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These pen and watercolor illustrations were created with children underfoot (and as critics) but are collected by adults. Penny utilizes the city as a tool, including its triple-deckers, spacesuits, buildings, streets and parks. Goodnight Worcester, Revisited is an invitation for young and old to enjoy a fresh perspective on the heart of the Commonwealth.

You can find wonderful things at our Fairs. If you are looking for the unusual then these are the places to go to. Our dealers work hard to offer you a wide choice of items that you won't find on the High Street. The quality of many antique, vintage or retro items is often much higher than what is new today and prices can be much cheaper than modern equivalents. Best of all, it's 'Fun at our Fairs...

October 7, 2015 - June 19, 2016 - This exhibition is an extraordinary loan from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, this work represents Pierre Bonnard's dining room, along with his wife and cats, at his country house in Vernonnet, a small town outside of Paris on the Seine River. Rather than painting from life, Bonnard created the work entirely from memory, foregrounding his subjective responses o...

2D & 3D artwork with a broad interpretation of "Landscape," including physical, spiritual, cultural, and ecological. The artwork is created in many different media—drawing, painting, mixed media, photography and more.

Janet Schwartz’s pastels, oil paintings, and charcoal drawings capture the complex visual landscapes of office life and long commutes. Open to magic in all places, she finds beauty in the stark angularity and patterns of light on building façades, rendering the shadows of conference rooms, office cubicles, and gray corridors with a particular eye to the elongated late afternoon light. These images...

The exhibition features an array of paintings and furniture, many on display for the first time, with a particular emphasis on portraits of children, which illustrate the folk artists' unique approach to using color and towards the figurative treatment of their subjects. Explore the rich folk art tradition that flourished in the mid-19th-century in more than 40 works from an important private coll...

This exhibition centering on a major conservation treatment by former Mellon Fellow Matthew Cushman, this Idea Lab presentation looks at a portrait of an unknown Antwerp man, painted by Anthony Van Dyck very early in the artist's career, just after his departure from Rubens's studio. Scientific research and the cleaning have revealed Van Dyck's process, including numerous changes to the costume, t...

This exhibition is one of the greatest Renaissance paintings in America, will come to Worcester for a special, focused installation. Painted at the moment when Raphael made the transition from Urbino to Florence, this work stands at the beginning of the highly influential Madonnas which secured his reputation. Raphael's work will be paired with Worcester's Northbrook Madonna, a work that came into...

This exhibiton presents the work of three photographers, Marcus Bleasdale, Robin Hammond and Andre Lambertson, because of their deep understanding and sensitivity to these issues. Their images tell the stories of former child soldiers—of haunted pasts and of hope for the future. Boys and girls from more than 20 countries are recruited or abducted into armies where they serve as messengers, spies, ...

This exhibiton is a very early work by Rembrandt, from a series of allegories of the five senses, is on view in the remastered galleries, on loan from one of the greatest private collections of Dutch Golden Age paintings in the world. While certainly the work of a young artist, yet to find his mature voice, this small painting nonetheless reveal many of the distinctive hallmarks of Rembrandt. A lu...