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New Britain Museum of American Art
Address: 56 Lexington St, New Britain, CT
Phone: 860.229.0257
Email: nbmaa@nbmaa.org
Web: www.nbmaa.org
The permanent collection traces the history of American art from the Colonial era to the present, including portraits by Copley, Stuart, and Sargent; landscapes by Cole, Church, and Homer; 20th-century works by O’Keeffe and Wyeth; and The Arts of Life in America, a five-panel mural by Thomas Hart Benton. Open on Tues, Wed, and Fri from 11 am to 5 pm, on Thurs until 8 pm, on Sat from 10 am to 5 pm, and on Sun from noon to 5 pm. Weekly schedule listed below. Watercolor with June Webster every Tuesday beginning June 16. Admission $9, $8 for seniors, $7 for students, free for children under 12. Admission before noon on Sat free for all. Open free to all fathers on Father's Day.
UPCOMING EVENTS
JUNE 12 Opening Reception:
The Christopher Hyland Photography Collection, by Way of These Eyes: The Sublime, Exotic and Familiar 5 to 7 pm
JUNE 14Sunday Music Series: Paul Bisaccia, 3 to 4:30 pm
JUNE 18 Studio@4: Suzy Jorsey-Balay, 4 to 5:30 pm
JUNE 19 Juneteenth Celebration, 7 to 11 pm
JUNE 25 Film: Landscapes through Time Part III, 1pm and 4 pm
JULY 1 THROUGH 3 Art Adventure with Karen Rossi, 9:30 am to noon
JULY 6 Life Figure Drawing w/ Jim DeCesare, 1 to 5 pm
JULY 10 Art Happy Hour: David Davison "Connecticut's Vanishing Landscape: A Look back at Eric Sloane and the Back to the Land Movement," 6 pm
JULY 11 Opening Reception: Contemporary Glass: Chihuly and Beyond Remarks, 6 pm
JULY 13 Concert Series: Janice Nimetz: Shumann as Critic, Composer, and Friend," 3 to 4 pm
JULY 17 Conversation with Contemporary Artist Josh Simpson, To Infinity and Beyond, 6 to 7:30 pm
JULY 19 Lecture: "William Trost Richards" by Fred Biamonte, 1 to 2 pm
AUG 5 THROUGH 7 ArtAdventure with Suzy Balay, 9:30 am to noon
AUG 8 Museum After Dark Party, 8 to 11 pm
AUG 10 Concert Series: Mariachi Band, 3 to 4 pm
AUG 12 THROUGH 14 ArtAdventure with Craig Norton, 9:30 am to noon
AUG 14 Art Happy Hour: Opening Reception Sam McKinnis, 6 pm
AUG 28 Defying Gravity by Josh Simpson, 1 to 2 pm
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Address: 600 Main St, Hartford, CT
Phone: 860.278.2670
Email: info@wadsworthatheneum.org
Among the 45,000 pieces in the permanent collection are Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces, European paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries, American decorative art (featuring the Wallace Nutting collection of 17th- and 18th-century furniture), and the Amistad Foundation’s collection of more than 7000 items documenting African-American history and culture. Open Wed through Sat from 11 am to 5 pm, and Sun from 10 am to 5 pm. Admission $10, $8 for seniors, $5 for children ages 13 and up and college students with ID, free for children 12 and under. Open every first Thurs of the month from 11 am to 5 pm for $5.
Yale Center for British Art
Address: 1080 Chapel St, New Haven, CT
Phone: 203.432.2800
Email: ycba.info@yale.edu
Web: www.yale.edu/ycba
The Yale Center for British Art is home to the most comprehensive collection of British art outside (where else?) Great Britain. The collection surveys the development of British art, life, and thought from the Elizabethan period to the present. Open Tues through Sat from 10 am to 5 pm, and on Sun from noon to 5 pm. Free.
UPCOMING EVENTS
JUNE 10 Lecture: The Artist in Exile: Jules Dalou in London, 5:30 pm
JUNE 11 Exhibition Tour:
Paintings from the Reign of Victoria: The Royal Holloway Collection, London, 11 am
JUNE 13 Exhibition Tour:
Seascapes: Paintings and Watercolors from the U Collection, noon
JUNE 14 Exhibition Tour:
Paintings from the Reign of Victoria: The Royal Holloway Collection, London, 2 pm
JUNE 16 Art in Context:
Picturing Power: Controversial Victorian Paintings in the Royal Holloway Collection, 12:30 pm
JUNE 18 Exhibition Tour:
Dalou in England: Portraits of Womanhood, 1871-1879, 11 am
JUNE 19 Artists, Diplomats, and Other Actors on the Global Stage, 5:30 pm
JUNE 20 Exhibition Tour,
Seascapes: Paintings and Watercolors from the U Collection, noon
JUNE 21 Exhibition Tour:
Dalou in England: Portraits of Womanhood, 1871-1879, 2 pm
JUNE 23 Art in Context:
Drinking in London: Gavarnis Sherry Cobbler and Other Local Attractions, 12:30 pm
JUNE 23 Lecture: A Conversation with Mark Morris and Joan Acocella, 5:30 pm
JUNE 24 A Conversation with Katy Marton, 5:30 pm
JUNE 25 Art in Context: "This strange and awful grave: The curious career of Landseer's Man Proposes," 12:30 pm
JUNE 27 Exhibition Tour:
Paintings from the Reign of Victoria: The Royal Holloway Collection, London, 12:15 pm
JUNE 28 Exhibition Tour:
Dalou in England: Portraits of Womanhood, 1871-1879, 2 pm
JULY 2 Exhibition Tour:
Seascapes: Paintings and Watercolors from the U Collection, 11 am
JULY 6 THROUGH 10 Animating Art! Level II, 10 am to 3 pm
JULY 11 Exhibition Tour:
Seascapes: Paintings and Watercolors from the U Collection, noon
JULY 16 Exhibition Tour:
Dalou in England: Portraits of Womanhood, 1871-1879, 11 am
JULY 16 Exhibition Tour:
Paintings from the Reign of Victoria: The Royal Holloway Collection, London, noon
JULY 23 Exhibition Tour:
Paintings from the Reign of Victoria: The Royal Holloway Collection, London, 11 am
JULY 25 Exhibition Tour:
Dalou in England: Portraits of Womanhood, 1871-1879, noon
JULY 26 Exhibition Tour:
Paintings from the Reign of Victoria: The Royal Holloway Collection, London, 2 pm
Yale University Art Gallery
Address: 1111 Chapel St, New Haven, CT
Phone: 203.432.0600
Email: artgalleryinfo@yale.edu
This so-called gallery is actually the oldest college art museum in the Western hemisphere. It features paintings by van Gogh, Picasso, Eakins, and other masters. The permanent collection of 185,000 works also includes prints, drawings, American decorative arts, photographs, and art from Africa, Asia, and the ancient Americas. Open Tues through Sat from 10 am to 5 pm, Thurs until 8 pm, and on Sun from 1 to 6 pm. Free.
