On View
Figure/Ground (9/14/24–3/2/25)
Kay WalkingStick / Hudson River School (9/14/24–2/2/25)
Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962 (9/3/24–1/5/25)
Models of American Sailing Ships (permanently on view)
Exhibitions on view
Permanently installed works of art
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Jennifer Cecere: Abbot & Andover at 50: Then, Now, Next (on the façade of the Addison and in Abbot Circle, next to 24 School Street in Andover), has been created in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Abbot Academy and Phillips Academy becoming a single institution. Jennifer Cecere (Abbot 1969) has created two site-specific installations—an oversized and reflective doily adorning the Addison’s façade, and one of the artist’s signature doily benches in Abbot Circle—that reference and recontextualize the humble lace ornament.
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Figure/Ground (through 3/2/25; Level 1, Gallery 109 and Exhibition Hall) examines the interconnection between individuals and their environments, offering a multifaceted view of the human experience in relation to the spaces we inhabit. The varied scenes, from urban landscapes to pastoral countrysides, invite narrative and prompt reflection on the ways we relate to our own environments.
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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 / 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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Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962 (through 1/5/25; Level 2, Galleries 201–209) delves into the various circles of American artists who made France their home during the post-World War II era, and investigates the academies where many studied, the spaces where their work was exhibited, their interactions with European artists, and the overarching issue of what it meant to be an American abroad.
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Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962 (through 1/5/25; Level 2, Galleries 201–209) delves into the various circles of American artists who made France their home during the post-World War II era, and investigates the academies where many studied, the spaces where their work was exhibited, their interactions with European artists, and the overarching issue of what it meant to be an American abroad.
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Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962 (through 1/5/25; Level 2, Galleries 201–209) delves into the various circles of American artists who made France their home during the post-World War II era, and investigates the academies where many studied, the spaces where their work was exhibited, their interactions with European artists, and the overarching issue of what it meant to be an American abroad.
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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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