New Britain Museum of American Art Exhibitions | Art Museums in CT

New Britain Museum of American Art Exhibitions | Art Museums in CT
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
RECENT ACQUISITIONS
DIGITAL EXHIBITIONS
PAST EXHIBITIONS
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
The Museum of the Old Colony: An Art Installation by Pablo Delano
March 14, 2026
July 05, 2026
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"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...
Permanent Collection Installation | Faith Ringgold: Declaration of Freedom and Independence
February 10, 2026
September 27, 2026
Throughout her prolific career, Faith Ringgold (1930–2024) created art as a vehicle for storytell...
Permanent Collection Installation | Oscar Berger Presidential Portraits
January 29, 2026
August 30, 2026
Internationally acclaimed as “the greatest caricaturist of world celebrities,” Oscar Berger (1901...
Permanent Collection Installation | A Connecticut Legacy: Sol LeWitt at the New Britain Museum of American Art
October 29, 2025
June 28, 2026
Long before becoming one of the most celebrated and visionary artists of the 20th century, ...
Shaker Masterworks and the Art of Martin Kline
November 08, 2025
June 07, 2026
Shaker Masterworks and the Art of Martin Kline pairs the best of Shaker craftsmanship wi...
Pop! American Art in the 1960s
July 31, 2025
May 31, 2026
"The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split sec...
Inspired Visions: Berlin Public Schools 2026 Art Exhibition
April 22, 2026
April 26, 2026
The New Britain Museum of American Art is thrilled to welcome students and families to the Museum...
Permanent Collection Installation | Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Photography
October 16, 2025
April 26, 2026
Photography has long shaped our understanding of the world—its people, places, and the ...
Altered States: The Etchings of Richard Pousette-Dart
August 22, 2025
April 26, 2026
First-generation Abstract Expressionist artist Richard Pousette-Dart (1916–1992) excelled in a wi...
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
2026 New Britain Public and Parochial Schools Student Art Show
April 29, 2026
May 03, 2026
The New Britain Museum of American Art is thrilled to welcome students and families back for its ...
John Hitchcock: We Are Defined by the Beat
May 16, 2026
November 29, 2026
“What’s on the land? What’s above the land and what’s below the land? This work is relate...
RECENT ACQUISITIONS
Robert S. Duncanson, "Landscape," 1870
See the NBMAA's newest acquisition, Robert S. Duncanson's Landscape, 1870, made possible...
Harriet Cany Peale’s "Kaaterskill Clove," 1858
The New Britain Museum of American Art is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Harriet Cany Pe...
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...
DIGITAL EXHIBITIONS
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 ...
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Norman Rockwell: From Camera to Canvas
September 26, 2025
February 15, 2026
“I’ve always been known as The Kid with the Camera Eye.” - Norman Rockwell
For m...
Santa Comes to Town: New Acquisitions from the Museum Collection
November 12, 2025
January 25, 2026
This exhibition welcomes the holiday season with a spotlight on the enduring image of S...
Joe Fig: Contemplating Vermeer
June 06, 2025
January 11, 2026
In 2023, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam hosted a monumental exhibition of Johannes Vermee...
Masterworks of Color: Shaker Crafts and The Art of George Chaplin
February 21, 2025
October 26, 2025
“In nature, light creates color; in painting, color creates light.” Hans Hofmann
...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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—...
2025 New Britain Public and Parochial Schools Student Art Show
May 14, 2025
May 18, 2025
The Museum is thrilled to welcome students and families back for its annual installment of local ...
Blue Grass, Green Skies: American Impressionism and Realism from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
January 24, 2025
May 18, 2025
"It must not be assumed that American Impressionism and French Impressionism are identica...
Inspired Visions: Berlin Public Schools 2025 Art Exhibition
April 23, 2025
April 27, 2025
The NBMAA is thrilled to welcome students and families to the Museum for the Berlin Public School...
Elizabeth Gourlay: A Tribute
June 05, 2024
March 30, 2025
Spanning nearly fifteen years of creative expression, Elizabeth Gourlay: A Tribute
comm...
Vik Muniz: Extra-Ordinary
October 06, 2024
February 23, 2025
Vik Muniz (Brazilian-American, born 1961) is distinguished as one of the most innovativ...
HANDLED WITH CARE: Shaker Master Crafts and the Art of Barbara Prey
March 15, 2024
February 09, 2025
A collaboration between Hancock Shaker Village and the New Britain Museum of American Art
...
Glass Impressions: Vitreographs and Studio Glass from the Collection
February 22, 2024
December 01, 2024
Glass Impressions
celebrates the dynamic sculptural and pictorial dimensions of glass. ...
The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans
April 19, 2024
September 15, 2024
Curated by artist, educator, editor, activist, and writer Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Citizen of th...
Nor'Easter: The 54th Annual Juried Members Exhibition
July 25, 2024
August 11, 2024
The Annual Juried Members Exhibition is the New Britain Museum of American Art’s opportunity to e...
NEW/NOW Anila Quayyum Agha: Illuminations
October 26, 2023
July 07, 2024
This dazzling, immersive NEW/NOW exhibition features the work of Anila Quayyum Agha (b. ...
Permanent Collection Installation | Modern Times: 1920s-1950s
November 02, 2023
June 30, 2024
Two distinct styles dominated American art in the first half of the 20th century: Mode...
Artists’ Spectrum: The Docent Art Show
May 13, 2024
June 09, 2024
On view in the Museum Café.
This delightful exhibition highlights the works of ...
Richard Claude Ziemann: In Nature
January 25, 2024
April 21, 2024
Landers House
Atmospheric and evocative, Richard Claude Ziemann’s works on paper and pai...
Women Reframe American Landscape
November 18, 2023
March 30, 2024
Illuminating the artistic contributions and perspectives of women, this two-part exhibition inclu...
Masterworks of Shaker Design: Mount Lebanon, NY
August 25, 2023
March 03, 2024
For the second exhibition in the series Masterworks of Shaker Design, the community ...
Elizabeth Gourlay: Color, Chords, and Threads | At the Delamar West Hartford
August 10, 2023
February 28, 2024
At the Delamar West Hartford 1 Memorial Road, West Hartford, CT 06107...
Ellen Carey: Struck By Light
July 21, 2023
February 11, 2024
Part One: On view in the Helen T. and Philip B. Stanley Gallery
...
The Black Matriarchs Series
June 08, 2023
December 31, 2023
The New Britain Museum of American Art is tied, inextricably, to the history and people of New Br...
Masterworks of the Sanford B. D. Low Illustration Collection
December 02, 2022
December 31, 2023
One of the most unique and exceptional aspects of the New Britain Museum of American Art’s perman...
Community Exhibition: CCARC
September 20, 2023
November 19, 2023
On view in the Museum Café.
The NBMAA is honored to present artwork created by members of...
Eva LeWitt
November 12, 2021
November 11, 2023
Eva LeWitt’s vibrant, handmade sculptures are fashioned from everyday commercial and industrial m...
From the Vault: Post-War to Contemporary Art
May 04, 2023
October 29, 2023
Following World War II, American artists began to challenge traditional modes of pictorial repres...
Nor'Easter: The 53rd Annual Juried Members Exhibition
September 21, 2023
October 08, 2023
This is the NBMAA’s opportunity to showcase contemporary visual arts from the region. This promin...
Walter Wick: Hidden Wonders!
March 31, 2023
September 03, 2023
The whimsical world of Walter Wick has fascinated people of all ages since 1991, when his first c...
NBMAA Staff Skateboard Show
July 27, 2023
September 01, 2023
For the past three months, Museum staff have been busy creating original artworks using wooden sk...
Masterworks of Shaker Design: A Tale of Two Enfields
March 03, 2023
August 06, 2023
This is the first of a planned series of exhibitions designed to highlight examples of the finest...
Robert S. Duncanson, "Landscape," 1870
February 09, 2023
June 30, 2023
See the NBMAA's newest acquisition, Robert S. Duncanson's Landscape, 1870, made possible...
Ansel Adams and the Legacy of the American Landscape: Photographs from the NBMAA
January 19, 2023
June 04, 2023
Among the most revered photographers of the 20th century, Ansel Adams is celebrated fo...
In Focus: Photographs from the O’Neil Collection
December 08, 2022
June 04, 2023
At the Delamar West Hartford
This winter, the NBMAA presents two exhibitions inspired by ...
Elizabeth Gourlay: Eclectic Threads
October 07, 2022
May 28, 2023
This fall, the NBMAA will launch its newest series of exhibitions in our recently restored Lander...
Art from the New Britain Public and Parochial Schools 2023
May 17, 2023
May 21, 2023
The Museum is thrilled to welcome students and families back for its annual installment of local ...
2023 Berlin Public School's District Art Show
April 26, 2023
April 30, 2023
The Museum is thrilled to welcome students and families back into the Museum for the upcoming exh...
Rashmi Talpade: Piecing Together a New Britain Story
July 21, 2022
April 30, 2023
Wallingford, Connecticut-based artist Rashmi Talpade uses photo-collages to create works inspired...
Edward Burtynsky: Earth Observed
November 18, 2022
April 16, 2023
Edward Burtynsky’s astonishing photographs depict, in large scale, our human impact on the planet...
North America Divided
March 18, 2022
March 18, 2023
Pairing 19th-century landscapes and genre scenes with works by contemporary artists Ne...
Being Seen: People and Places in American Art, 1960s to Today
December 08, 2021
March 12, 2023
Featuring bold and visionary works from the 1960s to the 2010s, this installation explores depict...
American Realism Today
September 16, 2022
January 01, 2023
Capturing scenes of the landscape and everyday life, American Realism Today celebrates t...
Glass Impressions: Vitreographs from the NBMAA
July 28, 2022
December 04, 2022
At the Delamar West Hartford

Glass Impressions features a suite of vitreog...
Mildred Thompson: Cosmic Flow
May 19, 2022
November 27, 2022
Mildred Thompson (1936-2003) was fascinated by micro- and macrocosmic worlds of particles, energy...
30 Americans
June 17, 2022
October 30, 2022
Drawn from the acclaimed Rubell Museum in Miami, Florida, 30 Americans showcases works b...
American Art in New Britain: The Evolution of the NBMAA
October 27, 2021
October 01, 2022
In conjunction with New Britain’s sesquicentennial year and the recent reopening of the NBMAA’s ...
Nor'Easter: The 52nd Annual Juried Members Exhibition
August 11, 2022
August 28, 2022
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Cowboys, Detectives, and Daredevils: Pulp Art at the NBMAA
January 28, 2022
August 07, 2022
From the Great Depression through the era of World War II, Americans turned to inexpensive novels...
Early Modern America: 1910s to 1950s
April 06, 2022
July 24, 2022
Two distinct styles dominated American art in the first half of the 20th century: Mode...
Sol LeWitt at the Delamar West Hartford
December 01, 2021
June 20, 2022
A Solo Exhibition
Presented by the New Britain Museum of Ame...
Permanent Collection Installation | Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from the NBMAA: 1950s to Today
January 28, 2022
May 31, 2022
This new installation features iconic masterworks from the NBMAA’s permanent collection, as well ...
The Poetry of Nature: Hudson River School Landscapes from the New-York Historical Society
January 28, 2022
May 22, 2022
A stunning array of over 40 paintings created between 1818 and 1886, The Poetry of N...
Art from the New Britain Public and Parochial Schools 2022
May 10, 2022
May 15, 2022
The Museum is thrilled to welcome students and families back into the Museum for its annual ...
Art from the Berlin Public Schools 2022
April 26, 2022
May 01, 2022
The Museum is thrilled to welcome students and families back into the Museum for the upcomin...
Walter Wick: Storybook & Out of this World
February 08, 2022
April 24, 2022
The whimsical world of Walter Wick has fascinated people of all ages since 1991, when his first c...
Steel, String, Spit Bite: Selections from the LeWitt Collection
November 12, 2021
March 18, 2022
Throughout his career, Sol LeWitt assembled a remarkable collection of more than 4,000 works, man...
Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints
September 18, 2021
January 09, 2022
The conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) is best known for his programmatic wall drawings and...
Cycle of Terror and Tragedy by Graydon Parrish
September 01, 2021
December 31, 2021
This installation features the NBMAA’s Cycle of Terror and Tragedy by Graydon Parrish, an iconic ...
Walter Wick I Spy: Summer, Autumn, and Winter
July 14, 2021
December 31, 2021
The whimsical world of Walter Wick has fascinated people of all ages since 1991, when his first c...
Permanent Collection Installation: New Britain Art and Artists
July 01, 2021
December 01, 2021
The inaugural installation of artwork in the restored
Landers House takes New Britain art and ar...
NEW/NOW Jennifer Wen Ma: An Inward Sea
May 13, 2021
October 24, 2021
As part of the NBMAA’s NEW/NOW exhibition series featuring emerging and established cont...
Louise Jones
January 21, 2019
October 24, 2021
In 2019, Detroit-based artist Louise Jones brought a vibrant array of floral imagery to the walls...
Jennifer Wen Ma: Gardens of Resilience
July 21, 2021
September 30, 2021
Concurrent to ...
2020/20+ Women @ NBMAA Celebrating the Impact of Female-Identifying Artists throughout American History
January 24, 2020
September 26, 2021
The New Britain Museum of American Art will present 2020/20+ Women @ NBMAA, a year-long series of...
Nor'Easter: The 51st Annual Juried Exhibition
August 12, 2021
August 29, 2021
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
The Annual Juried Members Exhibition is the New Britain Museum...
Permanent Collection Installation: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions
June 17, 2021
July 25, 2021
The NBMAA is thrilled to present a selection of acquisitions and gifts that have entered the Muse...
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 ...
Art from the New Britain Public & Parochial Schools 2021
May 26, 2021
June 30, 2021
The annual exhibition, a 31- year tradition at the New Britain Museum of American Art, features t...
Helen Frankenthaler: Late Works, 1990–2003
February 11, 2021
May 23, 2021
Helen Frankenthaler: Late Works, 1990–2003 will be the first museum presentation dedicat...
NEW/NOW: Shantell Martin
October 22, 2020
April 18, 2021
The NBMAA will present the work of ...
Lights, Camera, Ellen Carey: A Solo Exhibition at The Delamar Presented by NBMAA
September 10, 2020
March 28, 2021
As part of the New Britain
Museum of American Art’s
partnership with the Delamar
Hotel in West...
Anything but Simple: Shaker Gift Drawings and the Women Who Made Them
August 06, 2020
February 21, 2021
Organized by Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA, Anything but Simple: Shaker Gift Drawing...
Some Day is Now: Women, Art & Social Change
October 01, 2020
January 24, 2021
Marking the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in America, Some Day is Now: Women, Art & S...
Nor'Easter: 50th Annual Juried Members Exhibition
September 12, 2020
October 04, 2020
About the Exhibition
The New Britain Museum of American Art is dedicated to showcasing ...
In Thread and On Paper: Anni Albers in Connecticut
March 19, 2020
September 13, 2020
Known for her pioneering graphic wall hangings, weavings, and designs, Anni Albers (1899-1994) is...
The Art and Artists of Monhegan Island: Selections from the Charles J. and Irene Hamm Collection of Coastal Art
August 15, 2019
August 01, 2020
Located 10 miles off the coast of Maine, the remote and rustic island of Monhegan has drawn artis...
Art from the New Britain Public & Parochial Schools 2020
June 01, 2020
June 30, 2020
Every year the Museum displays hundreds of artworks by New Britain students in the annual Art fro...
2020 Floral Expressions
May 08, 2020
May 10, 2020
The New Britain Museum of American Art continues the tradition of Floral Expressions with a celeb...
Kara Walker: Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)
January 24, 2020
February 23, 2020
Originally presented in January of 2020,
Kara Walker: Harper’s Pi...
Chairway to Heaven: A Celebration of Shaker Seating Furniture
July 07, 2019
February 02, 2020
The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, known today as the Shakers, came to...
For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design
October 17, 2019
January 26, 2020
Founded
in New York City in 1825 by artists including Samuel F.B. Morse, Asher
B. Durand, and T...
Bill Viola: The Raft
October 10, 2019
January 05, 2020
This October, the NBMAA will present The Raft, a powerful video installation by one of t...
In Bloom: The Botanical Paintings of T. Merrill Prentice
March 25, 2019
October 17, 2019
This March, the New Britain Museum of America will present an array of botanical paintin...
Expanded Field: Photography from the Collection of the NBMAA
August 02, 2019
September 29, 2019
The New Britain Museum of American Art began
collecting photography in the 1970s, and over the c...
NEW/NOW: Pablo Helguera
April 05, 2019
September 15, 2019
This April, the New Britain Museum of American Art presents the work of Pablo Helguera as part of...
Nor'Easter: The 49th Annual Juried Exhibition
June 22, 2019
July 14, 2019
EXHIBITION
Saturday, June 22–Sunday, July 14, 2019
RECEPTIO...
Line and Curve: The Ellsworth Kelly and Jack Shear Shaker Collection from Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon with Prints by Ellsworth Kelly
July 13, 2018
June 30, 2019
When the American painter, sculptor, and printmaker Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) first encountered...
The Beyond: Georgia O'Keeffe and Contemporary Art
February 22, 2019
June 02, 2019
Enormous flowers, luscious colors, desert landscapes, feminine forms, and still lifes. Georgia O’...
Neil Jenney: American Realist
November 02, 2018
March 17, 2019
Neil Jenney (b. 1945, Torrington, CT) emerged in the late 1960s with a unique brand of realist pa...
Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album
October 18, 2018
January 27, 2019
“I wanted to document something. I wanted to leave something that I thought would be a record...
Looking for America: A For Freedoms 50 State Initiative
October 15, 2018
January 06, 2019
This summer, the NBMAA launched a community-wide call for submissions, for people of all ages and...
Pictures at an Exhibition
September 27, 2018
November 30, 2018
From September through November 2018, the NBMAA will present Pictures at an Exhibition, ...
NEW/NOW: Paul Baylock
May 17, 2018
October 21, 2018
During the early part of the 20th century, New Britain was known as the "Hardware City” and the "...
2018 Floral Expressions
October 05, 2018
October 07, 2018
The New Britain Museum of American Art continues the tradition of Floral Expressions with a celeb...
Art in Farmington Village
August 03, 2018
October 07, 2018
Presenting over 60 paintings and works on paper by more than 20 artists, Art in Farmington Vi...
Architecture as Muse: American Skyline
March 30, 2018
September 16, 2018
In 2017, the New Britain Museum of American Art introduced Architecture as Muse, a serie...
Boundary Conditions
March 09, 2014
August 31, 2018
The Museum is delighted to announce plans to unveil the third site-specific installation for Febr...
Nor'Easter: The 48th Annual Juried Exhibition
June 23, 2018
July 15, 2018
The Nor’Easter is the New Britain Museum of American Art’s opportunity to expose contemp...
2018 Art from the New Britain Public & Parochial Schools
May 23, 2018
June 04, 2018
The Museum is excited to present its 28th installment of local student work in the upcoming exhib...
Focus on: Shaker Woodenware (Part II)
September 03, 2017
May 30, 2018
The Museum is thrilled to present the second installment of Shaker Wooden objects of many types and ...
NEW/NOW Francisca Benítez
November 30, 2017
April 29, 2018
In her forthcoming exhibition at the NBMAA, New York-based artist Francisca Benítez (b. 1974, San...
2018 Art from the Berlin Public Schools
April 17, 2018
April 22, 2018
Featuring exceptional works by students in Berlin, the Museum is proud to host Art from the Berli...
2018 Art from the Plainville Community Schools
April 03, 2018
April 08, 2018
The Museum is honored to collaborate with the Plainville Community Schools for the first time to ...
Architecture as Muse: The Grand Tour
May 07, 2017
March 01, 2018
In the late 1600s, the "Grand Tour" emerged as a cultural phenomenon, in which young men and women o...
Ghana Paints Hollywood
November 09, 2017
February 19, 2018
This November, the New Britain Museum of American Art presents Ghana Paints Hollywood—a ...
Harry Everett Townsend: Illustrations of a World War I Artist
September 20, 2017
January 07, 2018
The New Britain Museum of American Art is honored to partner with the Connecticut State Library in H...
California Dreaming: Ed Moses, Billy Al Bengston & Ed Ruscha
June 23, 2017
October 15, 2017
In 1950s Los Angeles, a shift occurred in the visual arts that would come to define a uniquely or...
Samuel F.B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" & the Art of Invention
June 17, 2017
October 15, 2017
The New Britain Museum of American Art is pleased to present Samuel F.B. Morse’s “Gallery of ...
Focus On: Shaker Woodenware (Part 1)
December 03, 2016
August 27, 2017
The Shakers believe that manual labor is a form of worship, an act of serving God, and that it shoul...
2017 Art from the New Britain Public & Parochial Schools
May 18, 2017
May 28, 2017
The Museum is excited to present its 27th installment of local student work in the upcoming exhib...
New Media: William DeLottie
February 17, 2017
May 28, 2017
The Museum’s forthcoming New Media exhibition presents a multi-media installation by Connecticut-...
Nor'Easter: The 47th Annual Juried Exhibition
April 29, 2017
May 28, 2017
The Nor’Easter is the New Britain Museum of American Art’s opportunity to expose contemp...
Howard Rackliffe
February 03, 2017
May 14, 2017
The New Britain Museum of American Art will present a retrospective of New Britain-born artist Howar...
Ansel Adams: Yosemite Valley
December 08, 2016
April 30, 2017
Celebrating the National Park Service’s centennial year, this exhibition presents Portfolio III: ...
2017 Art from the Berlin Public Schools
April 18, 2017
April 23, 2017
Featuring exceptional works by students in Berlin, the Museum is proud to host Art from the Berli...
Vistas del Sur: Traveler Artists' Landscapes of Latin America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection
January 20, 2017
April 16, 2017
Vistas del Sur features more than 150 rarely seen paintings, photographs, works on paper...
NEW/NOW: Sanford Biggers
September 29, 2016
January 23, 2017
The New Britain Museum of American Art is thrilled to showcase the work of internationally acclai...
New Media: Kevin Kelly
September 16, 2016
January 15, 2017
Brooklyn-based artist Kevin Kelly is most known for his non-linear videos, which weave together narr...
As We See It: The Collection of Gail and Ernst von Metzsch
October 21, 2016
January 08, 2017
As We See It: The Collection of Gail and Ernst von Metzsch will feature over 80 painting...
2016 Holiday Decorating
December 01, 2016
January 03, 2017
This year, we continue our tradition of holiday decorating in the galleries! We are pleased to sh...
The Shakers: Focus On: Enfield, Connecticut
June 14, 2015
November 20, 2016
As part of the Museum’s Art & Education Expansion and reinstallation of the permanent collect...
Masterpieces of The Sanford B.D. Low Illustration Collection
July 08, 2016
October 02, 2016
One of the most unique and exceptional aspects of the NBMAA’s permanent collection of over 8,000 ...
New Media: Maya Jeffereis
June 11, 2016
September 11, 2016
Maya Jeffereis is a New York-based artist working in video, performance, and installation.
...
Eric Aho: An Unfinished Point in a Vast Surrounding
April 22, 2016
September 11, 2016
Audio Guide
Join the Museum in celebrating an exhibition of recent paintings by
artist E...
Cycle of Life in Print: Salvador Dalí
March 04, 2016
June 26, 2016
The New Britain Museum of American art is thrilled to present works by one of the most celebrated...
2016 Floral Expressions
June 16, 2016
June 19, 2016
Inspired by select artworks in the permanent collection, the Museum’s galleries will display flor...
NEW/NOW: Clinton Deckert
February 20, 2016
June 07, 2016
Join the Museum in welcoming surreal abstractionist Clinton Deckert to the Cheney Gallery as the nex...
Andy Warhol to Sally Mann: The Collection of Kevin McNamara and Craig Nowak
January 25, 2016
April 17, 2016
A brilliant selection of prints and photographs by innovative artists such as Alexander Calder, John...
All Time Favorites of the Low Illustration Collection
September 09, 2015
February 21, 2016
A preview to the summer 2016 exhibition, Masterpieces of the Low Collection of American Illus...
Nor'Easter: The 46th Annual Juried Members Exhibition
January 09, 2016
February 14, 2016
Nor’Easter: The 46th Annual Juried Members Exhibition is the NBMAA’s opportunity to present c...
NEW/NOW: Kate O'Donovan Cook
November 07, 2015
February 14, 2016
Kate O’Donovan Cook is both artist and subject within her works. She creates images in which the ...
Stone Roberts: Street Scenes, Still Lifes, and Figures
October 02, 2015
January 17, 2016
Stone Roberts’ contemporary figurative paintings celebrate the commonplace by attention to detail an...
Holiday Decorating
December 05, 2015
January 04, 2016
The Holiday decorating committee has been hard at work and is pleased to announce a splendid lineup ...
Director’s Favorites: 1999–2015
October 17, 2015
January 03, 2016
Celebrating Director Douglas Hyland and his 16 years of distinguished achievement at the New Britain...
New Media: Julie Orser
August 22, 2015
January 03, 2016
Inaugurating the new, larger New Media & Digital Art space in the McKernan Gallery will be Lo...
ART TODAY: 2000–Present
August 09, 2015
December 13, 2015
The New Britain Museum of American Art’s construction of a new wing has given the Museum a unique...
NEW/NOW: Katja Loher: How can we cool down the gilded sunbeams?
June 06, 2015
November 01, 2015
NEW/NOW artist Katja Loher is regarded as a leader amongst the next generality of video artists, ...
Tom Yost: A Modern Realist
May 15, 2015
August 13, 2015
A PROVOCATIVE GROUPING OF OILS DISPLAYS YOST’S MASTERLY AND FRESH APPROACH TO MODERN DAY REALIST ...
New Media: Catherine Ross: Laugh Track
February 14, 2015
August 05, 2015
New Media artist Catherine Ross frames instances on video that often go unnoticed in their original ...
The Enchanting Jewels of Elizabeth Gage
April 25, 2015
July 26, 2015
The exhibition, The Enchanting Jewels of Elizabeth Gage, will consist of approximately 250 pieces of...
Art from the New Britain Public & Parochial Schools
May 21, 2015
May 31, 2015
For the 25th year, the creative output of our youngest artists will be celebrated in Art from the Ne...
NEW/NOW: Karl Lund
February 28, 2015
May 31, 2015
Lund’s exhibition, Angry Robots Liquefied My Brain, features narrative paintings that de...
Otis Kaye: Money, Mystery, and Mastery
January 17, 2015
May 10, 2015
The exhibition features thirty-four works that display a mastery of the highly realistic, trompe ...
Art from the Berlin Public Schools
April 21, 2015
April 26, 2015
For the 6th year, the Museum is honored to collaborate with the Berlin Public schools featuring a...
Art from the Plainville Community Schools
April 14, 2015
April 19, 2015
The Museum is honored to collaborate with the Plainville Community Schools for the first time to ...
Over Life's Waters: The Coastal Art Collection of Charles and Irene Hamm
January 31, 2015
April 12, 2015
This winter, the New Britain Museum of American Art proudly showcases the Hamm’s labor of love in...
NEW/NOW: Titus Kaphar, The Vesper Project
January 11, 2015
February 22, 2015
The Vesper Project is a massive sculptural statement—an encompassing installation, in wh...
New Media: John O'Donnell
September 16, 2014
February 08, 2015
Psychedelic Pantry, a new media installation created by John O’Donnell, points to moment...
Nor'Easter: The 45th Annual Juried Members Exhibition
January 10, 2015
January 25, 2015
The exhibition is a prime opportunity for the Museum to highlight the exceptional work of emergin...
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