This exhibition is intended to spark a dialogue about contemporary painting and its ties to historic and global artistic traditions.” This project, which involves asking artists from all over the country to create new works of art inspired by Edward Hopper and the places he painted, is exactly in line with our mission to inspire artists and exhibit art that is connected to our region. Sunda...

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In and Out of the Studio - This exhibition will present one hundred years of portrait photography in West Africa through nearly eighty photographs taken between the 1870s and the 1970s. These works, many of which are being shown for the first time.  The installation seeks to expand our understanding of West African portrait photography by rendering the broad variety of these practices and aesthet...

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The exhibition includes a broad selection of Lynch Fragments, a series that continues through the 50 years of his work.  While the early examples draw from American history (from civil rights to Vietnam), many of his later Lynch Fragments reflect his experiences of traveling in Africa and working with African metalsmiths and artists. Major large-scale sculptures of the 1960s, such as Chaino, ...

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This exhibition features over forty of Hart’s watercolors, drawings, and prints of daily life and rural landscapes.  Hart journeyed extensively about the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, Tahiti and Samoa. The everyday life of local residents fascinated Hart and he was prolific at sketching what he observed—from market vendors to women washing laundry to fiestas. The museum is ...

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This exhibition will demonstrate the ways French artists relied on this tradition while modernizing the artistic nude during the nineteenth century.  The exhibition will feature nineteenth-century prints, drawings and photographs that reveal the attentive study that resulted in radical changes to the depiction of the nude in French art. The museum is closed Mondays, major holidays, and in Au...

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This exhibition was curated in its entirety by the students in the University of Connecticut, under the direction of Professor Françoise Dussart. Dotted Dialogues features contemporary paintings and sculptures from Aboriginal communities in Central Australia. In the early 1980s, new governmental policies encouraged Indigenous communities to partake in various initiatives meant to counteract...

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This exhibition and its accompanying publication will provide the first comprehensive and critical overview of Associated American Artists (AAA), the commercial enterprise best known as the publisher of prints by Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, and Grant Wood. The exhibition will address not only AAA’s storied involvement in the popularity of American prints in the 1930s, but its ong...

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This exhibition examines for the first time from an interdisciplinary perspective La Farge’s lifelong efforts to visualize the sacred. Demonstrating how the artist’s quest was manifest in representations of religious figures, nature, and still life as well as in stunningly imaginative book illustrations of romantic fantasy, The Recovery of the Sacred also explores how La Farge’s ...

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Rarely displayed landscapes to be included in this exhibition. The Ogunquit Museum of American Art boasts one of the most diverse art collections in the state of Maine, and has chosen its best and boldest for this exhibit. Museum is open - May 1 through October 31

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The exhibition examines Kent’s screenprints as well as her 1971 bold “rainbow swash” design for the Boston Gas tank claiming it as the city's own pop art monument. More than 60 of Kent’s prints appear alongside about the same number of works by her prominent contemporaries. The exhibition also expands the current scholarship on Kent’s art, elevating the role of he...

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