- Lyman Allyn Art Museum
The Lyman Allyn Art Museum was founded in 1932 by Harriet Upson Allyn in memory of her father, Lyman Allyn.
Housed in a handsome Neo-Classical building designed by Charles A. Platt, the permanent collection includes over 10,000 paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, furniture and decorative arts, with an emphasis on American art from the 18th through 20th centuries. Featured artists include Rembrandt Peale, Benjamin West, Gilbert Stuart, John Trumbull, Thomas Cole, Frederick Edwin Church, and Albert Bierstadt.
Also occupying the Museum’s gracious campus is the stone Deshon-Allyn House, a Federal style home built in 1829 by Daniel Deshon, sold to Lyman Allyn, and occupied by various members of the Allyn family, including Harriet. The house has been declared a National Registered Landmark.
References
* [http://www.lymanallyn.org/ Lyman Allyn Art Museum Official website]
*Handbook of the Lyman Allyn Museum, Eastern Press, Inc, New Haven, 1976.
*American Artists Abroad and their Inspiration: Selections from the lyman Allyn Art Museum, essays by Nancy Stula and Christopher Steiner, 2004.
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