New Britain Museum of American Art
New Britain Museum of American Art
New Britain Museum of American Art
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HappyWanderer1492
North Kingstown, Rhode Island102 مساهمة
زوجان • أكتوبر 2022
Connecticut has some wonderful museums. The collection at Yale and the Wadsworth Atheneum come to mind. But this museum exceeded all expectations. The collection extends from the Colonial period to the present. It is housed in a fabulous new building which allows for great natural light and places to sit and reflect. It’s worth a detour from anywhere.
كُتب بتاريخ 23 أكتوبر 2022
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jfadds
Naperville, إلينوي4,777 مساهمة
زوجان • يونيو 2022
Who would expect a world class museum to be in a spot like New Britain. Well it’s there all right.
Easy free parking across the street from the front door.
The incredible Thomas Hart Benton mural alone is worth the trip . Created during the depression- it is a masterwork of American art.
We also loved examples from their pulp fiction collection- the largest in the country.
Do come for a visit-well worth the trip
Easy free parking across the street from the front door.
The incredible Thomas Hart Benton mural alone is worth the trip . Created during the depression- it is a masterwork of American art.
We also loved examples from their pulp fiction collection- the largest in the country.
Do come for a visit-well worth the trip
كُتب بتاريخ 12 يونيو 2022
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Maura M
مدينة نيويورك, نيويورك61 مساهمة
الأصدقاء • أبريل 2022
The collection is wonderful. American art from the 1800s that reflects our heritage. The staff was very friendly and helpful. There was a special exhibit of the Hudson River School. I will go back.
كُتب بتاريخ 16 أبريل 2022
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kzsull01
Windsor, كونيكتيكت362 مساهمة
فبراير 2022
My husband and I visited the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, Connecticut on Tuesday, February 1st, 2022. We have been at this museum multiple times and have always enjoyed it because it has a very nice mixture of a wide variety of different types of artwork, in both its Permanent Collection and Special Exhibits.
This write-up provides details on the Special Exhibits with an emphasis on the current Hudson River School Special Exhibit, followed by some General Information About the Museum and then information on the Permanent Collection.
Special Exhibit: ‘Poetry of Nature: Hudson River School Landscapes from the New-York Historical Society’.
This time we really enjoyed this Special Exhibit with paintings from 1818 – 1886. This is an excellent exhibit that helps you understand the significance of landscape imagery as a powerful narrative device that played a crucial role in the construction of America’s national and cultural identity. There are many different landscape paintings by a variety of artists of varied terrains, with fields, streams, lakes, rivers, trees, wooded forests, rolling hills, dramatic waterfalls and mountains, and beautiful views of the Hudson River and New England coast. The exhibit includes beautiful scenes from the Catskills, Adirondacks, White Mountains (Mt. Chocorua), Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Niagara Falls, Lake George and New York Harbor among many other locations, including places abroad with Italian landscapes and ruins.
The paintings include idealized and iconic views of nature that conveyed the physical details of each landscape but also its atmosphere. Nature cycles are well illustrated in these paintings including the seasons, time of day, atmospheric effects and the masterful effects of light. The exhibit also nicely depicts how visual imagery impacted the way in which Americans considered landscape as part of the country’s cultural heritage, with many of the places being natural and manmade landmarks with scenic beauty, historical significance and demonstrations of national progress, that became parks or historic sites. The spiritual power of nature is also made evident from the paintings that are on display. The paintings speak powerfully to the Hudson River School’s poetic celebration of nature..
The exhibit is divided into sections with great overviews for each section that provide excellent historical context and connections to literature, and paintings illustrating the subject matter of the section with detailed write-ups describing them. It provides good background information on the Hudson River School approach, with painting landscapes outdoors, and its founders Thomas Cole who painted the heroic and wilderness sublime and Asher B. Durand who painted domestic or pastoral scenes. The sections on ‘Thomas Cole and Asher B. Durand Master and Mentor’ and ‘Durand’s Studies from Nature “Lessons of High and Holy Meaning”’ provide very good background information.
The section on ‘“Those Favored Regions”: The Classic Sketching Grounds of the Hudson River’ depicts the origin of the Hudson River at Lake Tear in the Clouds in the Adirondacks to New York Harbor with the surrounding region from New York City to Albany prominent in the literary, poetic and artistic imagination of the early nation. This region had a combination of picturesque, historic, and literary associations making it a tourist destination with its varied scenery, weather, and effects of light. ‘The American Seasons’ depicts the visual power and rich associations by images of nature’s cycles, seasons and different times of day in landscape paintings. There were also separate sections on ‘Word and Image: the Literature of Picturesque Touring’; ‘American Wilderness: The Adirondacks and the White Mountains’; ‘Hudson River Vernacular’; and “Those Favored Regions”: Artists Away: “Adventure is An Element in American Artist-Life’. All these sections are quite interesting, with ‘Hudson River Vernacular’ depicting artists who did not sketch their subjects from nature but depended upon popular landscape prints as models for their American Scenery.
In addition to the overviews in each section, the booklet that we got at the front admission desk nicely goes into detail about each of the sections described above. This exhibit very nicely complements and expands upon the museum’s own collection of 19th century landscape paintings in the Henry and Sharon Martin Gallery on the museum’s first floor. It is quite comprehensive, nicely laid out, well done, and definitely worth seeing.
Other Special Exhibits:
We also enjoyed the Walter Wick: I Spy’ illustrations on the first floor as well as the ‘The Origins of a Collection’ and ‘American Art in New Britain: The Evolution of the New Britain Art Museum’ which traces the museum’s rich history and unique identity as an American Art Institution in New Britain, including a nice timeline of important events. ‘Cowboys, Detectives and Daredevils: Pulp Art at the NBMAA’ has a nice collection of vibrant, eye-catching illustrations along with the magazines that they were published in by prominent 19th – 20th Century American illustrators on the second floor. ‘People and Places in American Art: 1960s to Today’ and ‘Modern and Contemporary Masterwork from the NBMAA: 1950s to Today’ are installations from the Permanent Collection that are both on the second floor and are also interesting to see.
General Information About the Museum:
All the artwork in this museum is nicely curated and all the write-ups throughout the museum are detailed and provide good background information, including good historical, cultural, social and political perspectives, depending upon what is applicable. The museum is definitely quite educational.
Our visit at the museum this time took about an hour and a half, due to the amount of time that we had available, but it could easily have taken over 2 hours to be able to absorb and appreciate all the artwork on display. Our primary focus was on the Hudson River School Special Exhibit during this visit.
The museum has convenient, ample free parking as well as a very nice gift shop. We recommend visiting this museum and we hope that you have the opportunity to enjoy it as much as we did.
Museum passes for free admission into this museum may be available through your local library. Also, currently the museum’s website states: Saturday admission from 10 a.m. to noon is free due to support from the American Savings Foundation.
Permanent Collection:
As always we enjoyed the wide variety of artwork in the Permanent Collections in the museum, which included American Art representing ‘Early American Painting, 18th -19th Centuries’ a nation in Transition (from 1800 – 1850) memorializing the American Revolution, Hudson River School Landscape Paintings, American Impressionism, Regionalism and Realism Art, as well as art from the Gilded Age. We particularly always enjoy the Impressionist Paintings and Hudson River School Landscape Paintings, which are always quite nice to see and nicely complement the paintings in the current Special Exhibit.
The room with Shaker furnishings and the multiple photographs on the wall of the Shaker Community/Village, in Enfield, Connecticut is nice to see, since Enfield is my hometown and most of the buildings in that Shaker Community have been demolished or have been repurposed for other uses. I particularly like the monumental case of twenty-two drawers and six cupboards, which came directly from the Laundry/Wash House of that Shaker Community. It is great that it is so nicely preserved after over 150 years and now built into the museum’s walls.
Note that this write-up does not address all the exhibits at the museum, but rather those that we particularly enjoyed during our visit or thought are interesting and unique. There is much more than what is mentioned here.
Again we recommend visiting this museum and we hope that you have the opportunity to enjoy it as much as we did.
This write-up provides details on the Special Exhibits with an emphasis on the current Hudson River School Special Exhibit, followed by some General Information About the Museum and then information on the Permanent Collection.
Special Exhibit: ‘Poetry of Nature: Hudson River School Landscapes from the New-York Historical Society’.
This time we really enjoyed this Special Exhibit with paintings from 1818 – 1886. This is an excellent exhibit that helps you understand the significance of landscape imagery as a powerful narrative device that played a crucial role in the construction of America’s national and cultural identity. There are many different landscape paintings by a variety of artists of varied terrains, with fields, streams, lakes, rivers, trees, wooded forests, rolling hills, dramatic waterfalls and mountains, and beautiful views of the Hudson River and New England coast. The exhibit includes beautiful scenes from the Catskills, Adirondacks, White Mountains (Mt. Chocorua), Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Niagara Falls, Lake George and New York Harbor among many other locations, including places abroad with Italian landscapes and ruins.
The paintings include idealized and iconic views of nature that conveyed the physical details of each landscape but also its atmosphere. Nature cycles are well illustrated in these paintings including the seasons, time of day, atmospheric effects and the masterful effects of light. The exhibit also nicely depicts how visual imagery impacted the way in which Americans considered landscape as part of the country’s cultural heritage, with many of the places being natural and manmade landmarks with scenic beauty, historical significance and demonstrations of national progress, that became parks or historic sites. The spiritual power of nature is also made evident from the paintings that are on display. The paintings speak powerfully to the Hudson River School’s poetic celebration of nature..
The exhibit is divided into sections with great overviews for each section that provide excellent historical context and connections to literature, and paintings illustrating the subject matter of the section with detailed write-ups describing them. It provides good background information on the Hudson River School approach, with painting landscapes outdoors, and its founders Thomas Cole who painted the heroic and wilderness sublime and Asher B. Durand who painted domestic or pastoral scenes. The sections on ‘Thomas Cole and Asher B. Durand Master and Mentor’ and ‘Durand’s Studies from Nature “Lessons of High and Holy Meaning”’ provide very good background information.
The section on ‘“Those Favored Regions”: The Classic Sketching Grounds of the Hudson River’ depicts the origin of the Hudson River at Lake Tear in the Clouds in the Adirondacks to New York Harbor with the surrounding region from New York City to Albany prominent in the literary, poetic and artistic imagination of the early nation. This region had a combination of picturesque, historic, and literary associations making it a tourist destination with its varied scenery, weather, and effects of light. ‘The American Seasons’ depicts the visual power and rich associations by images of nature’s cycles, seasons and different times of day in landscape paintings. There were also separate sections on ‘Word and Image: the Literature of Picturesque Touring’; ‘American Wilderness: The Adirondacks and the White Mountains’; ‘Hudson River Vernacular’; and “Those Favored Regions”: Artists Away: “Adventure is An Element in American Artist-Life’. All these sections are quite interesting, with ‘Hudson River Vernacular’ depicting artists who did not sketch their subjects from nature but depended upon popular landscape prints as models for their American Scenery.
In addition to the overviews in each section, the booklet that we got at the front admission desk nicely goes into detail about each of the sections described above. This exhibit very nicely complements and expands upon the museum’s own collection of 19th century landscape paintings in the Henry and Sharon Martin Gallery on the museum’s first floor. It is quite comprehensive, nicely laid out, well done, and definitely worth seeing.
Other Special Exhibits:
We also enjoyed the Walter Wick: I Spy’ illustrations on the first floor as well as the ‘The Origins of a Collection’ and ‘American Art in New Britain: The Evolution of the New Britain Art Museum’ which traces the museum’s rich history and unique identity as an American Art Institution in New Britain, including a nice timeline of important events. ‘Cowboys, Detectives and Daredevils: Pulp Art at the NBMAA’ has a nice collection of vibrant, eye-catching illustrations along with the magazines that they were published in by prominent 19th – 20th Century American illustrators on the second floor. ‘People and Places in American Art: 1960s to Today’ and ‘Modern and Contemporary Masterwork from the NBMAA: 1950s to Today’ are installations from the Permanent Collection that are both on the second floor and are also interesting to see.
General Information About the Museum:
All the artwork in this museum is nicely curated and all the write-ups throughout the museum are detailed and provide good background information, including good historical, cultural, social and political perspectives, depending upon what is applicable. The museum is definitely quite educational.
Our visit at the museum this time took about an hour and a half, due to the amount of time that we had available, but it could easily have taken over 2 hours to be able to absorb and appreciate all the artwork on display. Our primary focus was on the Hudson River School Special Exhibit during this visit.
The museum has convenient, ample free parking as well as a very nice gift shop. We recommend visiting this museum and we hope that you have the opportunity to enjoy it as much as we did.
Museum passes for free admission into this museum may be available through your local library. Also, currently the museum’s website states: Saturday admission from 10 a.m. to noon is free due to support from the American Savings Foundation.
Permanent Collection:
As always we enjoyed the wide variety of artwork in the Permanent Collections in the museum, which included American Art representing ‘Early American Painting, 18th -19th Centuries’ a nation in Transition (from 1800 – 1850) memorializing the American Revolution, Hudson River School Landscape Paintings, American Impressionism, Regionalism and Realism Art, as well as art from the Gilded Age. We particularly always enjoy the Impressionist Paintings and Hudson River School Landscape Paintings, which are always quite nice to see and nicely complement the paintings in the current Special Exhibit.
The room with Shaker furnishings and the multiple photographs on the wall of the Shaker Community/Village, in Enfield, Connecticut is nice to see, since Enfield is my hometown and most of the buildings in that Shaker Community have been demolished or have been repurposed for other uses. I particularly like the monumental case of twenty-two drawers and six cupboards, which came directly from the Laundry/Wash House of that Shaker Community. It is great that it is so nicely preserved after over 150 years and now built into the museum’s walls.
Note that this write-up does not address all the exhibits at the museum, but rather those that we particularly enjoyed during our visit or thought are interesting and unique. There is much more than what is mentioned here.
Again we recommend visiting this museum and we hope that you have the opportunity to enjoy it as much as we did.
كُتب بتاريخ 4 فبراير 2022
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tedkirby
Lexington, ماساتشوستس571 مساهمة
سبتمبر 2021
We visited the museum on a Saturday in September. Museum was not crowded then. Price for the museum was reasonable. There were a lot of very impressive paintings throughout the museum, I had a very nice time. I especially liked the area showing the paintings of natural scenery. There is also a cafe there, it had some good salads, and we got to eat on the patio outside as it was a nice day.
كُتب بتاريخ 16 أكتوبر 2021
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Gene R J
Silver Spring, Maryland8,920 مساهمة
يونيو 2021
We visited here using our "after 5 PM on Thursday discount" timed online ticket($5 ea senior). The museum has an open feel with exhibits well marked and one can quickly spot favorites to study. Ours were; 1832 "Boston Harbor: Long and Central Wharves," Robert Salmon, 1897 "In the Shenandoah Valley (Off the Main Road)," by Edward Lamson Henery, 1944 "Mrs. Cushman's House," by N.C. Wyeth, 2019 "Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall." by Louise Jones, 1906 "Reading Tea Leaves," by Harry Herman Roseland, 2006 "Blue and Beyond Blue," Dale Chihuly. Blown glass sculpture.
The museum's masterpiece is the 3 wall mural by Thomas Hart Benton called "The Arts of Life in America" painted in 1932. Wonderful museum with eclectic collection.
The museum's masterpiece is the 3 wall mural by Thomas Hart Benton called "The Arts of Life in America" painted in 1932. Wonderful museum with eclectic collection.
كُتب بتاريخ 24 يونيو 2021
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dustythoughts
Manchester, كونيكتيكت1,809 مساهمات
فبراير 2021
One of my favorite things to do in Connecticut is to visit places that seem "off the hidden path", or at least not as well known, and this museum did not disappoint. This isn't a big museum and is manageable in a couple of hours, but doesn't disappoint for variety of exhibits. The building itself is pretty without being distracting, and there was a fantastic exhibit on female-identifying artist in the US throughout US history - well worth a visit for its own sake. The permanent exhibits are arranged chronologically from colonial times to the present, and you can wander at your leisure to absorb the fantastic art. There are a dizzying number of artists represented here, and it was so nice to see a change from the more highly-known "traditional" artists.
كُتب بتاريخ 18 فبراير 2021
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frandoug
New Britain, كونيكتيكت23 مساهمة
نوفمبر 2020
Outstanding collections from all periods. Just the right size so as not to fatigue. I like going through chronologicaly from colonial times to the present. And the museum's special exhibits and New/Now are always, if nothing else, creative and interesting. As a member I am prejudiced. In the last 25 years I have seen NBMAA grow from being overlooked and underestimated to become world class in a gorgeous new facility surrounded on one side by
كُتب بتاريخ 29 نوفمبر 2020
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kzsull01
Windsor, كونيكتيكت362 مساهمة
أغسطس 2020
My husband and I visited the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, Connecticut on Friday, August 14, 2020. We have been at this museum multiple times and have always enjoyed it because it has a very nice mixture of a wide variety of different types of artwork, in both its Permanent Collection and Special Exhibits. This time the Special Exhibits and the artwork in the Permanent Collection by women artists, were a nice tribute to the 100th anniversary of the of the passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote. All the Special Exhibits on display were done by women artists, and were interesting, very unique, quite innovative and a good depiction of American History. In particular, we really enjoyed the Shaker Special Exhibit ‘Anything but Simple: Shaker Gift Drawings and the Women Who Made Them’. This exhibit was a nice complement to the collection of Shaker furniture and other Shaker objects on display in the adjacent gallery. . .
All the artwork in this museum is nicely curated and all the write-ups throughout the museum are detailed and provide good background information, including good historical, cultural, social and political perspectives, depending upon what is applicable. The timed tickets and layout of the exhibits enabled plenty of room to effectively social distance. Also, the navigation through the museum by arrows on the floor made our visit interesting, even through the Permanent Collection because you were directed through these galleries in reverse from how you would go through them normally, which allowed you to see things from a different perspective.
Our visit at the museum this time took a little over an hour, due to the amount of time that we had available, but it could easily have taken over 2 hours to be able to absorb and appreciate all the artwork on display. Our primary focus was on the special exhibits during this visit.
The museum has convenient, ample free parking as well as a very nice gift shop. We recommend visiting this museum and we hope that you have the opportunity to enjoy it as much as we did.
Museum passes for free admission into this museum may be available through your local library. Also, currently the museum’s website states: Saturday admission from 10 a.m. to noon is free due to support from the American Savings Foundation.
Special Exhibits:
‘Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)’:
This exhibit interestingly and innovatively uses unique cut-paper silhouettes overlaying prints of Civil War events to construct provocative narratives that expose or confront inequalities, prejudices and stereotypes that pervade society. These prints illustrate experiences of racism and violence against African Americans, that were not adequately portrayed or left out of the historical representations of the Civil War, so that specific events could be shown “just as they occurred” from Kara Walker’s perspective. Also on display in the exhibit were a group of original Harper’s engravings of the Civil War by Winslow Homer in order to reveal the diverse perspectives of the Civil War and suggest history remains an always contested narrative..
‘In Thread and On Paper: Anni Albers in Connecticut’:
This exhibit nicely depicts Anni Albers’ diverse and inspiring career as a weaver, textile artist as well as a pioneering, designer, printmaker, and educator. The exhibit illustrates the transformation of her career from weaving, to texts to drawings to printmaking by showing the artistic and commercial work that she created after moving to New Haven, Connecticut in 1950. She used the power of abstraction and her reliance on her knowledge of materials to go from the original state of the material being used in her creations and partake in the stages of its change. This is a quite interesting exhibit, in particular, if you like textiles.
‘Anything but Simple: Shaker Gift Drawings and the Women Who Made Them’.
During the period known as the Era of Manifestations of Shaker society, members of the Shakers created drawings inspired by spiritual revelations or supernatural gifts that expressed messages of love, dedication to Shaker belief., and the promise of heaven following the journey on earth. These drawings are an anomaly for the Shakers because of their colorful and decorative nature. They depict the spiritual visions that flourished during a time of revival and rejuvenation in the Shaker world. The exhibit provides good background on the Shakers, their use of color, design, symbols and iconography.
In a society that exemplified spiritual equality among men and women, gift drawings were predominately a product of Shaker Sisters’ hands. Shaker spiritual leadership was shared by both men and women, with the Shaker Brothers having the visions and the Sisters translating the visions into art. The drawings were considered “gifts” because they were perceived as spiritual manifestations that could offer comfort through words and images, not as artistic ventures. This exhibit was nicely done and provided additional meaning to the architecture and design of the furniture and other Shaker objects on display in the adjoining gallery depicting the Shaker culture, religion, and unique way of life.
Permanent Exhibits:
As always we enjoyed the wide variety of artwork in the Permanent Collections in the museum, which included American Art representing a nation in Transition (from 1800 – 1850) memorializing the American Revolution, Hudson River School Landscape Paintings, American Impressionism, Regionalism and Realism Art, Colonial American Portraitures as well as art from the Gilded Age. We particularly enjoyed the Hudson River School Landscape Paintings, which are always quite nice to see.
Note that this write-up does not address all the exhibits at the museum, but rather those that we particularly enjoyed during our visit. There is much more than what is mentioned here.
Again, we recommend visiting this museum and we hope that you have the opportunity to enjoy it as much as we did.
All the artwork in this museum is nicely curated and all the write-ups throughout the museum are detailed and provide good background information, including good historical, cultural, social and political perspectives, depending upon what is applicable. The timed tickets and layout of the exhibits enabled plenty of room to effectively social distance. Also, the navigation through the museum by arrows on the floor made our visit interesting, even through the Permanent Collection because you were directed through these galleries in reverse from how you would go through them normally, which allowed you to see things from a different perspective.
Our visit at the museum this time took a little over an hour, due to the amount of time that we had available, but it could easily have taken over 2 hours to be able to absorb and appreciate all the artwork on display. Our primary focus was on the special exhibits during this visit.
The museum has convenient, ample free parking as well as a very nice gift shop. We recommend visiting this museum and we hope that you have the opportunity to enjoy it as much as we did.
Museum passes for free admission into this museum may be available through your local library. Also, currently the museum’s website states: Saturday admission from 10 a.m. to noon is free due to support from the American Savings Foundation.
Special Exhibits:
‘Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)’:
This exhibit interestingly and innovatively uses unique cut-paper silhouettes overlaying prints of Civil War events to construct provocative narratives that expose or confront inequalities, prejudices and stereotypes that pervade society. These prints illustrate experiences of racism and violence against African Americans, that were not adequately portrayed or left out of the historical representations of the Civil War, so that specific events could be shown “just as they occurred” from Kara Walker’s perspective. Also on display in the exhibit were a group of original Harper’s engravings of the Civil War by Winslow Homer in order to reveal the diverse perspectives of the Civil War and suggest history remains an always contested narrative..
‘In Thread and On Paper: Anni Albers in Connecticut’:
This exhibit nicely depicts Anni Albers’ diverse and inspiring career as a weaver, textile artist as well as a pioneering, designer, printmaker, and educator. The exhibit illustrates the transformation of her career from weaving, to texts to drawings to printmaking by showing the artistic and commercial work that she created after moving to New Haven, Connecticut in 1950. She used the power of abstraction and her reliance on her knowledge of materials to go from the original state of the material being used in her creations and partake in the stages of its change. This is a quite interesting exhibit, in particular, if you like textiles.
‘Anything but Simple: Shaker Gift Drawings and the Women Who Made Them’.
During the period known as the Era of Manifestations of Shaker society, members of the Shakers created drawings inspired by spiritual revelations or supernatural gifts that expressed messages of love, dedication to Shaker belief., and the promise of heaven following the journey on earth. These drawings are an anomaly for the Shakers because of their colorful and decorative nature. They depict the spiritual visions that flourished during a time of revival and rejuvenation in the Shaker world. The exhibit provides good background on the Shakers, their use of color, design, symbols and iconography.
In a society that exemplified spiritual equality among men and women, gift drawings were predominately a product of Shaker Sisters’ hands. Shaker spiritual leadership was shared by both men and women, with the Shaker Brothers having the visions and the Sisters translating the visions into art. The drawings were considered “gifts” because they were perceived as spiritual manifestations that could offer comfort through words and images, not as artistic ventures. This exhibit was nicely done and provided additional meaning to the architecture and design of the furniture and other Shaker objects on display in the adjoining gallery depicting the Shaker culture, religion, and unique way of life.
Permanent Exhibits:
As always we enjoyed the wide variety of artwork in the Permanent Collections in the museum, which included American Art representing a nation in Transition (from 1800 – 1850) memorializing the American Revolution, Hudson River School Landscape Paintings, American Impressionism, Regionalism and Realism Art, Colonial American Portraitures as well as art from the Gilded Age. We particularly enjoyed the Hudson River School Landscape Paintings, which are always quite nice to see.
Note that this write-up does not address all the exhibits at the museum, but rather those that we particularly enjoyed during our visit. There is much more than what is mentioned here.
Again, we recommend visiting this museum and we hope that you have the opportunity to enjoy it as much as we did.
كُتب بتاريخ 18 أغسطس 2020
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leedjjck
East Hampton, كونيكتيكت979 مساهمة
مارس 2020
We haven't been to this musuem for years and since it was a free admission weekend on the first weekend of the month for Bank of America cardholders, we decided to got at the last minute. Boy, what a great hidden gem with great American art! Beautifully laid out with paintings of known and unkown American artists.
كُتب بتاريخ 12 مارس 2020
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Suzanne S
CT11 مساهمة
Suggestion for lunch/coffee in area? Picnic areas?
NBMAA
New Britain, CT
There are many areas you could go for lunch/coffee. Of course, you could enjoy a nice lunch at the Museum's Café on the Park featuring hot and cold options with a terrace facing Walnut Hill Park.
You can bring a picnic lunch and have it in the park, which is right next to the Museum. You would have to bring a blanket as there are no picnic tables out there.
Or you can visit the Little Poland area of New Britain, which has a variety of delicious Polish restaurants, there is a wonderful Vietnamese place called Mae Kong's that is downtown, and we have one of the few Italian delis almost across the street called Angelo's.
The Museum's Front Desk has a list of all the places nearby that you can eat at. I hope you enjoy!
