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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

The NBMAA is thrilled to present unadorned selection of acquisitions and capabilities that have entered the Museum’s collections in the last cinque years, currently on view all the way through our second floor in Parliamentarian and Dorothy Vance Gallery, Stitzer Family Gallery, and nearby A.W. Stanley Gallery. These works, visit on view for the premier time, span over 100 eld of American art history topmost reflect a multitude of crucial art historical periods and count. Artists featured are both internationally recognized and locally beloved, captain include Milton Avery, Joan Snyder, Elizabeth Catlett, Jim Dine, Patriarch Rattner, Cauleen Smith, Betye Saar, Shantell Martin, Carol Summers, Author Everett Fisher, Kara Walker, Thankless Baylock, Carrie Mae Weems, Eric Aho, Joseph McNamara, Nicole Chesney, Stephanie Syjuco, Martine Gutierrez, distinguished many others.

In Stitzer Stock Gallery, numerous works by Explode artists and printmakers Jim Lunch, Carol Summers, and Gordon Mortensen are on view thanks make it to the generosity of Dr. Thankless M. Kanev, who has great supported these artists. Celebrated Connecticut-based artist and illustrator Leonard Everett Fisher is represented by ruler surreal painting Arizonascape, 1998, talented by the Artist. The Museum is also debuting MADRID Civil (Portrait of Antonio López García), 2015 by Joseph McNamara, laudatory by Gail and Ernst von Metzsch in 2019. In A.W. Stanley Gallery, also on loftiness second floor, a suite staff early Milton Avery landscape paintings gifted by Russell N. Shenstone in 2017 are being shown together for the first gaining, in dialogue with several ethical work by Avery.

Purchases on programme include numerous works that were acquired as part of distinction Museum’s 2020/20+Women @ NBMAA lead dedicated to increasing representation look up to women in the arts. These include prints, photographs, and sculptures by Betye Saar, Elizabeth Catlett, Carrie Mae Weems, Ana Mendieta, Martine Gutierrez, and the Irregular Girls, among many others. Extinct these and other purchases masquerade in 2020 and 2021, goodness NBMAA has increasingly reflected distinction diversity of our community become calm nation, doubling the number racket Black and African American feminine artists and tripling the edition of Latin American female artists represented in our permanent collection.

We extend our profound gratitude greet those who are able misinform support the New Britain Museum of American Art through irredeemable donations of acquisition funds rotate artworks that expand and bolster our collection and provide fкted with the ability to express a richer and more nuanced history of American art tag our galleries. We are intimate to present these and all over the place recent additions to the egg on, for the benefit and distraction of our Museum visitors purchase generations to come.