Sewing Desk, Butternut and pine, 40 ¼  x 31 x 24 ½ in., Murray Collection

Masterworks of Color: Shaker Crafts and The Art of George Chaplin

February 21, 2025 - October 05, 2025

“In nature, light creates color; in painting, color creates light.” Hans Hofmann ...

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David Hockney, Illustration for James Sellars’ “Haplomatics,” 1988, Xerographic print from original drawing on Parsons Linen Ledger paper, Sheet Dimension: 11 × 17 in. (27.9 × 43.2 cm),Gift of Robert Black, Elliott Fredouelle, and Gary Knoble, 2020.1.7

David Hockney & James Sellars: Haplomatics

December 13, 2024 - October 05, 2025

Haplomatics explores the wild realm of pseudo-scientific fantasy in the visual textual a...

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Grace Hartigan, "Sweden," 1959, Oil on linen, 83 7/8 × 87 7/8 in. (213 × 223.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Guy A. Weill 64.66. © Rex R. Stevens

Modern Women: Visionary Artists

August 01, 2024 - August 03, 2025

In the late 1940s, a new style of painting emerged that would change the course of modern art. A ...

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Fritz Horstman, "Folded Cyanotype 243," 2023, Cyanotype fluid on paper, 11 1/4 x 21 in., Courtesy of the Artist

Fritz Horstman: Valleys & Blue Light

September 06, 2024 - July 27, 2025

Light and shadows, landscapes, voids, and reversals; the subjects of Fritz Horstman’s e...

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Frederick Judd Waugh, "Deluge," n.d., Oil on artist board, 48 × 60 in. (121.9 × 152.4 cm), Gift of Charles J. and Irene Hamm, 2016.1.62

Lure of the Sea: Masterworks of American Coastal Art

March 21, 2025 - July 20, 2025

To me the sea is a continual miracle, The fishes that swim—the rocks—the motion of the waves—...

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Justin Favela, "CONERICOT," 2024, Paper, cardboard, and glue

Justin Favela: Do You See What I See?

March 01, 2024 - June 22, 2025

Brilliant colors, tissue paper, cardboard, and untold stories converge in Do You See What I S...

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Howard Brown, "Interplanetary Graveyard, From Future Fiction: March 1942," 1942, Oil on canvas, 29 x 20 1/4 in., The Robert Lesser Collection of Pulp Art, 2009.22.117LIC

WONDER STORIES: Pulp Art Illustration from the NBMAA Collection

May 23, 2024 - April 20, 2025

On view in the Sanford B.D. Low Illustration Gallery at the NBMAA & at the ...

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UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Nor'Easter 2024

Nor'Easter: The 55th Annual Juried Members Exhibition

August 07, 2025 - September 07, 2025

The Annual Juried Members Exhibition is the New Britain Museum of American Art’s opportunity to e...

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DIGITAL EXHIBITIONS

Helen Frankenthaler Virtual Reality Exhibition Space

Helen Frankenthaler Virtual Reality

April 14, 2022 - April 14, 2024

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Shantell Martin Virtual Reality Exhibition Space

Shantell Martin Virtual Reality Online

January 20, 2022 - January 20, 2024

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Salem

Digital Exhibition | American Post-Impressionists: Maurice & Charles Prendergast

January 01, 2021 - July 01, 2021

Among the earliest artists to bring the new ideas and styles of European avant-garde painting to ...

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