Collection Spotlight

• “National Archives Microfilm Publication M999 Roll 34” 2009

  Kara Walker (video) The disturbing story of an African American family... »MORE

  

• Bed Rug 1741

  Phoebe Denison Billings (wool) A fascinating object of 18th and early 19th century domestic design... »MORE

  

• Black Niijima Floats 2010

  Dale Chihuly (glass) A major installation for the Addison's newly renovated building. »MORE

  

• Black Painting 1980

  Shirley Goldfarb (oil on canvas) Shirley Goldfarb belongs to a long and distinguished list of expatriate American artists... »MORE

  

• Break on through the other side 1995

  Sam Messer (oil on canvas) The conclusion of the artist's series of portraits of folk painter Jon Serl... »MORE

  

• Crossing The Threshold 2009

  Mark Bradford Mark Bradford builds canvases from scavenged from the streets near his studio in South Central Los Angeles… »MORE

  

• Funeral—St. Helena, South Carolina neg. 1955-56, prints c. 1981

  Robert Frank (gelatin silver print) The Addison is one of only three American museums to own all 83 images from The Americans... »MORE

  

• Looking Up Inside Sending Tower 1933

  Margaret Bourke-White (gelatin silver print) The Addison is one of the first American museums to collect photography… »MORE

  

• Study - Miss R. c. 1904

  Alvin Langdon Coburn (photogravure) An experimental portrait displaying the artist's love of simplicity and abstraction... »MORE

  

• No. 1 1951

  Anne Ryan (paper, fabric collage on illustration board) It was in the late 1940s that the poet-turned-artist Anne Ryan began to make her first collages... »MORE

  

• Summer, Sea, Window, Red Curtain 1942

  Marsden Hartley (oil on canvas) Merges seascape and still life, realism and abstraction... »MORE

  

• Mary Elizabeth Martin 1771

  John Singleton Copley (oil on canvas) One of a handful of children painted by Copley... »MORE

  

• Fenêtre I 2009

  Sheila Hicks (cotton, bamboo, linen, silk) From Sheila Hicks's retrospective exhibition. »MORE

  

• Structure of Arches 1939

  David Smith (steel with zinc and copper plating) Abstract and uncannily anthropomorphic at the same time... »MORE

  

• Painting sketch No. 2 - New York 1922

  Louis Lozowick (oil on canvas) Best known for his depictions of New York cityscapes with their dazzling play between light and shade... »MORE

  

• Eight Bells 1886

  Winslow Homer (oil on canvas) Winslow Homer’s iconic Eight Bells  has been beloved by generations of visitors to the Addison… »MORE

  

• Souvenir II 1997

  Kerry James Marshall (acrylic, collage, and glitter on unstretched canvas banner) While Kerry James Marshall developed a radically different visual vocabulary for his 1997-98 series, Souvenir... »MORE

  

• Professor Henry A. Rowland 1897

  Thomas Eakins (oil on canvas) A contemplative and laudatory portrait... »MORE

  

• Design for Yacht Interior c. 1914

  Stuart Travis (watercolor) An elegant mixed-media drawing featuring a proposed design for the breakfast room of a yacht... »MORE

  

• Narcissus 1986

  Duane Michals (five gelatin silver prints) Classical in his sculpturally formed body and tousled long hair, the model in Duane Michals’s series reenacts the myth of Narcissus... »MORE

  

• Prom Dress 1975

  Joan Lyons (offset lithograph) When put together, these six lithographs compose an image that is at once sweet and subtly intriguing... »MORE

  

• Dream House 2002

  Gregory Crewdson (chromogenic print) In the photographic series Dream House by Gregory Crewdson, suburbia and surrealism collide... »MORE

  

• The Kaleidoscope House 2000

  Laurie Simmons and Peter Wheelwright (dollhouse and accessories) Occupying the conceptual space between dollhouse, model, and work of art... »MORE

  

• The Circus 1912

  George Bellows (oil on canvas) Swirling, excited motion within the circus ring... »MORE

  

• The Toast 1964

  John Koch (oil on canvas) Koch imbues his elegantly staged interior scenes with nuanced psychological subtext... »MORE

  

• The Secret World of Frank Stella 1958-1962

  Hollis Frampton (gelatin silver print) Representing a milestone in the careers of two artists... »MORE

  

• Runaways 1993

  Glenn Ligon (suite of ten lithographs) Exploring the construction of identity... »MORE

  

• Untitled #765 1993-1994

  Petah Coyne (mixed media) Both thoughtful and adventurous, Petah Coyne seeks out unconventional materials for her sculptures... »MORE

  

• Teapot c. 1750

  Jacob Hurd (silver with wood handle) An extraordinary example of American silver with deep ties to Phillips Academy. »MORE

  

• Henry Hudson Bridge Substructure 2006

  Rackstraw Downes (oil on canvas) An intense study of changing light... »MORE

  

• Radiant Night 1932-1933

  Oscar Bluemner (oil on canvas) Based on a charcoal sketch, Burnett’s House, Bloomfield, 1917-20, this painting typifies Bluemner’s approach... »MORE

  

• Sunday, Women Drying Their Hair 1912

  John Sloan (oil on canvas) Depicting the urban life of New York City... »MORE

  

• Wave, Night 1928

  Georgia O'Keeffe A rare O’Keeffe nocturnal seascape, Wave, Night has been featured in over forty traveling exhibitions since it joined the Addison collection in 1947… »MORE

  

• Venice (Light Under Church Doors) 1960, printed c. late 1960s

  Ray K. Metzker (gelatin silver print) Rays of sunlight passing through the cracked doors of a Venetian church form a cross-like shape... »MORE