WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART // Connecticut's Cultural Treasures
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, the oldest public art museum in the United States, was founded in 1842 by Daniel Wadsworth, one of the first important American patrons of the arts. Its collections of nearly 50,000 works of art span 5,000 years and feature the Morgan collection of Greek and Roman antiquities and European decorative arts; world-renowned baroque and surrealist paintings; an unsurpassed collection of Hudson River School landscapes; European and American Impressionist paintings; and modernist masterpieces.
Connecticut's Cultural Treasures is a new series of 50 five-minute vignettes that profiles a variety of the state's most notable cultural resources.
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WADSWORTH ATHENEUM Great Art Museum Tour Hartford CT
The Wadsworth Atheneum 600 Main Street Hartford Connecticut was founded in 1842 and opened in 1844. It is the oldest continually operating public art museum in the United States.
The museum is located at 600 Main Street in a distinctive castle-like building in downtown Hartford, Connecticut, the state's capital. With 75,000 square feet (7,000 m2) of exhibition space the museum is the largest art museum in the state of Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art was founded in 1842 by Daniel Wadsworth, one of the first major American art patrons. The museum’s collections of nearly 50,000 works of art span 5,000 years and feature the Morgan collection of Greek and Roman antiquities and European decorative arts; world-renowned baroque and surrealist paintings; an unsurpassed collection of Hudson River School landscapes; European and American Impressionist paintings; modernist masterpieces; the Serge Lifar collection of Ballets Russes drawings and costumes; the George A. Gay collection of prints; the Wallace Nutting collection of American colonial furniture and decorative arts; the Samuel Colt firearms collection; costumes and textiles; African American art and artifacts; and contemporary art. Source
Artwork Depicted (Partial List)
0:19 Pablo Picasso The Women of Algiers After Delacroix 1954
0:30 Pablo Picasso The Bather 1922
0:35 Pablo Picasso The Artist 1963
0:55 Piet Mondrian Composition in Blue and White 1935
0:58 Salvatore Dali Apparition of a Face and a Fruit Dish on a Beach 1938
1:00 Charles Le Dray Freedom Trail 2013-2015
1:07 Norman Rockwell The Young Lady with The Shiner 1953
1:15 Keith Haring Untitled (Drawing for MATRIX Exhibition June 5 - August 7,1983) 1983
1:30 Radcliffe Bailey Until I Die/Minor Keys 1997
1:42 David Wojnarowicz Untitled (One Day This Kid ...) 1991-92
1:57 Duane Hansen Sunbather 1971
2:04 Tom Wessleman Great American Nude #69 1965
2:09 Andy Warhol Triple Silver Disaster 1964
2:29 Andy Warhol Early Colored Jackie 1964
2:32 Robert Rauschenburg Retroactive I 1964
2:35 Richard Artschwager Exclamation Point 1980
2:39 Alex Katz Margie 1971
2:55 Kiki Smith Daisy Chain 1992
3:05 Mark Bradford Pile of Blocks 2015
3:14 Bob Thompson Garden of Music 1960
3:22 Romauld Hazoume Agbote 2011
3:41 Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing #1131, Whirls and Twirls, 2004
3:58 Salvator Rosa Lucrezia as Poetry 1641
4:01 Vincent Van Gogh Self-Portrait c. 1887
4:30 Claude Monet The Beach at Trouville 1870
4:46 Claude Monet The Church at Vernon 1883
5:00 Henri de Toulousse Lautrec Jane Avril Leaving the Moulin Rouge 1892
5:04 Edouard Manet The Beach at Berck 1873
5:08 Edgar Degas Double Portrait - The Cousins of the Painter 1868-70
5:19 Henri Matisse The Ostrich-Feather Hat 1918
5:25 Sol LeWitt Wall Mural
5:37 Chuck Close Self-Portrait 2007
5:55 Alexander Calder Sculpture
6:01 Stuart Davis Midi 1943
6:06 Stuart Davis Still Life - Three Objects 1925
6:10 John Singer Sargent Tents at Lake O'Hara 1916
6:16 Childe Hassam The Flag Outside Her Window 1918
6:20 William Merrit Chase Shinnecock Hills 1891
6:27 Theodore Robinson Beacon Street, Boston 1884
6:35 Julius Stewart On the Yacht Namouna, Venice 1890
6:45 John Singer Sargent Ruth Sears Bacon, 1887
6:57 Winslow Homer Rocky Coast (Maine Coast) 1882-1900
7:20 Thomas Cole Mt. Etna from Taormina 1843
7:33 George Segal Trapeze 1971
7:48 Marsden Hartley Military 1913
7:52 Marsden Hartley Movement No. 8 Provincetown 1916
8:00 George Bellows Pulpit Rock 1913
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The Wadsworth Atheneum is an art museum located in Hartford, Connecticut. The Wadsworth is noted for its collections of European Baroque art, French and American Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School landscapes, modernist masterpieces and contemporary works, as well as collections of early American furniture and decorative arts.more info visit:
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Wadsworth Atheneum Museum & Marquee Events Hartford :: Karissa & Rob
Karissa and Rob had a gorgeous, love-filled, classic wedding celebration in June. Everything about these two and this day was beautiful. Wedding Ceremony at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT // Wedding Reception at Marquee Events featuri…
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The Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest public art museum in the United States.[5] It has significant holdings of French and American Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School landscapes, modernist masterpieces and contemporary works, as well as extensive holdings in early American furniture and decorative arts.
It is located at 600 Main Street in a distinctive castle-like building in downtown Hartford, Connecticut, the state's capital. It easily accessible from I-91 and I-84, as well as by train. With 196,000 square feet (18,200 m2), the museum is the largest art museum in the state of Connecticut. for more information please visit
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CONNECTICUT CALLING 1960s TRAVELOGUE HARTFORD, STRATFORD, NEW LONDON, MYSTIC SEAPORT 90224
This 1960s color educational film about Connecticut as part of the weekly TV series “America!” that was narrated by actor Jack Douglas. The Hartford skyline is followed by the gold-domed Capital Building. The window-washing method is shown for the two-sided boat-shaped Phoenix Life Insurance Company Building. Constitution Plaza is a commercial mixed-use development area. “The Safe Arrival” is a statue monument commemorating the first pioneers. Across from it is Center Church, where Thomas Hooker was minister (:30-2:18). The Wadsworth Atheneum Art Museum contains multiple art galleries. Shown in the Early America gallery are a pewter pitcher, earthenware jug, spinning wheel, 1620 wooden cradle, and 1842 patchwork quilt. The Modern American Gallery had on display Picasso’s Still Life with Fish, Van Gogh’s Red Poppies, Monet’s The Beach at Trouville, and Ruben’s The Tiger Hunt (2:19-3:42). The Mark Twain Memorial is a house he designed and lived in. His belongings on display are shown, including oil paintings, busts, and first editions of his books. Neighbor Harriet Beecher Stowe designed the plant conservatory (3:43-6:30). A reenactment of news of the Declaration of Independence takes place every July 4 (6:31-7:03). Shown at the Elizabeth Park rose garden are White Dorothy, Rubaiyat, Crimson Glory, Peace, and Tropicana roses (7:04-7:53). The Hill-Stead estate museum in Farmington is shown. The art gallery displays Whistler’s Seascape, Bodega’s Ballet Dancers, and Monet’s Haystacks. (7:54-8:45). Sharon, incorporated 1739, has a one-way covered bridge over the Housatonic River (8:46-9:19). A bird’s-eye view is given of Washington, taken from the expanse of forested hills. The First Congregational Church and Town Hall with its plaque, and the Green Drug Store are shown (9:20-10:38).The spectator’s entrance and racing cars are shown to the Lime Rock Park road racing center (10:30-11:01). Yale is located in New Haven (11:02-11:30). Stratford has the American Shakespeare Theatre (11:31-11:48). Ocean Beach at New London is full of sunbathers. The US Coast Guard Academy is shown (11:52-12:25). Fort Griswold has a stone obelisk monument. The view from the top down is shown. A plaque commemorates Col. William Ledyard (12:26-13:13). Essex has the Clipper Ship bookstore, the Village Smithy, and Griswold Inn. The Deep River Fife and Drum Corps wears authentic historic costumes as it parades, followed by the Essex Fife and Drum Corps (13:14-15:00). Beachgoers play at Stonington, which has the Old Lighthouse Museum overlooking the docks (15:01-15:42). Mystic Seaport is an authentic recreation of a mid-1800s coastal town for tourists to explore. The Charles W. Morgan wooden whaleship is docked there, as is the Schooner Bowdoin, the training ship Joseph Conrad, and the schooner L.A. Dunton (15:43-18:55). The Hadlyme ferry transports vehicles and people. The Gillette Castle, owned by actor William Gillette, is made of white oak and field stone. Its uniquely carved doors also have wooden locks. Japanese-imported raffia is used as wall coverings (18:56-21:15).
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Wadsworth Atheneum-The History Part 1
This edition of CT Valley Views, sponsored by Windsor Federal Savings, features Host Susan Regan during a recent visit to the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT to focus on the antiquity of this respected facility.
Gene Gaddis, Chief Archivist for the Atheneum, shares an insightful pictorial of this historic institution -- a personal glimpse into the families and individuals who had the foresight to establish what was to become the oldest public art museum in the United States.
Litchfield Historical Society // Connecticut's Cultural Treasures
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Heirlooms - Hair In a Mess (Live at The Wadsworth Atheneum)
Heirlooms performing Hair In A Mess live on stage in The Aetna Theater of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Recorded December 11, 2010, when Heirlooms was the opening band for a show featuring Pegi Young and Bert Jansch, produced by the Hartford Party Starters Union.
Heirlooms are Jesse Stanford, Thomas Servidone..., Neal Spencer, Ciara Cohen, Justin Kearney, Brendan Cox
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NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM of AMERICAN ART
As part of a class project, I visited the New Britain art museum to find pieces I could write an essay for in Art Appreciation class. This building looks so small from the outside, but feels large from within. The security guard lifelike statue at the entrance was hilarious as many people thought he was real.
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Connecticut's State Capitol: Home to History
State Senator L. Scott Frantz (R-Greenwich) hosts a ten minute tour of Connecticut's historic State Capitol Building located atop Hartford's Bushnell Park.
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In this video we explore the city of Hartford, Connecticut.
Hartford is the capital of Connecticut. It’s home to the Mark Twain House & Museum. The 1874 mansion contains thousands of artifacts, including the desk at which Twain wrote his best-known works. The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center includes the author’s Victorian house and many period furnishings, plus a garden. The broad collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art includes Renaissance and impressionist works.
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HARTFORD STAGE // Connecticut's Cultural Treasures
Hartford Stage is one of the leading resident theatres in the United States, known internationally for entertaining and enlightening audiences with a wide range of the best of world drama, from classics to provocative new plays and musicals and neglected works from the past.
Connecticut's Cultural Treasures is a new series of 50 five-minute vignettes that profiles a variety of the state's most notable cultural resources.
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TOP 15. Best Museums in Connecticut
TOP 15. Best Museums in Connecticut: Yale University Art Gallery New Haven, The Submarine Force Museum Groton, Mystic Seaport, The Mark Twain House & Museum Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Britain Museum of American Art, Stamford Museum & Nature Center, New England Air Museum Windsor Locks,
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Eric D. Lehman is the author of Bridgeport: Tales from the Park City, Hamden: Tales from the Sleeping Giant, and A History of Connecticut Wine. His fourth book, Insiders Guide to Connecticut, will be released soon, as well his fifth, A History of Connecticut Food. He teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Bridgeport and his series Afoot in Connecticut highlights the Nutmeg State's natural and historical treasures.
This episode finds Eric in New Britain at the Museum of American Art.
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