NEW BRITAIN, Connecticut, U.S.A. – No matter what type of art you like, there’s always something interesting to see at the New Britain Museum of American Art.
The museum has both permanent galleries filled with old murals and classic Hudson River Valley paintings and it has temporary exhibits.
The oil paintings of Tom Yost, mostly Connecticut landscapes, are currently on display.
An extensive collection of modern art fills the gallery on the second floor including an impressive piece from Andy Warhol.
It’s all a must-see for art lovers.
Mary Majerus-Collins and Laura Espinoza Jara are Reporters for Youth Journalism International.
West Rock, New Haven, an 1849 oil painting by Frederic Edwin Church of a Connecticut vista, is part of the museum’s Hudson River collection. (Mary Majerus-Collins/YJI)
Andy Warhol’s 1974 acrylic painting Man Ray hangs at the museum. (Laura Espinoza Jara/YJI)
Sol LeWitt’s A Square Divided Horizontally and Vertically into four equal parts, Each with a Different direction of alternatin parallel bands of lines. The 1982 work, by the New Britain native son, is one of many of LeWitt’s works on display. (Laura Espinoza Jara/YJI)
YJI reporters Laura Espinoza Jara of Quito, Ecuador, and Mary Majerus-Collins of Connecticut, U.S.A., with some of the contemporary art at the New Britain Museum of American Art. (YJI)
This 2011 work by Titus Kaphar is called Jaavon and the Unknown Gentleman. (Laura Espinoza Jara/YJI)
This oil painting, The Florist, is a 1943 work by John Koch. (Mary Majerus-Collins/YJI)
No visit to the New Britain museum is complete without stopping to say hi to Syl Sijan, the security guard, a sculpture by Marc Sijan. Here, YJI reporters Laura Espinoza Jara of Quito, Ecuador, and Mary Majerus-Collins of Connecticut, U.S.A., pose for a picture with Syl.
From 1933, the Analogical Emblem Landscape, by Stuart Davis. (Laura Espinoza Jara/YJI)
The 1806 oil painting Thetis Bringing Armor to Achilles, is part of the museum’s collection. (Mary Majerus-Collins/YJI)
Laura Espinoza Jara, 16, of Quito, Ecuador, studies some of the contemporary art at the New Britain Museum of American Art. (YJI)
Outside, YJI reporters Laura Espinoza Jara of Quito, Ecuador and Mary Majerus-Collins of Connecticut, U.S.A., spend a little time with the penguins on parade in front of the museum.
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