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Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Powerful art collection

Swirls & Twirls

The oldest continually operating public museum in the US began with just 79 objects and now features a robust collection of over 50,000 inside its castle-esque building.

Special highlights include a collection of Hudson River School landscapes, but European and contemporary works are well represented.

What’s on view rotates and holdings include works by Gentileschi, Caravaggio, Fra Angelico, Hals, Renoir, Manet, Picasso, Pollock, Rothko, Sherman, Mondrian, Warhol, O’Keefe, Mapplethorpe, and Gonzalez-Torres.

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600 Main Street; Hartford, CT 06103

Hours: Thursdays-Sundays; 12pm–5pm

Adults $20; Full & latest rates

thewadsworth.org

Art

Film, TV, & Literature

Hartford, CT

History

Text © Rachel Levine

Image by Helder Mira