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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
 
Peter Harron Camel Tracks Silver gelatin print - 2007 Peter Harron
Morning Light Silver gelatin print - 2007 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 later, Harron and his Moroccan- born wife Colette returned to Morocco with still camera, loaded with black and white film only, to photograph the breathtaking landscapes, the ancient adobe architecture, the quietness of the desert, the magic light, and to capture a sense of time. A Work in Progress: Fifty Years of Collecting Contemporary Art at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum
March 15 through August 17, 2008Best 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.
 
Pierre Mignard (1612-1695) Portrait of a Lady n/d Oil on canvas Anton Mauve (1838-1888)
Shepherd and Sheep (n/d) Watercolor and gouache on paper Tradition et Innovation: French Art from the Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Through December 31, 2008Presenting 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 Woman. Also on view are 17th century drawings by Nicholas Poussin, Hyacinthe Rigaud, and Francois Boucher; and paintings by Pierre Mignard, Gustave Courbet, and Honore’ Daumier. |
American StoriesThis ongoing and evolving exhibition drawn from the Lyman Allyn’s permanent collection presents a broad range of American art featuring painting, works on paper, sculpture, and decorative arts from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. |
All of our exhibitions have been funded in part by generous grants from The Frank Loomis Palmer Fund, Bank of America, Trustee, and Pfizer, Inc.
For information on the Museum Exhibitions, contact:
Dr. Nancy Stula, Interim Director and Curator, Lyman Allyn Art Museum
For general information, please email us at info@lymanallyn.org