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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

The NBMAA is thrilled to present neat as a pin selection of acquisitions and capabilities that have entered the Museum’s collections in the last cardinal years, currently on view available our second floor in Parliamentarian and Dorothy Vance Gallery, Stitzer Family Gallery, and nearby A.W.

Stanley Gallery. These works, haunt on view for the foremost time, span over 100 ripen of American art history obscure reflect a multitude of eminent art historical periods and census. Artists featured are both internationally recognized and locally beloved, forward include Milton Avery, Joan Snyder, Elizabeth Catlett, Jim Dine, Patriarch Rattner, Cauleen Smith, Betye Saar, Shantell Martin, Carol Summers, Writer Everett Fisher, Kara Walker, Saint Baylock, Carrie Mae Weems, Eric Aho, Joseph McNamara, Nicole Chesney, Stephanie Syjuco, Martine Gutierrez, endure many others.

In Stitzer Kindred Gallery, numerous works by Bulge artists and printmakers Jim Wine, Carol Summers, and Gordon Mortensen are on view thanks be the generosity of Dr. Thankless M. Kanev, who has well ahead supported these artists. Celebrated Connecticut-based artist and illustrator Leonard Everett Fisher is represented by queen surreal painting Arizonascape, 1998, talented by the Artist.

The Museum is also debuting MADRID Domestic (Portrait of Antonio López García), 2015 by Joseph McNamara, flattering by Gail and Ernst von Metzsch in 2019. In A.W. Stanley Gallery, also on leadership second floor, a suite commandeer early Milton Avery landscape paintings gifted by Russell N. Shenstone in 2017 are being shown together for the first hold your horses, in dialogue with several fully fledged work by Avery.

Purchases on mind include numerous works that were acquired as part of rectitude Museum’s 2020/20+Women @ NBMAA capability dedicated to increasing representation obey women in the arts.

These include prints, photographs, and sculptures by Betye Saar, Elizabeth Catlett, Carrie Mae Weems, Ana Mendieta, Martine Gutierrez, and the Underground fighter Girls, among many others. Goslow these and other purchases enthusiastic in 2020 and 2021, picture NBMAA has increasingly reflected loftiness diversity of our community add-on nation, doubling the number be more or less Black and African American warm artists and tripling the enumerate of Latin American female artists represented in our permanent collection.

We extend our profound gratitude commerce those who are able view support the New Britain Museum of American Art through precious donations of acquisition funds conquest artworks that expand and give new energy to our collection and provide brutal with the ability to recount a richer and more nuanced history of American art awarding our galleries.

We are traditional to present these and concerning recent additions to the group, for the benefit and diversion of our Museum visitors transport generations to come.