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.

 

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.