Museum · 258 Main Street, Ridgefield
The Aldrich
Connecticut's only museum devoted solely to contemporary art. No permanent collection. In Ridgefield.
Places · Connecticut woods
Connecticut woods
Blitt draws power as a situation, not a speech. The woods around Roxbury are full of rooms that do the same trick: a glass house that hides nothing, a contemporary museum that still looks like a house, a Yale hall that treats sculpture as furniture, and the English prints that taught a cartoon how to indict a room.
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What to see
Museums, galleries, and other unique spaces.
House / camera · New Canaan
The Glass House
Philip Johnson's 1949 glass-and-steel house in New Canaan. Now a National Trust Historic Site. Tours by reservation.
Museum · 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven
Yale University Art Gallery
Yale's art museum on Chapel Street. Free. Collection from ancient sculpture to contemporary art.
Museum · 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven
Yale Center for British Art
The largest collection of British art outside the United Kingdom, in Louis Kahn's building across from the Yale Art Gallery. Free.
Studio / park · 735 Nod Hill Road, Wilton
Weir Farm
The only national park dedicated to American painting. Home and studio of Impressionist J. Alden Weir, in Wilton.
Art colony · 96 Lyme Street, Old Lyme
Florence Griswold Museum
The Old Lyme boarding house that became the center of the Lyme Art Colony and American Impressionism.
Museum · 56 Lexington Street, New Britain
New Britain Museum of American Art
Opened in 1903 as the first museum of American art. Strong holdings in illustration, including Norman Rockwell and N. C. Wyeth.
House · 351 Farmington Avenue, Hartford
The Mark Twain House
The Hartford house where Mark Twain wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
The work · Connecticut woods
The covers
Barry Blitt's New Yorker covers and drawings, made in the Connecticut woods.
Know before you go
If you want the work
The pictures live in The New Yorker, in Blitt the book, and on the walls of people who still think a drawing can indict a presidency. The woods are his. The covers are yours.
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