Museum is located at 600 Main St. in dowtown Hartford.   Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 11-5 (also 1st Thurs. of each month, 5-8 p.m.).   Admission for University of Hartford students is free with student ID.  Museum phone: 278-2670 (directions, etc.).

The following paintings now on exhibit are of particular interest for this course:
Hilles Gallery (1st floor, straight ahead)
Goya, Gossiping Women

Huntington Gallery (1st floor, to the right)
Vernet, Seascape:  the Storm

Morgan Great Hall  (1st floor, right)
Brown, Louis XVI Saying Farewell to His Family
West, Una and the Lion
Trumbull, Belisarius

Victorian Gallery (2nd floor, right rear)
Maclise, The Disenchantment of Bottom

Eighteenth Century American Art  (3rd floor, mid right)
Vanderlyn, The Murder of Jane McCrea

Thomas Cole Gallery  (3rd floor, right rear)
Cole, Mount Aetna from Taormina, View of Monte Video (a Hartford scene), View on Lake Winnipiseogee, View of the White Mountains, Roman Compagna, Scene from The Last of the Mohicans
[While you're there, be sure to look at Landscape, Composition:  St. John in the Wilderness, on your study list!]

Hudson River School Gallery (3rd floor, center rear)
Church, Vale of St. Thomas, Jamaica
Bierstadt, In the Mountains

**Nineteenth Century European Painting (3rd floor, front right)
Delacroix, Bathing Women
Copy of David, Lictors Bring Back to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons
Gericault, The Village Forge
Delacroix, Tiger Drinking
Constable, Weymouth Bay
 

Also check out Gengras Court, first floor rear:  esp. Picasso's Women of Algiers (after Delacroix), in comparison with Delacroix's Algerian Women, figs. 180 and 190 in our Vaughan text.
Note:  The Atheneum also has an excellent art library (to the left as you enter):  open Tues., Thurs., and Sat. 11-5.  It contains a wide range of materials plus further information on various paintings in the collection.  (If you use it, be sure to give appropriate credit, as explained earlier in essay packet.)