About the museum
The story of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, opened in 1844 and is the oldest continuously operating public art museum in the United States.
It holds Hudson River School landscapes, Baroque painting including Caravaggio, and early modern works by Dalí and other Surrealists.
The collection
Founded by Daniel Wadsworth, the Atheneum's collection of about 50,000 works includes Hudson River School landscapes by Thomas Cole and Frederic Church, which Wadsworth helped to promote.
Its European painting ranges from Caravaggio's Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy to the first Surrealist works bought by an American museum, and it hosted early exhibitions of Picasso and the Surrealists in the 1930s.
At ArtLogia you can order 26 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 19 artists led by Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church and Artemisia Gentileschi.
- paintings to order
- 26
- artists
- 19
- art movements
- 9
- years covered
- 1490–1892
The building
The Gothic Revival building on Main Street in Hartford was designed by Ithiel Town and Alexander Jackson Davis and opened in 1844.
Masterpieces to see
Planning a visit
Its Gothic Revival castle-like building is a landmark in downtown Hartford.
