Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Nothing, Then Everything: Power Boothe at Lyman Allyn
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonMay 11 – August 4, 2024 Nothing, Then Everything brings together more than a dozen of Power Boothe’s large-scale abstract paintings in dialogue with his smaller canvases and works on paper, exploring the artist’s work and process. Using a grid structure as a starting point, Boothe engages color, line, shape, texture, and rhythm in his paintings, […]
Lecture: Steve Manuel: Whaling, Religion and Royalty: New London and Lahaina
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonThe Lyman Allyn Art Museum is pleased to partner with the Thames River Heritage Park to host their 2024 lecture series, Stories from the Park: Island Affairs of the Thames. New London, the “Whaling City” was the third largest whaling port in the country during the height of whaling in the United States and for a […]
Lecture: Deborah Donovan: New London “Whalers” and Isles of the Southern Ocean
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonThe Lyman Allyn Art Museum is pleased to partner with the Thames River Heritage Park to host their 2024 lecture series, Stories from the Park: Island Affairs of the Thames. Bound for Desolation – New London “Whalers” and Isles of the Southern Ocean: Local historian Deborah Donovan shares stories about New London “whalers,” who harvested massive […]
Gallery Talk- Norma Morgan in Context with Dr. Bruce Weber at Lyman Allyn
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonIn conjunction with the current exhibition: Norma Morgan in Context (Now through April 7) Join us for a gallery talk for Art in Play: Leo Jensen with Curator Tanya Pohrt. Explore the humor and nuance of Jensen’s works. Recognized for his dynamic contributions to pop art, Connecticut artist Leo Jensen (American, 1926–2019) drew on his experiences […]
Gallery Talk- Art in Play: Leo Jensen at Lyman Allyn
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonIn conjunction with the current exhibition: Art in Play: Leo Jensen (Now through April 14) Join us for a gallery talk for Art in Play: Leo Jensen with Curator Tanya Pohrt. Explore the humor and nuance of Jensen’s works. Recognized for his dynamic contributions to pop art, Connecticut artist Leo Jensen (American, 1926–2019) drew on his […]
Lecture: A Cannon to the Canon? Case Studies in Moving Beyond the Textbook at Lyman Allyn
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonThis program will introduce the NEH grant-funded project, “Not your grandfather’s art history: A BIPOC Reader,” a collaboration with Smarthistory.org led by Olivia Chiang, that includes 20 essays authored largely by scholars of color and which aims to broaden the scope of the traditional art historical canon. During the program, Chiang will examine two case […]
Lecture: Matt Warshauer: New London, the Sugar Trade, and Slavery in the West Indies
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonThe Lyman Allyn Art Museum is pleased to partner with the Thames River Heritage Park to host their 2024 lecture series, Stories from the Park: Island Affairs of the Thames. Connecticut’s Sweet Tooth – New London, the Sugar Trade and Slavery in the West Indies: Professor Matt Warshauer shares stories about the Thames River region when it […]
Beatrice Cuming: Connecticut Precisionist at Lyman Allyn
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonNow through May 26, 2024: Artist Beatrice Cuming (American 1903-1974) celebrated modernity in her dynamic depictions of urban life in the 1930s, ‘40s, and early ‘50s. Painting in a Precisionist mode, she merged elements of European modernism with American subject matter to explore and elevate regional industry and the built landscape. For more information