| The inventor, Eli Whitney, and the painter, John Trumbull, were contemporaries. By 1825, Whitney’s Armory had begun to shape America’s economic future. In 1831, a collection of Trumbull’s miniatures established the Yale Art Gallery…which would chronicle America’s cultural future. |
| Jock Reynolds is a creative artist and arts administrator. His photographs, installations and performances, often collaborations with his wife, Susan Hellmuth, have been exhibited in both public and private collections in Europe, Japan, Australia and the United States. He directed the Washington Project for the Arts (a regional artists’ resource gallery) and New Langdon Arts, an alternative artists’ space in San Francisco. Since 1998, Mr. Reynolds has directed the Yale University Art Gallery, the oldest university art gallery in the western hemisphere. His tenure at Yale has overseen the most substantial transformation of the Museum’s facilities in that long history. |
