100 Years of Presenting Art
A Celebration of the Museum's First Exhibition
Organized in 1877 as a historical society, the Mattatuck Museum presented its first art exhibition in 1912. Impressionist and tonalist artists including William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, George Inness, Willard Metcalf and Robert Reid were among the artists included in that initial show.
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One hundred years later, the museum recreates the beauty and spirit of the original exhibit in portraits, landscapes and allegorical art.
Image: J Alden Weir, Connecticut Landscape, 1890s, Gift of Mildred Thaler Cohen 1999, Seymour R Thaler and Mildred Thaler Cohen Collection
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