For anyone unable to visit in person, or who might like to see a preview before visiting, or wants to take another look at the Addison’s spring shows, the museum is pleased to share virtual tours of each exhibition.
All tours were created by Lightshed Photography Studio.
Click on the images below to begin each tour.
Parasol Press: Breaking New Ground is the first exhibition to survey the print publisher’s remarkable publications from 1970–2014. This exhibition showcases radical innovations that pushed the boundaries of printmaking and secured Parasol’s place as one of the most important print publishers of the 20th century. Parasol’s editions were among the most ambitious, demonstrating the varied ways artists explored the materiality of printed surfaces while challenging the medium’s limits.
Both Sides of the Line: Carmen Herrera & Leon Polk Smith, organized by the University of Michigan Museum of Art, explores how artists Carmen Herrera and Leon Polk Smith redefined the visual language of modern art. Their perspectives intersect, diverge, and resonate, offering new ways to understand abstraction, identity, and the power of friendship.
Little Boxes features works from the Addison’s collection and invites viewers into a nuanced exploration of the square and the rectangle, two essential geometric forms that have served as powerful tools in artistic expression. The exhibition explores how the simple “box” serves both as a practical strategy for pictorial composition and as a symbolic container for complex narratives.
Playing to Our Strengths: Highlights from the Permanent Collection unfolds over four galleries to explore how American artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries grappled with the inherently contradictory nature of modern life, laying bare the tensions between appearance and reality, and the orderly and the chaotic.
Welcome Home asks what is home? How does it shape you? How do you shape it? Artists have long explored these difficult questions, capturing the idea of home and belonging in ways both tangible and abstract. Visitors are invited to ponder their own ideas of home in this exhibition curated by Phillips Academy students enrolled in Art 400 Visual Culture: Curating the Addison Collection.
In Focus: Winslow Homer: Watching, Waiting is focused on maritime works by Winslow Homer and examines the Boston-born artist’s persistent engagement with and interrogation of the twinned themes of watching and waiting across his fifty-year career. Homer’s oeuvre reflects a lifelong preoccupation with observation and contemplation.
Martin Puryear: In Print is focused on prints by Puryear, who is best known as a sculptor. Using printmaking to consider variations of his three-dimensional forms Puryear explores a range of techniques combining etching, drypoint, and aquatint, exploiting the medium’s directness and immediacy in contrast to the slow, labor-intensive nature of sculpture.
