Collections Research
Explore select works from our collection through the scholarship of art historians, curators, staff, and students affiliated with the museum. These texts generate new appreciation for objects in the collection by analyzing artistic processes, expanding historical context, and interrogating traditional curatorial practices, among other approaches.
New light on the group portrait of Elihu Yale, his family, and an enslaved child
The Elihu Yale Portrait Research team analyzes, questions, and provides historical context for an eighteenth-century painting on display, and explains why it was replaced by Titus Kaphar’s "Enough About You" (2016) from October 2020 through May 2021.