(Top) Robert Seldon Duncanson, "Fruit Still Life," c. 1849, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art; (Bottom) Winslow Homer, "East Hampton Beach," Long Island, 1874, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art

"Across the Nation" | From the National Gallery of Art

May 07, 2025 - December 27, 2026

The New Britain Museum of American Art is partnering with the National Gallery of Art for the Nat...

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Joe Fig, "Vermeer: Woman Writing a Letter with Her Maid / Rijksmuseum," 2025, 12 ½ x 12 in., Oil on Linen, mounted on MDF Board,  Courtesy of the artist

Joe Fig: Contemplating Vermeer

June 06, 2025 - January 11, 2026

In 2023, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam hosted a monumental exhibition of Johannes Vermee...

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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 - September 21, 2025

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

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Frank R. Paul (1884-1963), "Into Plutonian Depths, For Wonder Stories Quarterly, Spring," 1931,  Color gouache, 23 1/2 x 17 in., New Britain Museum of American Art, The Robert Lesser Collection of Pulp Art, 2009.22.98LIC

WONDER STORIES: Masterworks of Pulp Art Illustration

May 23, 2024 - September 14, 2025

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

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

Justin Favela: Do You See What I See?

March 01, 2024 - August 31, 2025

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

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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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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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Richard Pousette-Dart, "Sylvia (Spring, Rocks, and Daffodils)," 1979–81, painted 1985–88, Acrylic paint over aquatint, with scraping, printed in dark gray ink on wove paper, Image: 30 ¾ x 42 5⁄16 in., Collection of the Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation

Altered States: The Etchings of Richard Pousette-Dart

August 22, 2025 - April 26, 2026

For Richard Pousette-Dart (1916–1992), the print pulled straight from the press offered tantalizi...

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Roy Lichtenstein, "Sea Shore," 1964, Oil and acrylic on two sheets of plexiglass, Whitney Museum of American Art; The Roy Lichtenstein Study Collection, gift of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation 2019.83. © Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, all rights reserved

Pop! American Art in the 1960s

July 31, 2025 - July 26, 2026

In the 1960s, a new style of art burst onto the scene, defined by bright colors and eye-catching ...

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RECENT ACQUISITIONS

Harriet Cany Peale (1800-1869), "Kaaterskill Clove," 1858, Oil on canvas, 36 x 25 inches, Museum purchase with funds generously provided by the Vance Foundation

Harriet Cany Peale’s "Kaaterskill Clove," 1858

The New Britain Museum of American Art is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Harriet Cany Pe...

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Rogelio Báez Vega (b. 1974), "The Country Club," 2024, Oil, beeswax and gold powder pigment on canvas, 60 × 84 in., Purchase courtesy of the Paul Zimmerman Fund, 2025.

Rogelio Báez Vega, The Country Club, from the Construct of a No-Country series, 2024

The New Britain Museum of American Art is thrilled to acquire Rogelio Báez Vega’s recent painting...

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DIGITAL EXHIBITIONS

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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