Arts - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project

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

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Artist Roger Tory Peterson, a Champion for the Natural World

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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

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Drawn to Superheroes

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

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Stevan Dohanos Captures Connecticut Life

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

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Ivoryton Playhouse Opens – Today in History: June 17

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The State Cantata – Today in History: June 3

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

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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

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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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Video – Sophie Tucker Tribute Film

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James Abbott McNeil Whistler’s Life in 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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The Legend of the Charter Oak

Hardcore Connecticut: Documenting the State’s Punk Rock Scene

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

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

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

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Video – Unsung Heroes: The Music of Jazz in New Haven

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Video – Dotha Bushnell Hillyer Tribute Film

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Video – Florence Griswold Tribute Film

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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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Video – Rudolph Zallinger’s Masterpiece, “The Age of Reptiles”

Preserving an All-American Downtown in Torrington

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The Decorative Arts of Connecticut

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The Old Brownstone Soldier

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Norfolk—Alive With The Sound of Summer Music

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Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum Est. 1842

James G. Batterson, Stone Contractor

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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Litchfield Historical Society

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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Phelps-Hatheway House and Garden

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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Bush-Holley House

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The Answer Is Risom!

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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Florence Griswold Museum

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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Slater Memorial Museum

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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: New Britian Museum of American Art

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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Mattatuck Museum

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