February 6 - August 14, 2016 - This exhibition explores these difficult and lingering early life memories, fantasies, and nightmares in works that address issues such as loneliness, bullying, racism, poverty, violence, and war. Making reference to childhood, much of the art contains cartoons, dolls, toys, coloring books, the alphabet, school photographs, and TV shows. Drawn entirely from the Wadsw...

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February 12 - May 29, 2016 - The over 80 objects on view in Ten/Forty are the account of how a local historic house, loved by visitors, members, and the community alike, becomes, through thoughtful stewardship by trustees and staff, a leading regional museum of American art. Many of the stories behind the paintings, works on paper, photos, and artifacts tell of deeply pers...

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February 12 - July 3, 2016 - This special exhibition brings together major works from the collection by modern artists including Jean (Hans) Arp, Marcel Duchamp, George Grosz, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, and Beatrice Wood. In 1916 a group of young men and women from across Europe came together in Zurich and shook the foundations of the art world. The exhibition i...

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February 14 - May 29, 2016 - This exhibition will feature a unique selection of 19th century wedding dresses and wedding-related accessories drawn from the museum’s collection. The tradition of a white wedding dress is credited to Britain’s Queen Victoria when she chose this color for her marriage to Prince Albert in 1840. Historically the wedding dress was not always white. Dress...

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The exhibition will examine how European fashion from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque eras influenced and inspired new styles created between 1810 and 1860.  Gothic to Goth: Romantic Era Fashion and Its Legacy will be the first exhibition to fully explore the Romantic Era as a formative period in costume history. Presenting historic garments alongside literary works, paintings, pri...

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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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Freshen up your home and collection at the 47th annual Guilford Antiques Show in Connecticut, benefitting the Hyland House Museum. A bright show to awaken your inner collector or decorator, you’ll find much to get you started. From folk art to furniture, books, decoys, quilts, samplers, stoneware, clocks, Oriental rugs, nautical antiques and art, fireplace accessories, paintings and decorati...

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This exhibition features selected photos from the book published to mark that anniversary. In his photographs, Abranowicz has captured the profound beauty and myriad faces of this primeval forest in our midst. Only forty miles from New York City, the Mianus River Gorge is a 1000-acre island of forest and fields in suburban Westchester and Fairfield Counties, a rare, surviving remnant of this orig...

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This 36th annual conference is the finest Ephemera Fair in the country, featuring incomparable material and exceptional dealers. Accented with an auction, a banquet, and a book signing, it will be a feast for the mind and heart. Collectors, dealers, academics, students, and even youngsters, will be treated to a wealth of scholarship and ephemera. Concurrent with the 2016 presidential electio...

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Portrayed as "an American treasure trove" the show features pre-1840 American furniture and appropriate accessories with some of the country's finest and most respected antique dealers. Sun. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission:$15 (good for both days). Handicap accessible:Yes Event held at the State Armory

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