Wadsworth Atheneum

...aunt. In the early 1970s, Welling impressed Michael Wetstone, a student in Welling's art class titled "Drawing in the City," at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Welling always encouraged observation and creativity, Wetstone said. "He was really...

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The Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest public art museum in the United States, with significant holdings of French and American Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School landscapes, modernist masterpieces and contemporary works, as well as...

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...visual idiom. The work, sold at the Straw Market in Nassau, was discovered by a New York collector in the 1970s, and in 1985 the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford mounted the exhibition "Paint by Amos Ferguson'' - taking the artist's...

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...win the high school, open and masters titles, was honored at the Thanksgiving Day road race last year. More information on the race... The Wadsworth Atheneum will show "Running the Sahara," a National Geographic documentary produced and...

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THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING HARTFORD, Conn. -For decades, Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum displayed three portraits believed to be the work of Rembrandt van Rijn. But over the years, each was discredited, attributed...

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...reads: "The area is home to the United States' oldest continuously publishing newspaper (the Courant), the oldest public art museum (the Wadsworth Atheneum), and the third-oldest institution of higher education on the continent (Yale)."

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...collection has been reinstalled at Wadsworth August 19, 2009 Some old friends are back in town and you can drop in to see them. The Wadsworth Atheneum's wonderful Hudson River School collection, one of the finest collections anywhere...

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...Day. Oh, say, can you save? Check out: Connecticut's capital, Hartford, is also one of America's most historic cities. The Wadsworth Athenaeum, the country's oldest public art museum, has amassed a permanent collection of more than...

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...at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts, studied art history and became a curator at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, where he arranged a major abstract expressionist exhibition, then startled the art world with his show...

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...oldest public art museum notified its board of trustees this week that he plans to step down. Willard Holmes, who has led the Wadsworth Atheneum since 2003, said he believes it needs someone willing to make a three- to five-year...

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