‘TELLING A LARGER STORY’ AT YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY

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NEW HAVEN, CONN. — The Yale University Art Gallery presents the exhibition “Telling a Larger Story: Collecting Miniatures for a New Century,” on view through January 13 on the third floor.

Like the miniatures shown in “Art for Yale,” this additional selection highlights the heyday of this art form in early America. Painted in watercolor on ivory and sometimes framed to be worn as jewelry, these small portraits or tiny scenes of romance or mourning often served as a way to hold onto absent loved ones.

Each keepsake is a significant work of art in its own right; together they help to tell the story of miniature painting in America, and the larger tale of the miniature’s unique role in social history.

Robin Jaffee Frank, the Alice and Allan Kaplan Senior Associate Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, organized the exhibition.

Yale University Art Gallery is at the corner of Chapel and York Streets. For information, www.artgallery.yale.edu or 203-432-0600.