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Hill-Stead Museum - Farmington
Hill-Stead is noted for its 1901 33,000-square-foot house filled with art and antiques. Pioneering female architect Theodate Pope Riddle designed the Colonial Revival-style house, set on 152 hilltop acres, to showcase the Impressionist masterpieces amassed by her father, Cleveland iron industrialist Alfred A. Pope. Collections in 19 intact rooms include original furnishings, paintings by Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, James M. Whistler and Mary Cassatt, as well as numerous works on paper and Japanese woodblock prints. Stately trees, seasonal gardens, over three miles of stone walls and woodland trails accent the grounds. A centerpiece of the property is the c. 1920 sunken garden designed by landscape architect Beatrix Jones Farrand, today the site of the acclaimed summerlong Sunken Garden Poetry and Music Festival. [River Valley]
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Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich Free Academy Campus - Norwich
The Museum is currently CLOSED for construction. Some galleries will open in early 2011. Please visit our website for the most up-to-date details.
The collection includes American fine and decorative art representing 350 years of Norwich history; 20th century Connecticut paintings and sculpture; African and Oceanic sculpture; Native American objects; a plaster cast collection of ancient monumental sculpture and a changing gallery of contemporary art.
[Mystic Country]
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The William Benton Museum of Art, University of CT - Mansfield/Storrs
The state art museum on the University of Connecticut Storrs campus presents a variety of changing exhibitions, drawing on the museum's collections of art from the 15th to 21st centuries and mounting traveling exhibitions and faculty and MFA installations. The Store at the Benton. The Beanery coffee shop.
[Mystic Country]
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Yale University Art Gallery - New Haven
The Yale University Art Gallery is a fine-arts museum for the community, presenting works of art from ancient times to the present day -- and open year-round free of charge. One of the oldest college art museums in the world, the Gallery was founded in 1832 when artist-patriot John Trumbull gave over one hundred of his paintings to Yale College. Trumbull’s original paintings of the American Revolution are now joined by a collection of objects from around the world. Permanent-collection galleries showcase artworks from twentieth-century Africa, portraits from ancient Greece, Chinese paintings from the Tang dynasty, Renaissance drawings, modernist sculpture and masterworks of American painting and decorative arts, to name a few. The Gallery’s main building, designed by American architect Louis Kahn, is a masterpiece of modern architecture and design. It has recently undergone a comprehensive renovation, which marks the beginning of a complete renovation of all three of the Gallery’s buildings, increasing both exhibition space and teaching facilities. The Gallery is located across Chapel Street from the Yale Center for British Art, designed by Kahn in 1974, and the last of his buildings on which construction was begun during his lifetime. [Greater New Haven]
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