The Museum is open Wednesday - Saturday 11 - 4, Sunday 12 - 4.
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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.
As a valued Newport Art Museum member you're entitled to free admission, are invited to members' only events and exhibition tours, receive discounts on Museum School class tuition and public program tickets, and will be supporting the Museum's mission to share a diversity of art and experiences to our Newport community and beyond.
By supporting the Newport Art Museum Annual Fund at any level, you help make a positive difference in the lives of many. Our exhibitions, public programs, education, and community outreach, which includes a diversity of artistic voices, would not be possible without you. Help the Newport Art Museum continue to spark reflection, inspiration, discovery and build lasting connections by making your tax-deductible contribution today. We thank you for believing in the transformative power of art and allowing us to make art accessible to all for generations to come. Help the Newport Art Museum continue to spark reflection, inspiration, discovery, and build connections by making your tax-deductible contribution TODAY!
Are you a business owner who is looking for new ways to engage and connect with local Newport customers on a year round basis? We have the perfect opportunity. Sponsor a Newport tradition - The Newport Art Museum - Make NAM part of your marketing plan in 2025. We have an array of events and exhibits to offer you. Our first exciting event is the 2025 Winter Speaker Series in its 97th Year.
$20.00 Per person
In celebration of the 31st annual Wet Paint, we’ve partnered with some of the loveliest private gardens and open spaces to offer artists special en plein air painting opportunities!
Bring your art supplies and enjoy a morning of quiet art making among other artists at the beautiful Bellevue Gardens in Newport, followed by a celebratory cool drink in the garden.
Ronald Lee Fleming, founder and President of The Townscape Institute, purchased Bellevue House in 1999. Since that time, restoration and revival have been the words of the day, inside and out. Ogden Codman, Jr., the architect of Bellevue House, was a proponent of the Federal style practiced by Samuel McIntyre of Salem, who was influenced by the 18th century classical revival architectural style of the Adams brothers of Scotland. Codman designed the Bellevue House for his cousin, Martha, in 1910. This distinguished house rises three stories with windows in decreasing heights to give a proportional elegance to the facade. A balustrade is set just above the eave line, and the pitch of the roof is almost flat. An elliptical fanlight surmounts the front door, along with paired sidelights, thus illuminating the entrance vestibule. The double-story portico with fluted Corinthian capitals is a striking expression of the classical ideal.
Highlights of the Bellevue House gardens include meticulously designed allées, follies, and ornamental pools, a lyrical oriental water garden bursting with water lilies, and whimsical monkey sculptures sitting atop deceased Fagus sylvatica trunks. A massive Horsechestnut predates the house built in 1910, and is suspected to be the oldest and largest on Aquidneck Island. An immense Fernleaf Beech creates a natural sheltered space where a moss garden thrives and branches of the “mother” beech have layered into the surrounding earth. Other specimen trees include a magnificent Scots Pine, Hemsley Snowball, massive English Yews, Turkey Oak, and European Ash.
Wet Paint boards will be available for pick up at the Newport Art Museum, or upon arrival at the garden, or you can bring your own base material.
Learn more about Wet Paint!
Space is limited, registration is required.