Past Exhibitions

Commerce and Culture: Architecture and Society on New London’s State Street

Through April 10, 2006

This exhibition takes as its subject State Street–a thoroughfare that is relevant to the lives of everyone in the greater New London area. The exhibition will feature historic photos of downtown New London, maps, and memorabilia, including menus and rate sheets from the Crocker House, and vintage postcards of New London. Programming will include a series of six guided walking tours of State Street and “reverse” interactive gallery talks led by the Curator in which local residents will discuss and reminisce about the history of the Street.

Portrait in Progress: The New London Project

October 7 – December 4, 2005
A preview of an upcoming exhibition of the work of photographer Joe Standart. The artist will install a selection of his larger-than-life-size photographs of New Londoners in the Museum.

Brooke Photograph by Joe Standart — Brooke
Photograph by Joe Standart

James Britton: Connecticut Artist

June 3 – September 19, 2005

An introduction to the work of lesser-known Modernist James Britton with a comprehensive exhibition of paintings, drawings and woodcuts from all phases of his career. Born in Hartford, Britton divided his time between Connecticut, New York City and Long Island: for decades he passed monthly through New London on his trips between his Connecticut homes and Sag Harbor on Long Island via the New London ferry. Featured are landscapes of Connecticut painted in the 1910s through the 1930s, family memorabilia including his palette and paint cans, historic photographs, and illustrated diaries affording glimpses of the life of a Connecticut resident from times past.