Diverse Perspectives

An exhibition brings together the unexpected to explore the American landscape past and present

- John O'Hern

Dan Friday (Lummi Nation), Aunt Fran's Basket, 2019. Blown glass. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, purchased through the gift of the family of Leta Marks in her honor, 2023.17.1 Dan Friday.

June 12-September 14, 2025
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
600 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06103 t: [phone] www.thewadsworth.org

Beginning June 12, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art is hosting (Un)Settled: The Landscape in American Art, a collaborative exhibition among four participating museums in the Art Bridges Cohort Program's American South Consortium.

Laura Leonard, Art Bridges project coordinator and curatorial researcher on the final artist selection and interpretative materials, explains, “This project was enriched by the dialogue we had with our partners and sharing different viewpoints on the topic. As a result, the exhibition includes several regional artists to expand beyond the familiar and expected.”

Expanding beyond the familiar and expected are a Puget Sound Salish, Washington, woven round bowl, circa 1900; and Aunt Fran's Basket, 2019, a blown glass bowl by Dan Friday (Lummi Nation).

Erin Monroe, Krieble Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, shares, “This pairing means so much to our intention to go beyond the expected notion or concept of a depicted landscape.”

Thomas Cole (1802-1848), View in the White Mountains, 1827. Oil on canvas. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, bequest of Daniel Wadsworth, 1848.17.

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