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Florence Griswold Museum - Old Lyme
Known as the home of American Impressionism with one of the foremost collections of Impressionism in America. Riverfront gallery includes major works by Childe Hassam, John Henry Twachtman and Willard Metcalf. Recently renovated boardinghouse surrounded by landscaped gardens was once home of the Lyme Art Colony, where noted names in American Impressionism created some of their best works. [Mystic Country]
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Greenwich Historical Society/Bush-Holley Historic Site - Cos Cob/Greenwich
Bush-Holley House is the centerpiece of the Greenwich Historical Society's site on Cos Cob Harbor in Greenwich. A unique presentation provides visitors with two distinct time periods -- the New Nation (1790-1825) and the Cos Cob Art Colony (1890-1920). Eight evocative, well-documented rooms within the house feature art, furnishings and objects from these two periods, while the historic buildings, landscape and gardens evoke the turn of the twentieth century when Cos Cob became an art colony and cradle of American Impressionism. The Storehouse museum gallery features changing exhibitions. [Fairfield County]
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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
Refreshed installations and new exhibitions are made accessible to people with disabilities through the construction of a new Atrium. The Slater Museum's collection includes fine and decorative art representing 350 years of Norwich history; 20th century Connecticut paintings and sculpture; African art; Asian and Islamic objects; a plaster cast collection of ancient monumental sculpture and Around the World on the Yacht Eleanor: The Slaters' Grand Tour, about the founder's 1894 17-month voyage. The Converse Art Gallery presents changing temporary exhibitions.
[Mystic Country]
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The Bellarmine Museum of Art - Fairfield
The Bellarmine Museum of Art opened in Fairfield University’s signature Tudor and Gothic
style Bellarmine Hall on October 25, 2010. Collections at the
Bellarmine include painting, sculpture and decorative art objects, including
ten paintings by master Italian Renaissance and Baroque painters gifted to the
University by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation via Bridgeport’s Discovery Museum.
The Bellarmine Museum of Art also maintains many historic plaster casts of
important works from ancient Greece and Rome, including eight donated by the
Acropolis Museum in Athens, as well as many non-Western art objects. Currently,
the Museum also holds twenty objects on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of
Art/The Cloisters Museum.
The Bellarmine Museum of Art mounts four temporary exhibitions each
year. These shows, which embrace a wide range of subjects and disciplines, are
intended to enhance the museum’s permanent collection by examining cultural
artifacts from a multitude of viewpoints and perspectives.
[Fairfield County]
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Weir Farm National Historic Site - Wilton
Weir Farm National Historic Site was home to three generations of American artists. Julian Alden Weir, a leading figure in American art and the development of American Impressionism, acquired the farm in 1882. After Weir, the artistic legacy was continued by his daughter, painter Dorothy Weir Young and her husband, sculptor Mahonri Young, followed by New England painters Sperry and Doris Andrews. Today, the 60-acre farm, which includes the Weir House, Weir and Young Studios, barns, gardens, and Weir Pond, is one of the nation's finest remaining landscapes of American art. Ranger programs are offered year-round, with Junior Ranger activities available for children. Art supplies are provided free of charge during visitor center hours through the Take Part in Art program. Weir Farm National Historic Site is located in both Wilton & Ridgefield, about 60 miles from New York City and ten minutes from the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. [Fairfield County]
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Yale Center for British Art - New Haven
Presented to the university by Paul Mellon (Class of 1929)‚ the Yale Center for British Art houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of British art outside the United Kingdom, exhibited in a striking building designed by American architect Louis I. Kahn. The collection of paintings‚ sculpture‚ drawings‚ prints‚ rare books‚ and manuscripts reflects the development of British art‚ life‚ and thought from the Elizabethan period onward. The Center offers a year-round schedule of exhibitions and educational programs‚ including films‚ concerts‚ lectures‚ tours‚ and special events. The Yale University Art Gallery, also designed by architect Louis Kahn, is located across the street. [Greater New Haven]
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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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