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  • Louise Jones

    Louise Jones

    January 21, 2019 - December 31, 2021
    In 2019, Detroit-based artist Louise Jones brought a vibrant array of floral imagery to the walls of the New Britain Museum of American Art’s LeWitt Family Staircase. Known for her large-scale botanical paintings, Jones creates site-specific murals whose compositions are often inspired by native ...
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  • Shantell Martin, Digital Image from 4" x 5" film negative, Photo by Theo Coulombe

    NEW/NOW: Shantell Martin

    October 22, 2020 - April 18, 2021
    The NBMAA will present the work of Shantell Martin (b. 1980), one of the most versatile young artists working today, known for her exploration into the vast potential of the drawn line. Using an ink marker, she creates improvisat...
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  • Ellen Carey, <em>Dings & Shadows</em>, 2019, Color photogram/c-print/unique, 34 x 52 in., Courtesy of the Artist and JHB Gallery (NY, NY): Galerie Miranda (Paris, FR); M+B (LA, CA)

    Lights, Camera, Ellen Carey: A Solo Exhibition at The Delamar Presented by NBMAA

    September 10, 2020 - March 01, 2021
    As part of the New Britain Museum of American Art’s partnership with the Delamar Hotel in West Hartford, we&nbsp;are thrilled to announce our forthcoming exhibition featuring&nbsp;a solo presentation by acclaimed Hartford-based artist Ellen Carey (b. 1952), who was recently named one of th...
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  • 2020/20+ Women @ NBMAA

    2020/20+ Women @ NBMAA Celebrating the Impact of Female-Identifying Artists throughout American History

    January 24, 2020 - January 31, 2021
    The New Britain Museum of American Art will present 2020/20+ Women @ NBMAA, a year-long series of seven groundbreaking exhibitions devoted exclusively to women artists beginning January 2020. 100 years after women gained the right to vote, only 27% of major exhibitions are devoted to women artist...
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  • Solar Imp

    Helen Frankenthaler Late Works, 1990–2003

    February 11, 2021 - May 23, 2021
    Helen Frankenthaler Late Works, 1990–2003 will be the first museum presentation dedicated to the exploration of works from Helen Frankenthaler’s late life, featuring approximately 22 works on paper dating from 1990 to 2003—some measuring over 6 feet. The exhibition is curated by Douglas ...
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  • Jennifer Wen Ma, Rendering of <i>An Inner Sea</i>, 2020

    NEW/NOW: Jennifer Wen Ma

    May 05, 2021 - September 26, 2021
    As part of the NBMAA’s NEW/NOW exhibition series featuring emerging and established contemporary artists, the Museum will present Jennifer Wen Ma: An Inward Sea, opening May 6. In recent years, Ma (b. 1973, Beijing) has explored themes of utopia, dystopia, and the human conditio...
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  • Yoko Ono, <i>Wish Tree</i>, 1996/1997, Installation view with artist seated, En Trance – Ex It, Lonja del Pescado, Alicante, Spain (June 23 – July 25, 1997), Photo: Miguel Angel Valero, Courtesy of Yoko Ono

    Some Day is Now: Women, Art & Social Change

    October 01, 2020 - January 24, 2021
    Marking the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in America, Some Day is Now: Women, Art & Social Change presents iconic American female artists whose work advocates for social empowerment and change. Some Day is Now features over twenty artists including Yoko Ono, Jenn...
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  • Polly Jane Reed, <i>A Type of Mother Hanna's Pocket Handkerchief</i>, 1851, Ink and watercolor on paper, 23 5/8 x 26 inches, Collection of Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA

    Anything but Simple: Shaker Gift Drawings and the Women Who Made Them

    August 06, 2020 - January 10, 2021
    Organized by Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA, Anything but Simple: Shaker Gift Drawings and the Women Who Made Them features rare Shaker “gift” or “spirit” drawings, all created between 1843–57. Colorful, decorative, and complex, these drawings are unique to the Shakers and to Ame...
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  • <i>Promised Land</i>

    Nor'Easter: 50th Annual Juried Members Exhibition

    September 12, 2020 - October 04, 2020
    About the Exhibition The New Britain Museum of American Art is dedicated to showcasing the work of emerging and established artists in all media through the Nor'Easter Annual Juried Exhibition. Winners First...
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  • Black White Gold I

    In Thread and On Paper: Anni Albers in Connecticut

    March 19, 2020 - September 13, 2020
    Known for her pioneering graphic wall hangings, weavings, and designs, Anni Albers (1899-1994) is considered the most important textile artist of the 20th century. Curated by Fritz Horstman,&nbsp;the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, In Thread and On Paper will explore the groundbreaking...
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  • "Exodus of Confederates from Atlanta, from 'Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)"

    Kara Walker: Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

    January 24, 2020 - August 23, 2020
    Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) considers experiences of racism toward African Americans that were absent or only alluded to in historical representations of the Civil War. Created in collaboration with the LeRoy Neiman Center...
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  • Clouds

    The Art and Artists of Monhegan Island: Selections from the Charles J. and Irene Hamm Collection of Coastal Art

    August 15, 2019 - August 01, 2020
    Located 10 miles off the coast of Maine, the remote and rustic island of Monhegan has drawn artists from around the world for over 150 years. Appreciated for its natural windswept beauty, quaint fishing village, high granite cliffs, and rocky beaches, Monhegan—known as “The Artist’s Island”—has b...
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  • Julia R, Jefferson Elementary School, Grade 3, Tempera and Oil pastel, Kim Gremillion

    Art from the New Britain Public & Parochial Schools 2020

    June 01, 2020 - June 30, 2020
    Every year the Museum displays hundreds of artworks by New Britain students in the annual Art from the New Britain Public & Parochial Schools, sponsored by Webster Bank. This year would have marked the 30th annual showing of the exhibition at the NBMAA, which welcomed more than 400 family members...
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  • 2018 Floral Expressions

    2020 Floral Expressions

    May 08, 2020 - May 10, 2020
    The New Britain Museum of American Art continues the tradition of Floral Expressions with a celebration of the synergy between art and nature. Once again, we challenge regional floral designers to take inspiration from NBMAA masterworks and create artfully arranged interpretations using breathtak...
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  • Chairway to Heaven

    Chairway to Heaven: A Celebration of Shaker Seating Furniture

    July 07, 2019 - February 02, 2020
    The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, known today as the Shakers, came to the United States from England in 1774. In 1787, their first fully formed, self-supporting community was established at New Lebanon, New York, only a few miles west of the Massachusetts border. Withi...
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  • "Two Idlers"

    For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design

    October 17, 2019 - January 26, 2020
    Founded in New York City in 1825 by artists including Samuel F.B. Morse, Asher B. Durand, and Thomas Cole, The National Academy of Design is the oldest artist honorary society in the United States. From its inception to the present, the NAD has required all Academicians to donate a represent...
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    Bill Viola: The Raft

    October 10, 2019 - January 05, 2020
    This October, the NBMAA will present The Raft, a powerful video installation by one of the most highly regarded contemporary artists. Meticulously captured in slow-motion, The Raft addresses human calamity and shared humanity, provoking a consideration of the range of response...
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  • Prentice lily

    In Bloom: The Botanical Paintings of T. Merrill Prentice

    March 25, 2019 - October 17, 2019
    This March, the New Britain Museum of America will present an array of botanical paintings by Connecticut native T. (Thurlow) Merrill Prentice (1898–1985). The most extensive exhibition of these paintings at the NBMAA since their gift by the artist in 1977, Prentice’s vibrant watercolors...
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  • Untitled

    Expanded Field: Photography from the Collection of the NBMAA

    August 02, 2019 - September 29, 2019
    The New Britain Museum of American Art began collecting photography in the 1970s, and over the course of four decades, has amassed over 500 works dating from the 1840s to today. Expanded Field: Photography from the Collection of the NBMAA represents the most extensive photography surv...
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  • Untitled (Illustration for "Ocotzinalli")

    NEW/NOW: Pablo Helguera

    April 05, 2019 - September 15, 2019
    This April, the New Britain Museum of American Art presents the work of Pablo Helguera as part of the Museum’s NEW/NOW series featuring contemporary artists. Drawing upon Helguera’s passion for history and literature, this multi-disciplinary project, titled “Amazing Stories,” focuses on ...
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  • New Britain Musuem of American Art Exhibition

    Nor'Easter: The 49th Annual Juried Exhibition

    June 22, 2019 - July 14, 2019
    EXHIBITION Saturday, June 22–Sunday, July 14, 2019 RECEPTION &amp; AWARDS Sunday, June 23, 12:30-2 p.m. LOCATION 56 Lexington Street, New Britain, CT 06052 ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Nor...
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  • Okeeffejimson Weedrgb

    The Beyond: Georgia O'Keeffe and Contemporary Art

    February 22, 2019 - June 02, 2019
    Enormous flowers, luscious colors, desert landscapes, feminine forms, and still lifes. Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) pioneered revolutionary ways of visually interpreting the world through her early embrace of abstraction and effusive use of color and is recognized as one of the preeminent America...
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  • Forest and Lumber

    Neil Jenney: American Realist

    November 02, 2018 - March 17, 2019
    Neil Jenney (b. 1945, Torrington, CT) emerged in the late 1960s with a unique brand of realist painting steeped in the landscape, people, and pastimes of America. Over the course of 50 years, Jenney has forged his own path outside the prevailing art trends, creating large-scale figurative landsca...
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  • Hollyhocks

    Pictures at an Exhibition

    September 27, 2018 - November 30, 2018
    From September through November 2018, the NBMAA will present Pictures at an Exhibition, an innovative exhibition developed in partnership with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and inspired by Modest Mussorgsky’s renowned 1874 musical composition of the same name. The exhibition spans mult...
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  • Floral Expressions 2014

    2018 Floral Expressions

    October 05, 2018 - October 07, 2018
    The New Britain Museum of American Art continues the tradition of Floral Expressions with a celebration of the synergy between art and nature. Once again, we challenge regional floral designers to take inspiration from NBMAA masterworks and create artfully arranged interpretations using breathtak...
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