This exhibit showcases one of the museum’s newest additions—a collection of drawings by Italian, Dutch and French artists of the 17th and 18th centuries recently donated by a local collector. These sketches, generally made as studies for oil paintings or theatrical sets, show the fine line between fine art and commercial art that most artists of the period walked. Sunday: 1 pm &m...

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The exhibition celebrates five decades of the O’Neill, charting its journey from past to present to future with drawings, interviews, videos, photographs, original scripts, and sound.  Since its founding, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center has shaped the course of American and world theater, launching the careers of some of the most talented artists and most recognizable plays and ...

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The exhibit invites visitors to try their hand at drawing, sketching either a companion’s portrait or a self-portrait with the aid of a mirror. Works in the exhibit will range from 16th century Italian and Flemish paintings to modern American photographic portraits and will include paintings by 18th and 19th century southeastern Connecticut portraitists Mary Way and Isaac Sheffield. Sunday:...

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The exhibition in this series is inspired by a gift of calligraphy by Zhang Zhibang, in the Winter of 1992, “Year of the Monkey” while visiting his son Christopher Z.Y. Zhang who is from Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. Artworks selected for this exhibition represent a diversity of artists that painted and worked in New London and the surrounding areas – many in a...

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The exhibition in this series is inspired by the title of a painting by Mathias Marrum who was born in the Federal Republic of Germany (former West Germany) but arrived to the Griffis Art Center from Mojacar, Almeria, and Kingdom of Spain. Color and emotion were the foremost influences in the selection of artwork for this exhibition: with a choice of work by artists from over forty-five count...

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The exhibition brings together paintings on loan from private collections, museums and galleries in two compelling presentations of new works by an artist Kotik has called “lyrical and meditative.” Real Art Ways, in Hartford, will present a complementary assemblage of Enders’ work during the same time period and all of the works shown at both venues will be illustrated in one cat...

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The exhibit considers the unique inspiration that American Impressionists drew from the eastern Connecticut landscape. Bringing together for the first time more than forty works from museums and private collections across the country. A Good Summer’s Work focuses on paintings created in eastern Connecticut by Weir and others in his circle, including Childe Hassam, Emil Carlsen and John Singe...

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