Matthew Hargraves

Congratulations to the Frick on a great reopening tonight. A spectacular expansion and stunning reinstallation of masterpieces in all media.

An extremely stocky and muscular ox, painted by George Garrard in 1813.

"they hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak"

our beef:

NEW ACQUISITION! Hartford-born Frederic Church’s oil on paper study of a meteor procession seen over the skies of Catskill, NY in July 1860 — the finest Church in private hands and now at The Wadsworth • Frederic Church, ‘The Meteor,’ 1860, oil on paper, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.

Fabulous loan from the Palazzo Barberini while Caravaggio’s ‘St Francis in Ecstasy’ is in Rome, Holbein’s (with workshop) portrait of Henry VIII from 1540, now on view at the Wadsworth.

Celia Paul faces the ghosts of her past | Apollo Magazine In recent portraits and seascapes the painter ponders time and memory, and the legacy of Lucian Freud and co., writes Matthew Sperling

In a new show of portraits and nature scenes, we find Celia Paul exploring time, memory and the ghosts of Freud and co., writes Matthew Sperling

The Wadsworth’s Van Gogh self-portrait, now on temporary loan to MFA Boston for its exhibition “Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits” opening March 30.

New Acquisition! Louise (Mayer) Ochsé’s mask of Claude Debussy, probably made for the Debussy Festival held in Paris in 1932. Tragically, Ochsé and her husband were murdered in Auschwitz by the Nazis • Louise Ochsé (Belgian, 1884–1944),
“Mask of Claude Debussy, probably 1932, cast by Claude Valsuani

Sinjerli Variation 4 (1968)
Frank Stella
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The A. Everett Austin House, Hartford, CT

Yesterday we toured the A. Everett "Chick" Austin House in Hartford, CT. It is 86 feet wide and only 18 feet deep. It is part of the Wadsworth Atheneum's collection.
#Hartford #WadsworthAtheneum #HistoricHomes #NationalHistoricRegister

New at the Wadsworth Atheneum: Delft boar’s head tureen (c1750-60). The look of resignation on the boar’s face! 🙄 #18thc

Francisco de Zurbaran
The Martyrdom of St Serapion
1628

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford

Harriet Hosmer’s sculpture Zenobia in Chains in a gallery full of Hudson River School art in the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford.

It never gets old.

Confira a capa alternativa do álbum “Melodrama", da Lorde, criada por Sam McKinniss e exposta no Wadsworth Atheneum em Connecticut, Estados Unidos.

Divine Geometry | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Islamic Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum November 27, 2024–April 13, 2025 Divine Geometry is a multimedia exhibition that explores the Islamic arts

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An Astonishing, Rarely Seen Islamic Art Collection Goes on Display At the oldest public art museum in the United States, miniatures, glassware and other intricately created works transport visitors around the world

An Astonishing, Rarely Seen Islamic Art Collection Goes on Display at Connecticut’s Wadsworth Atheneum

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Hey Bluesky, what are three of your favorite museums?

1. The Prado, Madrid
2. Galleria Borghese, Rome
3. a five-way tie among my favorite small museums: Frick Collection & Morgan Library, NYC; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; & Phillips Collection, Washington

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, active in France, 1881–1973), The Painter, Boisgeloup, 13 May 1934, oil on canvas, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund, 1953.215

#PicassoCelebration
#pablopicasso
#picasso
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@thewadsworth

“Pereat” (“let him perish”) Orazio Andreoni, Rome, 1892, marble, sandstone, bronze

looking through some old photos, really appreciating the big mood on this Neoroman statue at the Wadsworth Atheneum. The figure on the right especially—I feel ya

“Young Man with a Sword”, c.1645 by Eustache Le Sueur (1616–1655). French artist. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut. oil on canvas

Photographs from my time at Wadsworth Atheneum, in Hartford Connecticut.

Photographs from my time at Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut.

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French, 1780-1867), Portrait of Louis-Pierre Haudebourt. Pencil on paper. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Bequest of Susannah Shickman, 2023.53.12.

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Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
The Wallace Collection, London
City Museum, St. Louis

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Claude Monet
The Beach at Trouville, 1870
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford (Connecticut)
Nitess💤

Daniel Maclise, “The Disenchantment of Bottom,” 1832 (Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford), portraying a scene from "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" in which Nick Bottom, who had been given a donkey head by the mischievous Puck, is released from his spell

Joan Miró, Acrobatic Dancers, 1940, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford 1958.263;

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Léon Bakst (Russian, 1866-1924), Costume Design for Vaslav Nijinsky as the Faun, from "L'Après-Midi d'un Faune", 1912. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund, 1935.37.

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A boy wearing blue pants and jacket with white shirt naps on the grass with a straw hat covering his face

The Nap (Boy Sleeping on the Grass or La Sieste) by Gustave Caillebotte, 1877, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, (Hartford, CT)

#Art #ModernArt #Impressionism

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A bronze statue which has been polished to a high shine, of a striding figure, photographed from behind so it looks like they're walking away from the viewer

You can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man, no time for talk 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

"Striding Mars", by Giambologna, cast in Florence in 1580, and now a new acquisition for The Wadsworth Atheneum, in America 😁