Past Exhibitions

Cutting Edge: Noguchi’s Aluminum Monolith Sesshu, 1958
January 22–March 15, 2020

William Turnbull: Head, Mask, Horse
September 19, 2019 – March 10, 2020

Giorgio Vasari, Salvator Rosa, Giambattista Tiepolo: Italian Master Drawings from the Collection
Through March 1, 2020

Kahlil Joseph / MATRIX 183 / BLKNWS
November 9, 2019–March 1, 2020

Tradition and the Avant-Garde: Highlights of Ballets Russes Design
September 27–January 21, 2020

Afrocosmologies: American Reflections
October 19, 2019–January 20, 2020

The Mathematics of Elegance
November 22, 2019–January 12, 2020

Couture at Court
September 14–November 10, 2019

From Expressionism to Surrealism: Highlights of Modern Art from the Collection
June 5–October 20, 2019

Be Seen: Portrait Photography Since Stonewall
June 22–September 15, 2019

Portraying Independence
Through September 16, 2019

Tom Burr / MATRIX 182 / Hinged Figures
June 6–September 8, 2019

Giorgione’s La Vecchia
May 15–August 4, 2019

Nature Through Their Eyes: American Moderns on Paper
March 23–June 23, 2019

Hartford Youth Art Renaissance
April 27–May 26, 2019

Sean Scully: Landline
February 23–May 19, 2019

Emily Mae Smith / MATRIX 181
February 7–May 5, 2019

American Moderns in Watercolor: Edward Hopper and His Contemporaries
December 22, 2018 – March 17, 2019

Bed Furnishings in Early America, An Intimate Look
September 26, 2018–January 27, 2019

Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s
October 20, 2018–January 13, 2019

Bouke de Vries / MATRIX 180

War and Pieces
October 4, 2018–January 6, 2019

Ai Weiwei: Grapes
August 21-November 26, 2018

Conrad Shawcross / MATRIX 179
June 21, 2018-October 21,2018

Frederic Church: A Painter’s Pilgrimage
June 2,2018-August 26, 2018

David Smith: Figures & Dwelling
January 27, 2018-August 19, 2018

Herbert Ferber: Space in Tension
January 27, 2018-July 29, 2018

Fine Prints and Drawings by Rembrandt and His Contemporaries
March 10, 2018–July 15, 2018

Mirror, Mirror
December 1, 2017–June 3, 2018

Gorey’s Worlds
February 10, 2018–May 6, 2018

Museum Menagerie
July 22, 2017–April 1, 2018

Sèvres’ Vase de l’Adour: A Closer Look
February 18, 2017—February 25, 2018

Sam Messer / MATRIX 178
Denis the Pirate
October 5, 2017 – February 11, 2018

Sublime North: Romantic Painters Discover Norway
Paintings from the Collection of Asbjørn Lunde
September 7, 2017­–January 15, 2018

Morgan: Mind of the Collector
September 23, 2017–December 31, 2017

Keith Sonnier
Three Neons / Three Decades
January 28, 2017–October 8, 2017

Mika Tajima / MATRIX 177
After Life
June 1, 2017–September 3, 2017

Simply Splendid: Rediscovering American Design
May 13, 2017–August 13, 2017

Hand-Painted Pop! Art and Appropriation, 1961 to Now
April 29, 2017–August 13, 2017

John Trumbull: Visualizing American Independence
November 5, 2016–July 23, 2017

Valeska Soares / MATRIX 176
February 2, 2017–May 7, 2017

Utamaro and the Lure of Japan
January 7, 2017–March 26, 2017

Miniature World in White Gold: Meissen Porcelain by Johann Joachim Kaendler
January 16, 2016–January 16, 2017

Dulce Chacón / MATRIX 175
Fallen Angels
October 7, 2016–January 8, 2017

Sam Wagstaff as Curator
September 17, 2016–January 8, 2017

The Thrill of the Chase: The Wagstaff Collection of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum
September 10, 2016–December 11, 2016

The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection
June 25, 2016–September 25, 2016

Vanessa German/MATRIX 174
i come to do a violence to the lie
June 9, 2016–September 4, 2016

The End of Innocence: Childhood Torments in the Contemporary Art Collection
February 6, 2016–August 14, 2016

Gothic to Goth: Romantic Era Fashion & Its Legacy
March 5, 2016–July 10, 2016

Sound & Sense: Poetic Musings in American Art
November 14, 2015–May 15, 2016

Mark Dion/MATRIX 173
The Wadsworth Atheneum’s Great Chain of Being
October 1, 2015–January 3, 2016

Legacy for the Future: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Winter Antiques Show Loan Exhibition | Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
January 22, 2016–January 31, 2016

Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dolls
October 17, 2015–January 24, 2016

Director’s Choice
Aspects of Portraiture: Photographs from the Wadsworth Atheneum
July 11, 2015–December 13, 2015

Visions from Home: Surrealism in Connecticut
July 3, 2015–October 18, 2015

Peter Blume: Nature and Metamorphosis
July 3, 2015–September 20, 2015

Mark Bradford / MATRIX 172
June 4, 2015–September 6, 2015

The Jason Tapestries
November 28, 2014–July 5, 2015

Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861–2008
January 31, 2015–May 31, 2015

Michael C. McMillen / MATRIX 171
January 31, 2015–May 3, 2015

Heaven and Earth: Masterworks from the Permanent Collection
Through April, 2015

Frohawk Two Feathers / MATRIX 170
October 2, 2014–January 4, 2015

Walton Ford’s Novaya Zemlya
June 14, 2014–December 14, 2014

Ruben Ochoa / MATRIX 169
June 5, 2014–September 7, 2014

Allison Schulnik / MATRIX 168
February 6, 2014–May 4, 2014

An Artificial Wilderness: The Landscape in Contemporary Photography
August 31, 2013–February 23, 2014

The Age of Pleasure and Enlightenment
August 10, 2013–February 23, 2014

Weaving the Myth of Psyche
September 13, 2013–February 16, 2014

Virgil Marti / MATRIX 167
August 1, 2013–January 5, 2014

Media Rewind 1963
June 4, 2013–December 8, 2013

Burst of Light: Caravaggio and His Legacy
March 6, 2013–June 16, 2013

Deb Sokolow / MATRIX 166
February 7, 2013–June 30, 2013

Medieval to Modern: French Drawings and Pastels
September 29, 2012–March 31, 2013

Medieval to Monet: French Paintings in the Wadsworth Atheneum
October 19, 2012–January 27, 2013

Ahmed Alsoudani / MATRIX 165
September 6, 2012–January 6, 2013

James Nares: STREET
June 2, 2012–November 15, 2012

The Museum Collects
June 30, 2012–September 9, 2012

Jan Tichy / MATRIX 164
April 5, 2012–August 5, 2012

Andrew Wyeth: Looking Beyond
March 24, 2012–July 22, 2012

James Welling: “Wyeth”
March 24, 2012–July 22, 2012

Colts & Quilts: The Civil War Remembered
November 16, 2011–May 6, 2012

Claire Beckett / MATRIX 163
November 3, 2011–March 4, 2012

Three Histories: The Wadsworth According to MATRIX
December 24, 2011–March 4, 2012

Patti Smith: Camera Solo
October 21, 2011–February 19, 2012

Shaun Gladwell / MATRIX 162
June 2, 2011–September 18, 2011

Monet’s Water Lilies: An Artist’s Obsession
February 17, 2011–June 12, 2011

Rashaad Newsome / MATRIX 161
February 3, 2011–May 1, 2011

Kim Schoenstadt / MATRIX 160
October 7, 2010–January 9, 2011

American Moderns on Paper: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
October 2, 2010–January 17, 2011

Justin Lowe / MATRIX 159
June 3, 2010–September 5, 2010

Kitty Kraus / MATRIX 158
February 4, 2010–May 2, 2010