Exploring the historical role played by visual images in transforming the fight for civil rights in the United States. »More
Exploring secrecy, AIDS, loving relationships between men, and the quest for tolerance through works of art by gay male artists. »More
Paintings from the permanent collection, featuring a dynamic mix of the familiar and the much-loved with the new and surprising. »More
Richard Avedon's series explores the men and women who he believed were the key figures in the political, financial, and intellectual leadership of the United States in the mid-1970s. »More
Stuart Davis (oil on canvas) Davis was inspired by the flat, linear, and geometric shapes and bold, rich colors of Cubism when he painted this harbor scene... »MORE
Georgia O'Keefe A rare O’Keeffe nocturnal seascape, Wave, Night has been featured in over forty traveling exhibitions since it joined the Addison collection in 1947… »MORE
Mark Bradford Mark Bradford builds canvases from scavenged from the streets near his studio in South Central Los Angeles… »MORE
Winslow Homer (oil on canvas) Winslow Homer’s iconic Eight Bells has been beloved by generations of visitors to the Addison… »MORE
Margaret Bourke-White (gelatin silver print) The Addison is one of the first American museums to collect photography… »MORE
Robert Frank (gelatin silver print) The Addison is one of only three American museums to own all 83 images from The Americans... »MORE
Jacob Hurd (silver with wood handle) An extraordinary example of American silver with deep ties to Phillips Academy. »MORE
Sheila Hicks (cotton, bamboo, linen, silk) From Sheila Hicks's retrospective exhibition. »MORE
Dale Chihuly (glass) A major installation for the Addison's newly renovated building. »MORE
John Singleton Copley (oil on canvas) One of a handful of children painted by Copley... »MORE
Thomas Eakins (oil on canvas) A contemplative and laudatory portrait... »MORE
John Sloan (oil on canvas) Depicting the urban life of New York City... »MORE
George Bellows (oil on canvas) Swirling, excited motion within the circus ring... »MORE
David Smith (steel with zinc and copper plating) Abstract and uncannily anthropomorphic at the same time... »MORE
Marsden Hartley (oil on canvas) Merges seascape and still life, realism and abstraction... »MORE
Glenn Ligon (suite of ten lithographs) Exploring the construction of identity... »MORE
Rackstraw Downes (oil on canvas) An intense study of changing light... »MORE
Kara Walker (video) The disturbing story of an African American family... »MORE
