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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Northern European Art from the Lyman Allyn Art Museum Permanent Collection
January 30 – December 31, 2005 Note from the Curator (Nancy Stula): The Chapel Gallery is installed with European Art from the permanent collection: it turns out there is such a wealth of works that I have decided to concentrate on Northern European Art—specifically Dutch, Flemish and German Art from the 15th through the 18th, poss […]