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| Name | Lyman Allyn Art Museum |
| Brief Description | Art Museum |
| Type | Attraction |
| Category | Mystic Country Connecticut Museum |
| Description | Lyman Allyn Art Museum was established in 1926 by Harriet Upson Allyn in memory of her father, Lyman Allyn, as a place for local citizens to learn about art and culture. Housed in a handsome Neo-Classical building designed by Charles A. Platt, the permanent collection includes over 10,000 paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, furniture and decorative arts, with an emphasis on American art from the 18th through 20th centuries.
2009 Exhibitions:
Elizabeth Enders: Landscape/Language/Line
March 7 through August 23, 2009
This is the first retrospective of the work of New York artist Elizabeth Enders. Curated by Charlotta Kotik, Curator Emerita of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, this exhibition features 4 decades of Enders’s paintings and drawings from the 1970s through today. An exhibition catalogue, with essays by Museum Director Dr. Nancy Stula and Kotik, as well as an important interview with Enders by renowned art historian Irving Sandler, accompanies the exhibition.
What's the Word: Words and Symbols in Art from the Permanent Collection of Lyman Allyn Art Museum
On view throughout 2009
Many artists incorporate language into their work in ways that force us to consider its meaning in relation to the visual experience. This exhibition features works from the permanent collection of the Lyman Allyn Art Museum and explores artists’ relationships to text in their images as well as those who employ text as image.
Ajiaco: Spirituality in Contemporary Cuban Art
September 19, 2009 through February 21, 2010
Curated by Gail Gelburd, Ph.D., Professor of Art History at Eastern Connecticut State University, this exhibition explores the rich ajiaco, or stew, of the current art and artists emerging from the diverse cultures |
| Address | 625 Williams Street |
| CSZ | New London, CT 06320 |
| Cost | $8 adults, $7 Seniors and students, under 12 free |
| Hours | Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm, Sunday 1 - 5pm, closed Mondays and holidays |
| Website | www.lymanallyn.org |
| Additional Information | Additional Information |
| Information Request | Request Mystic Country Connecticut Visitor Information |
| Last Updated | 5/5/2009 |
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