Now Eighth Largest Museum in U . S ., Collection Ranges from Ancients to Contemporary Art Richard Friswell Any tour of the newly expanded and renovated Yale University Art Gallery , in New Haven Connecticut , has visitors treading on a little-noticed engraved slate marker inlaid in the stone floor of the Greco-Roman Ancient Arts gallery . Cool winter light slants into the space from nearby Chapel Street , illuminating the inscription : "Col . JOHN TRUMBULL , Patriot and Artist , Friend and Aid ( sic ) of WASHINGTON , lies beside his wife beneath this GALLERY OF ART . Lebanon 1756 – New York 1843 . " Look on the reverse of any American two-dollar bill and you will see a representation of Trumbull's famous 1817 masterpiece , The Declaration of Independence . Large-scale versions of several pieces from Trumbull's Revolutionary War series found their way into Bullfinch-designed niches in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington , D . C . a decade later . But the smaller studies were eventually do...
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