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University Museums

Harvard Art Museums,
Smith College Museum
1 3
Cambridge, MA
of Art, Northampton, MA
MAP C3 • 20 Elm St • 413 585 2760 MAP F2 • 32 Quincy St • 617 495
• Open 10am–4pm Tue–Sat, noon– 9400 • Open 10am–5pm daily • Adm
4pm Sun • Adm • www.smith.edu/ • www.harvardartmuseums.org
artmuseum One of the world’s most
Since its founding in the wide-ranging university
1870s, Smith has collected art museums, this boasts
contemporary art. Rufino outstanding collections of
Tamayo’s Nature and the ancient Greek, medieval,
Artist: The Work of Art and the Renaissance, Impressionist,
Observer, commissioned by the Expressionist, and Asian art.
college in 1943, offers a rare
Colby College
chance to see a work by one 4
of Mexico’s leading muralists. Museum of Art,
Waterville, ME
Yale University Art
2 MAP P3 • 5600 Mayflower
Museums, New
Hill Dr • 207 859 5600 • Open
Haven, CT 10am–5pm Tue–Sat, noon–
MAP C5 • Yale Center for British 5pm Sun • www.colby.edu/
Art: 1080 Chapel St; 203 432 museum
2800; open 10am–5pm Tue– An excellent survey of
Sat, noon–5pm Sun; Exhibit, Harvard major American artists is
britishart.yale.edu • Yale Art Museums capped with key holdings of
University Art Gallery: 1111 modern and contemporary
Chapel St; 203 432 0600; open artists associated with Maine,
10am–5pm Tue–Fri, 11am–5pm Sat– including Marsden Hartley (1877–
Sun; artgallery.yale.edu 1943) and Alex Katz (b. 1927).
The largest collection of British art
Peary-MacMillan Arctic
outside the UK is kept at the Yale 5
Center for British Art, designed by Museum, Brunswick, ME
modernist architect Louis B. Kahn MAP P4 • Hubbard Hall, Bowdoin
(1901–74). The Yale University Art College • 207 725 3416 • Open
Gallery, an earlier Kahn building 10am–5pm Tue–Sat, 2–5pm Sun
of 1953, is noted for its American • www.bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum
paintings and decorative arts. Named for Bowdoin College alumni
Robert E. Peary (1856–1920) and
Donald B. MacMillan (1874–1970),
this museum brings their daring
Arctic explorations to life. Natural
history specimens, Inuit artifacts,
and photographs offer insight on
the cultures of the far north.
RISD Museum,
6
Providence, RI
MAP E4 • 224 Benefit St • 401 454
6500 • Open 10am–5pm Tue–Sun,
10am–9pm third Thu of the month
• Adm • www.risdmuseum.org
Students at New England’s top
art and design school seek
Yale Center for British Art inspira tion here. The historically

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