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Kay WalkingStick / Hudson River School (9/14/24–2/2/25)

Models of American Sailing Ships (permanently on view)

 

Exhibitions on view

Permanently installed works of art

Paul Manship, Venus Anadyomene, 1927
Paul Manship, Venus Anadyomene, 1927. Marble, 28 5/8 x 22 inches. Gift of anonymous donor, fountain restoration funded by Mary and Keith Kauppila, 1930.291

 

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H. E. Boucher Mfg. Company, Flying Cloud, 1930
H. E. Boucher Mfg. Company, Flying Cloud, 1930. Ship model, 44 x 72 inches. Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, gift of George Jordan, 1931.S7
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Kay WalkingStick, Our Land Variation II, 2008
Kay WalkingStick, Our Land Variation II, 2008. Oil stick on paper. Miller Meigs Collections. Photo by JSP Art Photography. © Kay WalkingStick

Kay WalkingStick / Hudson River School (through 2/2/25; Level 1, Galleries 102–105), celebrates a shared reverence for nature while engaging crucial questions about land dispossession and its reclamation by Indigenous peoples and nations and exploring the relationship between Indigenous art and American art history, placing landscape paintings by the renowned contemporary Cherokee artist Kay WalkingStick in conversation with highlights from New-York Historical Society’s collection of 19th-century Hudson River School paintings.

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Kay WalkingStick, Farewell to the Smokies (Trail of Tears), 2007
Kay WalkingStick, Farewell to the Smokies (Trail of Tears), 2007. Oil on wood panel. Denver Art Museum, William Sr. and Dorothy Harmsen Collection at the Denver Art Museum, by exchange, 2008.14A-B. © Kay WalkingStick. Image courtesy of the Denver Art Museum

Kay WalkingStick / Hudson River School (through 2/2/25; Level 1, Galleries 102–105), celebrates a shared reverence for nature while engaging crucial questions about land dispossession and its reclamation by Indigenous peoples and nations and exploring the relationship between Indigenous art and American art history, placing landscape paintings by the renowned contemporary Cherokee artist Kay WalkingStick in conversation with highlights from New-York Historical Society’s collection of 19th-century Hudson River School paintings.

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Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #713: On a vaulted ceiling, 20 irregular five-sided figures, January 1993
Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #713: On a vaulted ceiling, 20 irregular five-sided figures, January 1993. Color ink wash and India ink. Gift of the artist, 1993.49. Image © 2014 The LeWitt Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Reproduction, including downloading of Sol LeWitt works is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the express written permission of Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
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L. A. Pritchard, Model by L.A. Pritchard after plans by R. C. Anderson, Mayflower, c. 1936
L. A. Pritchard, Model by L.A. Pritchard after plans by R. C. Anderson, Mayflower, c. 1936

The Addison Gallery’s famed model ship collection, permanently installed in the building’s lower level, consisted originally of 24 works commissioned by the museum’s founder, Thomas Cochran, to document four centuries of American history. 

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Bartlett H. Hayes Prize Recipients

2023:

Reggie Burrows Hodges

Exhibition | Residency | Publication | Acquisition

2025:

Tommy Kha

Exhibition | Residency | Publication | Acquisition