Exhibitions

October 1, 2022 - May 14, 2023

Dreams and Memories

Dreams and Memories, an exploration of historic and contemporary art from the Museum’s permanent collection, considers these themes as drivers of artistic creativity and expressions of powerful forces in American society.

Dreams and memories both manifest and generate ideas, perhaps no more powerfully than in art. Through works by such artists as Edmund Greacen, Mary Knollenberg, Willard Metcalf, Charles Ethan Porter, Winfred Rembert, and Bessie Potter Vonnoh, the exhibition explores these ideas through themes such as reverie, surrealism, identity formation, religion, social action, historical memory, and the American dream.

Image: Winfred Rembert (­1945–2021), Cotton Pickers, 28 x 35 in. Dye on carved and tooled leather, Purchase

Ongoing

An American Place: The Art Colony at Old Lyme

During the first two decades of the 20th century, the village of Old Lyme, Connecticut was the setting for one of the largest and most significant art colonies in America.

Virtual Tour of the Florence Griswold House

Virtual tour of special exhibition Dreams & Memories

Virtual tour of special exhibition Dana Sherwood: Animal Appetites and Other Encounters in Wildness

Virtual tour of special exhibition New London County Quilts & Bed Covers, 1750-1825

Virtual Tour of special exhibition Revisiting America: The Prints of Currier & Ives

Virtual Tour of special exhibition Social & Solitary: Reflections on Art, Isolation, and Renewal,

Virtual Tour of special exhibitions Expanding Horizons: Celebrating 20 Years of the Hartford Steam Boiler Collection and Centennial of the Lyme Art Association Gallery

Expandiendo Horizontes: Celebrando los 20 años de la colección de calderas de vapor de Hartford

Virtual Tour of special exhibition Fresh Fields: American Impressionist Landscapes

Text in English and Spanish

Virtual tour of the special exhibition "Nothing More American"

Virtual tour Jennifer Angus Griswold House Installation

Silver Wings and Golden Scales

Dear Dear Husband

With a Needle & Brush

The Exacting Eye of Walker Evans

Woodrow & Ellen Axson Wilson in Old Lyme