*This Museum IS NOT Participating in Museum Day 2011*
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Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Website »
The Wadsworth Atheneum is America's oldest public art museum. Founded in 1842, the musuem's 200 year history is filled with an astounding list of “firsts” that have kept it at the forefront of the cultural world. Collection strengths include the Hudson River School, Surrealism, and European and American Impressionism.
Hudson River School Collection
Ongoing
Considered the finest of its kind held by any museum, the more than 30-piece installation will inhabit the newly renovated Huntington Gallery—prominently placed just off the museum’s entrance—for the next two years.
The reinstallation tells the story of the formation of the collection by its two major patrons, Daniel Wadsworth (1771-1848), a devoted traveler, amateur artist and architect, and founder of the Wadsworth Atheneum, and Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt (1826-1905), widow of arms manufacturer Samuel Colt.
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