" A few years earlier, finding himself “without ready means of support,” Trumbull had offered to give Yale his collection of his work, if Yale would grant him an annual income of $1,000 for the rest of his life. Silliman then succeeded in raising the money to build a Trumbull gallery on campus designed by Trumbull, the first art gallery on any campus in the country. "

― David McCullough , The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West