUSEUM.

DONORS GIVE £200,009. GIFT TO YALE UNIVERSITY, The £200,000 gift to Yale University by two anonymous doners for an art museum to be connected with the School of Fine Arts reached the stage of material manifestation with ground breaking for the new building recently. Seven buildings have been razed to prepare an appropriate site for the structure, which it is hoped will become one of the principal art centres in the United States. The museum, which was designed by Mr. Egerton Swartwout, of New York, will have on the ground floor a sculpture gallery, a lecture room, class room and administrative offices the School of the Fine Arts. Between this floor and the gallery floor above is a mezzanine containing three clasa rooms and four offices, and the passage over the bridge to the old building. The second floor will contain 11 galleries for pictures, prints and accessions, and for the installation of the Arabella Huntington memorial and the Belgian room. Three galleries will house the Jarves Gallory of 120 Italian pictures, dating from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries, and th«i famous Turnbull collection. The. university hopes to have the building completed by next October. The Yale Art School now is being compelled to turn sway students who wish to take the courses! in painting and sculpture, because of the lack of room to give these courses in the present building.