Arts - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project

New London’s Hygienic Art Building

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    Vincent Scarano

  • Town(s):
    New London

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Larry Kramer: Gay Rights and HIV/AIDS Activism

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    Sharon L. Cohen

  • Town(s):
    Bridgeport, New Haven

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The Orrin Freeman House and the Spirit of ‘76

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    Alex Gerrish

  • Town(s):
    Haddam

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Abigail Hinman: Heroine of the American Revolution or Legend?

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Rosa Ponselle: Meriden’s Famous Musical Daughter

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John Warner Barber’s Engravings Chronicle Connecticut History

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    Emily Clark

  • Town(s):
    New Haven

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George Laurence Nelson: Artist of Kent’s Seven Hearths

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The Welcoming Warmth of Kent’s Seven Hearths

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Clare Boothe Luce Changed Perceptions about Women in Business and Politics

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Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Captures the Gilded Age in Norwalk

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The Lyman Allyn Opens – Today in History: March 2

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Actress Gwen Reed Best Remembered for Dedication to Childhood Literacy

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William Gillette’s Last Performance – Today in History: February 27

Discovering the Mysterious Identity of the “Kent Limner”

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The Open and Fortified Country of the Human Heart: A Victorian Lady’s View of Love

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Alexander Calder and Making Art Political

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Charles Ethan Porter, Portrait of a 19th-Century African American Painter

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Music Vale Seminary in Salem Credited as Being First in US

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Timothy Dwight Dies – Today in History: January 11

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Yukitaka Osaki and Gillette Castle: One of Hadlyme’s First Japanese Immigrants

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Hartford’s “Façade House”: The Unique Home of Chick Austin

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Connecticut Native American Arts

John Frederick Kensett Illuminates the 19th-Century Landscape

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Goodspeed Opera House Opens – Today in History: October 24

Laura Wheeler Waring: Renowned African American Portrait Artist and Educator

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A Metal Giant in Wilton

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Florence Griswold’s Home: A Story of Perseverance and Community

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Anson Dickinson: Milton’s Painter of Portrait Miniatures

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A Photographer with a Painter’s Eye: The Story of Nelson Augustus Moore

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Killingworth’s Automated Attraction – Who Knew?

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Julian Alden Weir: The “Heart” of American Impressionism

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Breaking the Mold: Tradition and Innovation in the Work of Elbert Weinberg

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Past Perfect: Wallace Nutting Invents an Ideal Olde New England

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Sophie Tucker, The Last of the Red-Hot Mamas

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“Gentleman’s Farming” Comes to Waterford

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Hervey Brooks’s 19th-Century Pottery Barn

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“Take Five” with Dave Brubeck

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Edith Watson: Camera Artist

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Connecticut and American Impressionism

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Marian Anderson’s Role in the Civil Rights Movement

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Samuel Waldo Born – Today in History: April 6

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The Lebanon Grange Followed a Different Tune than National Movement

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Faith Trumbull: The Artist Was a Young Girl

Marietta Canty House

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Four Saints in Three Acts Debuts – Today in History: February 7

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Hartford’s Charles Dillingham Discovered Broadway Stars

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Jim Flora Captures 20th-Century Pop Culture

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“Tom Thumb” Born – Today in History: January 4

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There’s No Place Like Home for the Designer of Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers – Who Knew?

Chief G’tinemong/Ralph W. Sturges

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Jim Henson, the Muppets, and Greenwich

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Chick Austin Modernizes a Connecticut Institution

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Thomas W. Nason, the Poet Engraver of New England

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Drawing (on) the Connecticut Landscape: Benjamin Hutchins Coe Teaches Americans the Democratic Art

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West Indians in Hartford

Yale University Art Gallery – Today in History: October 25

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A Celebrated Artist and a Meaningful Space – Today in History: October 20

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A Revolutionary Book Designer: Bruce Rogers of New Fairfield

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Calder’s Stegosaurus Dedicated – Today in History: October 10

Mariann Wolcott and Ralph Earl – Opposites Come Together and Make History

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Evelyn Beatrice Longman Commemorates the Working Class

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Art Young, Radical Cartoonist

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Ralph Earl: Portrait of an Early American Artist

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Hope on the Wall: Connecticut’s New Deal Post Office Murals

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Connecticut Valley Style: Eliphalet Chapin Inspires a Tradition of Craft

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Herbert Abrams Immortalizes the Nation’s Leaders

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A World in Motion: Artist and Sculptor Alexander Calder

  • Writer:
    Theresa Erskine Roth

  • Town(s):
    Roxbury

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Drawn to Superheroes

An Artist’s Life in Hartford: The Early Career of Dwight Tryon

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    Nancy Finlay

  • Town(s):
    Hartford

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Stevan Dohanos Captures Connecticut Life

  • Writer:
    Rena Tobey

  • Town(s):
    Westport

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North Haven: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s

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The State Cantata – Today in History: June 3

The Minute Man, Westport CT

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Artist Frederic Church Born – Today in History: May 4

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A Connecticut Painter Finds His Voice through Colonial Folk Art

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Eugene O’Neill’s Connecticut Connections

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Carl Sandburg, Poet from the Grassroots, Reaches Connecticut Audiences

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An Artist and Her Books: Amelia Watson, 1856–1934

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The Wearing of the Green: 19th-century Prints of Irish Subjects by Hartford’s Kellogg Brothers

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Holmes at Home: The Life of William Gillette

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Remembering Fredi Washington: Actress, Activist, and Journalist

Ernest Borgnine: Breaking the Hollywood Mold

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Connecticut Transforms Aaron Draper Shattuck

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Ellis Ruley: Art that Celebrated Life

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The Great Remedy: Picturing the Emancipation Proclamation

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The Hartford Convention or Leap no Leap

Leroy Anderson Composed Iconic Music in Woodbury

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The Atheneum Joins War Effort – Who Knew?

Calder in Connecticut: World-Famous Artist Called Roxbury Home

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American Actor Changes 19th-Century Theater – Who Knew?

Broadway Comes to Westport

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Hartford’s Louis Peterson, Groundbreaking African American Playwright

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Hartford’s Anna Sokolow, Modern Dance Pioneer

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A Patriotic Legacy in Print

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Painter, Muralist, Sculptor Sol LeWitt born – Today in History: September 9

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Roger Tory Peterson Dies – Today in History: July 28

Weir Farm the Result of a Trade – Who Knew?

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Colt Park and the Magical Summer of 1976

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The Origins and Enduring Legacy of New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre

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Instruction by Mail: The Famous Artists School

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Early Civil Rights and Cultural Pioneers: The Easton Family

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The Hartford Insurance Investigator With the Action-Packed Expense Account

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Colonial Revival Movement Sought Stability during Time of Change

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Exploring Early Connecticut Mapmaking

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Katharine Hepburn’s Love Affair (with Connecticut)

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A Russian Village Retreat in Southbury

John Rogers was a 19th-Century Sculptor for the Common Man

  • Town(s):
    New Canaan

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News From Lexington: Contemporary Views of the Opening Battles of the American Revolution

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Bridgeport’s Walt Kelly, Creator of Pogo

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James Abbott McNeill Whistler: A Young Artist in Pomfret

  • Writer:
    Christina Volpe

  • Town(s):
    Pomfret

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Rex Brasher Dies – Today in History: February 29

“Negroes Who Stand Up and Fight Back” – Paul Robeson in Hartford

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Sarah Bernhardt Performs in Hartford – Today in History: June 8

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Artist Louis Paul Dessar Dies – Today in History: February 14

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An Overview of Connecticut’s Outdoor Sculpture

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A Special Place to Honor Military Veterans in Plainville

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Martha Graham, Connecticut College, and the American Dance Festival

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Rock and Roll vs. Racism

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The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

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Hardcore Connecticut: Documenting the State’s Punk Rock Scene

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Ivoryton Playhouse Opens – Today in History: June 17

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The Decorative Arts of Connecticut

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Pan-Harmonicum Strikes a New Note for Puritan Worship in Lebanon

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Tavern Signs Mark Changes in Travel, Innkeeping, and Artistic Practice

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    Susan P. Schoelwer

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Norfolk—Alive With The Sound of Summer Music

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Frances Laughlin Wadsworth: Sculpting the Past

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The Legend of the Charter Oak

  • Town(s):
    Hartford

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James G. Batterson, Stone Contractor

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The Answer Is Risom!

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Artist Roger Tory Peterson, a Champion for the Natural World

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Preserving an All-American Downtown in Torrington

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The Art of Life and Death in Colonial Bolton

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American Painter John Trumbull Born – Today in History: June 6

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