A Work in Progress: Fifty Years of Collecting Contemporary Art at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum

March 15 through August 17, 2008

Best known for its collection of 18th and 19th century American Art, the Lyman Allyn Art Museum also has a strong history of collecting contemporary art which this exhibition will showcase. Featured are works by Ellen Carey, Sol LeWitt, Ad Reinhardt, Rainer Fetting, and Cleve Gray as well as many other artists whose work entered the museum’s collection in the years since 1957. A subset of this exhibition will be a contemporary photographic portfolio recently acquired by the museum and on view for the first time.