Lyman Allyn Art Museum hosts French Art From the Collection

Wednesday, 20 February 2008 23:39

New London, CT - Lyman Allyn Art Museum announces a new exhibition Tradition et Innovation: French Art from the Lyman Allyn Art Museum, opened on January 19 and on view throughout 2008.  This exhibition is supported in part by the Frank Loomis Palmer Fund, Bank of America, Trustee; Pfizer, and with support from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism.
 
Presenting French art from the permanent collection, Tradition et Innovation features paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture from the 17^th through the 20^th centuries. Works on view include J.A.D. Ingres's important pencil study for the portrait of Mme. Moitessier Standing (c.1851), Pierre Auguste Renoir's bronze Maternite' (1916) and Auguste Rodin's sculpture Study of a Crouching Woman.  For this exhibition, the museum will also mount 17^th century drawings by Nicholas Poussin, Hyacinthe Rigaud and Francois Boucher as well as paintings by Pierre Mignard, Gustave Courbet and Honoré Daumier.  Tradition et Innovation offers a rare opportunity to see world-class French art in New London.
 
Coordinating programming includes the following:
The film A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape will be screened in the Museum's auditorium on selected Saturday and Sunday afternoons throughout the year.  The schedule will be posted on the museum website.
 
A newly developed program - Café and Conversation – will take place in the museum café and offers an opportunity for viewers to interact with the curator and museum staff to discuss various aspects of the exhibition, as well as broader art historical concepts.  Call the museum at 860-443-2545 for a schedule of dates for Café and Conversation.
 
Tours of the exhibition will be available in French, geared to middle school and high school groups.  Call Jane Seney, Education Director, for more information or to schedule tours:  860-443-2545, x 110.
 
Lyman Allyn Art Museum is a community-based museum located in New London, Connecticut.  Founded in 1932 by Harriet Upson Allyn in memory of her father, Lyman Allyn, the Museum serves the people of Southeastern Connecticut and is free to the residents of New London. The Museum is accredited by the American Association of Museums and is a non-profit organization with 501(c) 3 status.  Housed in a handsome Neo-Classical building designed by Charles A. Platt, the permanent collection includes over 10,000 paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, furniture and decorative arts, with an emphasis on American art from the 18^th through 20^th centuries.  
 
The museum is located at 625 Williams Street, New London, Connecticut, exit 83 off I-95.  The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm and Sunday 1:00 – 5:00 pm, closed Mondays and major holidays. For more information call 860.443.2545 or visit us on the web at:www.lymanallyn.org.