Private Tour of the Permanent Collection with Wine and Cheese Reception for 4 Guests

New Britain Museum of American Art

New Britain, CT

Experience the joy of American Art at The New Britain Museum of American Art, founded in 1903 and designated as the first museum dedicated to collecting strictly American art in the country. That year, a $20,000 gift of gold bonds to the Museum's former parent, the New Britain Institute, from industrialist John Butler Talcott, created funds to purchase "modern oil paintings." Subsequent purchases, with advice from New York museums and galleries, further defined "modern" to mean American works of art, now numbering more than 8,300. With particular strengths in colonial portraiture, the Hudson River School, American Impressionism, and the Ash Can School, not to mention the important mural series The Arts of Life in America by Thomas Hart Benton, the Museum relies heavily on its permanent collection for exhibitions and programming, yet also displays a significant number of borrowed shows and work by emerging artists.

Package Includes:

• Private Tour of Permanent Collection with Senior Staff for 4 Guests plus Wine and Cheese Reception to New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, CT

To be scheduled at a mutually agreed upon date and time.

https://www.nbmaa.org/