Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos and Toys in the Attic
The playful, inventive and interactive world of Walter Wick will be the subject of Games, Gizmos and Toys in the Attic on view from Sept. 7, 2008 – Jan. 26, 2009, including photographs and 3-D displays highlighting his children’s books. A stimulating experience for the eye and mind! Walter Wick is a Hartford-based photographer whose I Spy and […]
Tradition et Innovation: French Art from the Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Through December 31, 2008 Presenting French art from the permanent collection, with paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture from the 17th through the 20th centuries. Works on view include J.A.D. Ingres’s important pencil study for the portrait of Mme. Moitessier Standing (c.1851), Pierre Auguste Renoir’s bronze Maternite’ (1916), and Auguste Rodin’s sculpture Study of a Crouching […]
Peter Harron: Moroccan Landscapes
May 31 through August 17, 2008 Acclaimed photographer Peter Harron shot these beautiful and evocative black and white photographs in the desert in Morocco. His first trip to Morocco was in 1968 when it became part of a documentary film he was doing on the changing culture of the 1960’s. In 2007, almost 40 years […]
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 […]
Just When You Think Art is Dead, Here Comes JED
March 1 through April 27, 2008 JED is a three-person collaborative who use the first initial of their birth names to form a fictitious contemporary lens-based, conceptual photographic artist in the early 21st century. JED represents their collective alter egos, whose identity is a secret. Borrowing from the Dada and Surrealist’s art movements, which includes […]
Honks, Beeps, Whistles: Getting Around New London
In The Children’s Gallery March 15 through August 17, 2008 Celebrating New London’s role as a hub of transportation, this gallery is dedicated to the interests of children. The show will feature a variety of works including paintings, antique toys, wagons and tricycles. The exhibit functions to support the LAAM Education department’s programs as well […]
At Home and Abroad: The Transcendental Landscapes of Christopher Pearse Cranch
October 12, 2007 through February 25, 2008 Listen to Helen Harrison’s review of the Cranch exhibition on “Art Waves” which aired on December 6, 2007 on 88.3 FM WLIU’s “In the Morning with Bonnie Grice.” Despite a fifty-year career as a landscape painter, Christopher […]
Barbara Roux: Evidence from Nature
October 12, 2007 – February 25, 2008 Miles Gallery will present an installation of this environmentally-based artist. Her hermetically- sealed “evidence bags” are actual specimens taken from nature. This unique exhibition is visually intriguing as well as inspirational and is the perfect complement to the Museum’s major fall exhibition At Home and Abroad: […]
The British are Coming: British Art from the Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Through February 4, 2008 Curated by Nancy Stula from the Museum’s permanent collection, The British are Coming features paintings, drawings, prints, and decorative arts from the 17th through the 20th centuries. On view are works by such luminaries as Peter Lely, John Ruskin, George Romney, William Morris, and members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Dante Gabriel […]
Les Santons de Provence
Through January 20, 2008 Back by popular demand, more than 200 santons, or “little saints” in French, will be on display for the holiday season. The exhibition includes many examples on loan from the personal collection of Edith “Fuzzy” Gipstein as well as santons from the museum’s permanent collection. Santons are hand-painted clay figurines that populate a miniature replica […]