Art Exhibitions: Connecticut
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| Bridgeport | • Housatonic Museum of Art | ||
| Brooklyn | • New England Center for the Contemporary Arts | ||
| Fairfield | • Walsh Art Gallery at Fairfield University | ||
| Farmington | • Hill-Stead Museum | ||
| Greenwich | • Bruce Museum of Arts and Science | ||
| Hartford | • Wadsworth Atheneum | ||
| Middletown | • Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University | ||
| New Britain | • New Britain Museum of American Art | ||
| New Haven | • Yale Center for British Art | ||
| • Yale University Art Gallery | |||
| New London | • Lyman Allyn Art Museum | ||
| Norwich | • Slater Museum at Norwich Free Academy | ||
| Old Lyme | • Florence Griswold Museum | ||
| Ridgefield | • Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum | ||
| Stamford | • The Stamford Museum and Nature Center | ||
| Storrs | • William Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut | ||
| Waterbury | • Mattatuck Museum | ||
| Windsor | • Mercy Gallery at the Loomis Chaffee School | ||
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New Britain Museum of American Art
Searching the Horizon: The Real American West 1830-1920, Art from the Bank of America Collection
Nov. 26, 2011 – Mar. 4, 2012
Searching the Horizon: The Real American West 1830-1920 explores the vastness and variety of the West through the numerous ways artists chose to depict it, whether to chronicle current events, or to capture the culture and traditions of the region’s native inhabitants, the American Indians. The people of the 18th and 19th century American West, their work, their lifestyles, and cultures, hold a prominent place in the American imagination. People across the globe are familiar with the western cowboy, the Plains Indian, and the cavalry officer without ever having met one. This global awareness of the peoples of the West is due, in large part, to Western art.
Left: Edward Sheriff Curtis, A Zuni Woman, Plate No. 614, from North American Indian portfolio 17, n.d., Photogravure, 22 x 18 in., Bank of America Collection
Divided into four thematic sections; Settlement, Landscape, Native Americans and Urbanization and Industry, Searching the Horizon features more than 100 works of art and objects that reflect the development of the nation from the 1830s through the early twentieth century. Through paintings, works on paper, photography and rare objects and artifacts, the exhibition reveals aspects of the West that both reinforce and refute the familiar mythology, offering the contemporary museum visitor the opportunity to explore a range of interpretations of the American West.
A 20-page brochure, with an essay by American West scholar Dr. Nicolas Witschi, will be available. Sponsored by Bank of America.
