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HARTFORD, CT (PNAN) – Scheduled to close Sunday, October 22, 2023 at the Wadsworth Museum of Art is an exhibition of Thomas Day (1801-1861) works that highlights an 1855 wooden…
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Little-known portrait joins show
HARTFORD, CT (PNAN) – A portrait by Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, 1908-2001), Portrait of Mrs. Cooley, explores a crucial phase of the artist’s career. The painting joins two related…
Series is ‘on-the-road’ in museum
HARTFORD, CT (PNAN) – Viewing now at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art through February 28, 2023, “Girl Pictures 1997-2002” has been noted as the most celebrated series body of…
Innovators to bring life to Wadsworth
HARTFORD, CT (PNAN) – Over 50 contemporary glass artists breathe new life into nature’s most volatile medium in Fired Up: Glass Today, opening at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art…
Colorist roots are deep in Hartford society
HARTFORD, CT (PNAN) – Going on view at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art on Saturday, March 5, works by Milton Avery, who is considered one of North America’s greatest…
Monroe is the as Krieble Curator
HARTFORD, CT (PNAN) – Erin Monroe has been selected as Krieble Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture for the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Since 2007, Monroe has served in…
Furniture has ‘geometric soul’
Going on view, Wednesday, November 20, 2019 through January 12, 2020 at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, “The Mathematics of Elegance: An Icon of Early Connecticut…
Antonakos’ work a new holding
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut has acquired the Untitled Neon Canvas art by Stephen Antonakos (for Michael Krichman), 1986, from Stephen Antonakos Studio. The seven-foot-high abstract…
Masterpiece and rare works on view
Giorgione’s startling allegory “La Vecchia” (known as The Old Woman) is at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut to August 4, 2019. In conjunction with the Cincinnati…
Van Gogh work is real
After nearly 30 years of doubt, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art’s painting, “Vase with Poppies”(c. 1886) by Vincent Van Gogh, has been fully authenticated by specialists at the Van…
Abstract works to come ashore
Opening on Saturday, February 23 at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut and remaining on view through May 19, 2019, “Sean Scully: Landline” exhibition marks the…
Legends’ works on view
The first of two presentations of American works on paper is on view at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, “American Moderns in Watercolor: Edward Hopper…
Artist defies classification
HARTFORD, CONN – (PNAN) – The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art will present “Gorey’s Worlds,” the first museum exhibition to contextualize the work of celebrated American author and illustrator Edward…
Two masterpieces join in show
HARTFORD, CT – (PNAN) – Two monumental scroll paintings by Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806) will be reunited for the first time in more than 130 years at the…
CT: Hartford
WHERE: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. WHEN: Opening Saturday, September 10 and on view through December 11, 2016. The Thrill of the Chase: The Wagstaff Collection of Photographs at the…
East Coast museum adds to collection
New works of art by major artists, a 17th-century Dutch landscape by Salomon Jacobsz van Ruysdael and a portrait by contemporary American artist Kehinde Wiley, were acquired by the Wadsworth…
New Director of Education chosen
Anne Butler Rice became the new Georgette Auerbach Koopman Director of Education at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, located in Hartford, Connecticut. In her new post, Rice will oversee…
A show of porcelain works
Opening Saturday, January 2016, a new exhibition, “Miniature World in White Gold: Meissen Porcelain by Johann Joachim Kaendler” will explore the important career of this innovative porcelain modeler at the…
CT: Hartford
WHERE: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. WHEN: On view through January 24, 2016. “Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dolls” BRIEF ABOUT: First major exhibition to pair the work of artists…