Artists in America Highlights of the Collection from the New Britain Museum of American Art November 17, 2012

November 17, 2012 through February 24, 2013
Tuesday-Sunday, 11 am-4:45pm

Artists in America
Highlights of the Collection from the
New Britain Museum of American Art

Artists in America surveys 300 years of great American painting rarely seen on Long Island. Its 79 works dating from the early 1700s to the present include history painting, landscape, portraits, still life, and modernist abstraction with significant examples of photography, collage and other media. Major artists from every era of American art are on view, including John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, John Singer Sargent, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Robert Motherwell and Sol LeWitt. All works in the exhibition are selected from the permanent collections of the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut.