COLLECTING
Virtual Program- Collecting Perspectives: Cape Cod Canal: Haverhill Center
Join us for Collecting Perspectives, captivating conversations on the stories and connections behind Historic New England Collections at the Haverhill Center: tonight, the Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal Collection. Historic New England Senior Curator of Library and Archives Lorna Condon joins Marilyn Keith Daly, project manager for the Haverhill Center, and guests, artist and […]
Virtual Program- Collecting Perspectives: Stories of Place: Haverhill Center
Join us for Collecting Perspectives, captivating conversations on the stories and connections behind Historic New England Collections at the Haverhill Center: tonight, looking ahead to November’s Historic New England Summit, a conversation on the places we preserve and the stories we tell about them. Award-winning historian of American art and design R. Tripp Evans, Black […]
The Arethusa Collection From Italian Renaissance to Contemporary British Art: Hillstead
Hillstead Museum 35 Mountain Rd, FarmingtonNovember 16, 2024 through March 30, 2025 Tony Yurgaitis, owner of Arethusa Farm in Litchfield, has been collecting since boyhood. From Renaissance Madonnas to contemporary paintings, Picasso ceramics to Murano glass, and folkloric weathervanes to Danish silver, Tony has acquired works of art of all kinds from all around the world. He is a collector […]
Conversation with Collector Tony Yurgaitis at Hillstead
Hillstead Museum 35 Mountain Rd, FarmingtonHillstead hosts Tony Yurgaitis, owner of Arethusa Farm in Litchfield, for a conservation about art collecting with our Executive Director, Dr. Anna Swinbourne. Tony’s personal story, which fuses appreciation of art of all kinds with a passion for farming, is a familiar one at Hill-Stead. Tony and members of the Pope family, who also designed […]