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Founded in 1912, the Newport Art Museum is one of the oldest continuously operating and most highly regarded art museums and schools of its kind in the country.
The Newport Art Museum’s collection consists of approximately 3,000 works of art in a range of media including works on paper (prints, drawings, watercolors, and photographs), paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, installation works, and textiles and is expanding to include new media. Concentrated on American art and contemporary art, the Museum’s collection includes works of art from the 18th century to present.
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Over one-third of the Museum’s collection is devoted to contemporary art. This collection includes prints, drawings, photographs, paintings, sculptures, mixed media, and installation art. The Museum is currently expanding its holdings to include new media as well.
The Museum owns contemporary photography by Richard Benson, Lindsey Beal, Jesse Burke, Caleb Cole, Ron Cowie, Kerry Stuart Coppin, Ralph Gibson, Lucas Foglia, Sally Gall, Henry Horenstein, Nancy Grace Horton, Tom Jones, Alen MacWeeney, Rania Matar, Joel Meyerowitz, Lindsay Morris, Lissa Rivera, Camille Seaman, David Seltzer, Lawrence F. Sykes, Peter Turnley, Andy Warhol, and considerable holdings of photographs by Donna Ferrato, Aaron Siskind, and Rhode Island photographer Salvatore Mancini.
The Museum is also home to 20th and 21st century works on paper (prints, drawings, and watercolors) by Albert Alcalay, George Bellows, Varujan Boghosian, Caleb Cole, David Dewey, Steven Easton, George Condo, Umberto Crenca, Mark di Suvero, Mary Dondero, Red Grooms, William Gropper, Philip Guston, Mags Harries, Arghavan Khosravi, Pouran Jinchi, Corita Kent, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Mayhew, Michael Mazur, Lloyd G. McNeill, Alan Metnick, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Louise Nevelson, Philip Pearlstein, Fairfield Porter, Ad Reinhardt, Mahler Ryder, Raphael Soyer, Kenn Speiser, May Stevens, Meredith Stern, Chris Van Allsburg, and Andy Warhol. The Museum has significant holdings of prints and drawings by Francis Adams Comstock and Joseph Norman.
The Museum’s growing collection of sculpture and decorative art includes works by regional, national, and international contemporary artists. Some of these works are on display in the Museum, as well as in the outdoor sculpture garden. The artists represented in this area of the collection are David Allyn, Jillian Barber, Howard Ben Tré, Lisa Barthelson, Lindsey Beal, Ashwini Bhat, Caleb Cole, Dale Chihuly, Elizabeth Duffy, Steven Easton, Minoo Emami, Brooke Erin Goldstein, Michael Hansel, Douglas Huebler, Jesse Krimes, Howard Newman, Allison Newsome, Lisa Perez, Arnold Prince, Italo Scanga, Hugh Townley, Nafis M. White, Claudia Widdiss, and Toots Zynsky.
Contemporary paintings include works by national and regional artists, such as James Baker, David Barnes, Christopher Benson, Stephen Brownell, Donnamaria Bruton, Ruth Dealy, David Dewey, Bob Dilworth, Jemison Faust, Leslie Graff, Bunny Harvey, Florence Leif, Sue McNally, Gordon Peers, Rita Rogers, Jordan Seaberry, Italo Scanga, and Richard Whitten among others.
Roy Lichtenstein, Red and Yellow Apple, 1983, woodcut on handmade Iwano Kizuki Hosho paper, Gift of the Artist, 1999.002.001.© Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
Jordan Seaberry, She Gather Them and Give Them Back to Me, 2022, watercolor, acrylic, graphite, and modeling paste on canvas, Museum Purchase, 2023.001.001
David and Jennifer Clancy, Lysichiton with Fiddleheads, 2015, blown and sculpted glass, wood, Gift of the Artists, 2022.006.001
Tom Jones, Peyton Grace Rapp, 2017, digital photograph with glass beads, Purchased with funds from Marianne Conese, Karl and Teryn Weintz, and the Museum Acquisitions Fund, 2023.005.001
Jesse Krimes, Wispbee, 2022, embroidery, used clothing from currently and formerly incarcerated people, antique quilt, Museum Purchase, 2023.006.001.
Minoo Emami, Soheila from the series “The Peace March,” 2016, glass and resin, Museum Purchase, 2018.007.001.
Donnamaria Bruton, Interior #1, c.1997, mixed media: acrylic, gouache, pencil on canvas, Gift from the collection of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Chazan, 2011.003.002.
Claudia Widdiss, Hearing Impaired, 1984, slate, Gift of the estate of Hope Drury Goddard in honor of Elizabeth A. Goddard, Director of the Newport Art Museum, 2008-2015, 2014.013.001.
Louise Nevelson, Untitled, 1984, Screenprint with lithograph, Gift of Linda Harrison, 2022.009.001.
Elizabeth Duffy, Napkin Apparition I, 2018, paper napkin embroidered with guard tower, Gift of the Artist, 2022.002.001.
Toots Zynsky, Ansa, filet-de-verre (layered strands of colored glass), 2008, Gift of the Dr. Joseph A. and Helene Chazan Collection, 2008.009.004.
Corita Kent (Sister Mary Corita), Be of love, 1982, serigraph, Gift of Mrs. James Rush Beeler, 1996.008.012.
Nafis M. White, Oculus - Purple/Black/Gray/Crimson/Blonde, 2019, Hair, Embodied Knowledge, Ancestral Recall, Audacity of Survival, Bobby Pins, Purchased with funds provided by Karl and Teryn Weintz and the Museum Purchase Fund, 2021.001.001.
Meredith Stern, Foraging Moon from the series “Perilous Realm," 2014, collage of linoleum block prints, woodblock print, spray paint stencil, and hand typed history notes on several layers of plexiglass, Purchased with funds provided by Dr. Joseph A. Chazan, 2017.001.002.
Florence Leif, Untitled, 1966, oil on linen, Gift of Paula Martiesian and Ken Carpenter in honor of Nancy Whipple Grinnell, Curator 1998 - 2016, 2016.020.001.