Just a few days ago, the NBMAA purcahsed a full-scale, life-sized portrait of Emeline Arnold Souther (Mrs. Edmund Charles Tarbell.) Edmund Charles Tarbell painted this masterpiece early on in their relationship, in fact it was painted in the year they were married (1888) right before he became a teacher for several decades at the Boston Museum School. [...]
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A Life-Sized Testament to Love
Posted in Collection Highlights, Impressionism, New Acquisition, Press Releases, tagged Edmund Charles Tarbell, Eiffel Tower, Exposition Universelle 1889, Frank Benson, Impressionism, New Britain Museum of American Art, Paris, Storming of the Bastille, World's Fair 1889 on April 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Last Man to Paint The First President
Posted in Appropriation & Inspiration, Collection Highlights, New Acquisition, Press Releases, tagged Charles Willson Peale, Collection Highlights, Dr. Timothy McLaughlin, George Washington, Gilbert Stuart, New Britain Museum of American Art, Permanent Collection, Portraiture, Rembrandt Peale, Thomas Jefferson on March 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Rembrandt Peale is known for his portraits of George Washington, one of which the New Britain Museum of American Art is delighted to have as a new acquisition this Presidents month. Rembrandt Peale is supposedly the last artist for whom Washington sat shortly preceding his death. Born in 1778 in Pennsylvania to the famous painter [...]
200 Years of Women Artists
Posted in Collection Highlights, Contemporary Art, Current Exhibitions, Exhibition Tours, Exhibitions, Installation Art, Press Releases on December 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On Dec. 18 the New Britain Museum of American Art will open WomenArtists@NewBritainMuseum, a comprehensive exhibition of women artists represented in the permanent collection. This is a first in the Museum’s history and a landmark show that sets it among a group of major international museums—the Musée National d’Art Moderne at the Centre Pompidou in [...]
Kwabena Slaughter: Breaking Photographic Traditions with Unbroken Photos
Posted in Current Exhibitions, Exhibitions, New/Now, Press Releases, tagged Contemporary Art, Current Exhibitions, Exhibitions, Kwabena Slaughter, New/Now, Photography on February 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The photography-based work of NEW/NOW artist Kwabena Slaughter is currently featured in the New Britain Museum of American Art’s Cheney Gallery from Jan. 29 to April 25, 2010. Popular photographic images bear a strong visual similarity with western painting; Slaughter deconstructs this notion of photography, as well as the structure of the camera, by utilizing [...]
Inspired Innovations: A Celebration of Shaker Ingenuity
Posted in Current Exhibitions, Exhibitions, Press Releases, tagged Current Exhibitions, Decorative Arts, Exhibitions, Furniture, Shakers on February 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Inspired Innovations: A Celebration of Shaker Ingenuity is currently on view in the McKernan Gallery showcasing beautifully hand-crafted furniture, inventions and artifacts from the Shaker community. Curated by West Hartford, Connecticut Shaker scholar and collector M. Stephen Miller, Inspired Innovations seeks to raise awareness about the Shakers, who have successfully faced more than 220 years of [...]
Major Installation by Artist Lisa Hoke
Posted in Current Exhibitions, Exhibitions, Installation Art, Press Releases, tagged Current Exhibitions, Exhibitions, Installation, LeWitt Staircase, Lisa Hoke, Press Release on February 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Following a national competition for the honor, artist Lisa Hoke of New York City was commissioned to create a new installation for the NBMAA at the top of the LeWitt Staircase leading from the first to second floor of the Museum.
John Haberle: American Master of Illusion
Posted in Current Exhibitions, Exhibitions, Press Releases, tagged Current Exhibitions, Exhibitions, John Haberle, Press Release, Trompe L'oeil on February 3, 2010 | 4 Comments »
The trompe l’oeil (fool the eye) still-life paintings of American artist John Haberle (1856-1933) will be featured in the New Britain Museum of American Art’s exhibition John Haberle: American Master of Illusion, scheduled for Dec. 11, 2009 through Mar. 14, 2010 Torn-In-Transit, 1890-95. John Haberle (1856-1933). Oil on Canvas, 13.5 x 17 in. Brandywine River [...]
The Best of Benton: Highlights from the UConn Museum Come to the NBMAA
Posted in Current Exhibitions, Exhibitions, Press Releases, tagged Benton Museum, Current Exhibitions, Exhibitions, Press Release on February 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The William Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, has placed on long term loan to the New Britain Museum of American Art 30 masterpieces by American artists from the early 19th century to the present. These paintings, which are seldom seen at Storrs because of lack of gallery space, include such [...]
Seven Masterworks from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Come to New Britain
Posted in Current Exhibitions, Exhibitions, Hudson River School, Press Releases, tagged Asher Brown Durand, Current Exhibitions, Exhibitions, Frederic Church, Hudson River School, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Press Release on February 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Large-scale and dynamic describe the selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s American collections that will be on view at the New Britain Museum of American Art for a year and a half in an exhibition entitled Hudson River Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “I believe you will be astonished by their beauty [...]
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