Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Wadsworth Atheneum is an art museum in Hartford, Connecticut.The Wadsworth is noted for its collections of European Baroque art, ancient Egyptian and Classical bronzes, French and American Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School landscapes, modernist masterpieces and contemporary works, as well as collections of early American furniture and decorative arts.
c. 1595. Medium. Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 92.5 cm × 127.8 cm (36.4 in × 50.3 in) Location. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut. Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy (or The Ecstasy of Saint Francis) is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It is now in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut.
1826. Medium. Oil on Canvas. Dimensions. 64.2 cm × 89.7 cm (25.25 in × 35.31 in) Location. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut. Kaaterskill Falls is an 1826 oil-on-canvas painting by British-American painter Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School. [1] It depicts the Kaaterskill Falls in Upstate New York.
114.8 cm × 143.8 cm (45.2 in × 56.6 in) Location. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut. Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach (1938) is a painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. This work belongs to a group of paintings by Dalí that instantiate an optical illusion called the double, multiple, or ambiguous image.
It’s clear that glass art has stretched in new directions over the last few decades, taking on new shapes and meanings. A new exhibit at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, “Fired Up: Glass ...
As its collections expanded, the historical society moved into a room in the newly built Wadsworth Athenaeum in 1843. By 1844, the collections had grown to include 250 bound volumes of newspapers, 6,000 pamphlets, and various collections of manuscripts, coins, portraits and furniture. New officers were elected including David D. Field.
Daniel Wadsworth. Daniel Wadsworth (1771–1848) of Hartford, Connecticut, was an American amateur artist and architect, arts patron and traveler. He is most remembered as the founder of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in his native city. View of Monte Video, Seat of Daniel Wadsworth, Esq., oil on panel, 1828, Thomas Cole.
One of the largest collections of paintings by artists of the Hudson River School is at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut. Some of the most notable works in the Atheneum's collection are 13 landscapes by Thomas Cole and 11 by Hartford native Frederic Edwin Church. They were personal friends of the museum's founder, Daniel Wadsworth.