Art

Wadsworth Atheneum

Hartford, Connecticut

About

The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut is the oldest public art museum in the United States, founded in 1842. Its collection of more than 50,000 objects spans 5,000 years of art history, including significant holdings in Baroque paintings, Hudson River School landscapes, American decorative arts, and European Impressionism. The museum's Gothic Revival building is itself a landmark of American architectural history.

Highlights & Things Not to Miss

Baroque Masterworks

Significant holdings of 17th-century European paintings

Hudson River School

Major landscapes by Cole, Church, and their contemporaries

American Decorative Arts

Furniture and objects from colonial America to the 20th century