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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 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.

 

Pierre Mignard (1612-1695) Portrait of a Lady  n/d Oil on canvas
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
Anton Mauve (1838-1888)
Shepherd and Sheep
(n/d)
Watercolor and gouache on paper

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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.

 

Sam Messer Mr. Coincidence 1999 Oil on canvas
Sam Messer
Mr. Coincidence
1999
Oil on canvas
Ellen Carey Blinks Color photogram 2005 20 x 16 inches
Ellen Carey
Blinks
Color photogram
2005
20 x 16 inches
Cleve Gray (American, 1918-2004) Zen Garden Acrylic on canvas
Cleve Gray (American, 1918-2004)
Zen Garden
Acrylic on canvas

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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 Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones and Evelyn de Morgan.

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