REOPENING SEPTEMBER 2!
Since closing our doors on July 31, we have taken down the spring exhibitions, repainted the walls, framed new works, written, produced, and placed wall texts, and planned programs and classes. Currently we are installing six new exhibitions and can't wait to welcome you back to the museum for an exciting fall season! Please save the date for our opening reception: Saturday, September 20, 4:00–6:00 pm.
The Addison will reopen after Labor Day on Tuesday, September 2, at 10:00 am. We remain free and open to the public, Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, and Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 pm.
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This exhibition presents work by Tommy Kha, the second recipient of the Addison’s Bartlett H. Hayes Jr. Prize. In his photographs, Kha examines how we construct belonging and otherness, inventing new models for self-portraiture with a critical eye toward the medium’s long history of absences and erasure. Growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, as queer, Asian American, and the child of immigrants, Kha had often been made to feel he was different. Now the artist locates a place for himself, both within the American South and the tradition of photography.
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Family Portrait
This exhibition of photographs from the Addison’s collection explores how artists have engaged with the theme of family over a span of nearly two centuries. Depicting joy, solemnity, humor, and tenderness, these works demonstrate photography’s capacity to capture both the particular and the universal aspects of the family experience.
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Playing to Our Strengths: Highlights from the Permanent Collection
Featuring highlights of the Addison’s collection, this exhibition juxtaposes the “ideal,” bringing together American Impressionist paintings with Pictorialist photography, and the “real,” showcasing works by the Ashcan School and social realist photographs, revealing how American artists grappled with modern life at the turn of the 20th century.
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This exhibition presents the work of the so-called Florida Highwaymen, a loosely affiliated group of 26 African American landscape painters who sold their vivid and expressive tropical scenes door-to-door and out of the trunks of their cars along the coastal roads of Eastern Florida from the 1950s through the 1980s. During this era, the Highwaymen painters produced hundreds of thousands of expressive and shockingly vibrant landscape paintings that captured the rapidly disappearing natural beauty of their region.
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Captive Lands
What does it mean to “capture” the landscape? Organized in dialogue with Making Their Way: The Florida Highwaymen Painters and consisting of works drawn from the Addison’s rich permanent collection, Captive Lands unfolds over five distinct sections, exploring the myriad ways in which the American landscape has been romanticized, exploited, celebrated, commercialized, and conquered from the 19th century to the present day.
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FALL OPENING RECEPTION:
Saturday, September 20, 4:00–6:00 pm
Join us to celebrate our new exhibitions: enjoy great company, light refreshments, and the best of American art! Free and open to the public.
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VIRTUAL TOUR: Making Their Way: The Florida Highwaymen Painters
Wednesday, September 24, 3:00 pm
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Join curator Gordon Wilkins on Zoom to explore the work of the Florida Highwaymen, a loosely affiliated group of 26 African American landscape painters who sold their vivid and expressive tropical scenes door-to-door and out of the trunks of their cars along the coastal roads of Eastern Florida from the 1950s through the 1980s.
This program is presented in partnership with Andover’s Memorial Hall Library.
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VIRTUAL TOUR: Hayes Prize 2025: Tommy Kha, Other Things Uttered
Tuesday, September 30, 3:00 pm
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Join assistant curator Rachel Vogel on Zoom to explore the work of contemporary photographer Tommy Kha, the second recipient of the Addison’s Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr. Prize in this webinar. Kha examines how we construct belonging and otherness through photography, inventing new models for self-portraiture with a critical eye toward the medium’s long history of absences and erasure.
This program is presented in partnership with Andover’s Memorial Hall Library.
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FAMILY PORTRAITS COLLAGE WORKSHOP
Saturday, October 4, 10:30 am–12:30 pm
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Join us at the Addison for ARTful Andover Community Art Making Day and create a collage of the people and things that feel like family to you. Participants are invited to bring their own printed pictures of who you consider family to include in their collage, or send up to 3 pictures to be printed in advance (email pictures to Christine by Oct 1). Drop in any time; no registration required. All ages are welcome!
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Images: from left to right: Tommy Kha, Constellations XXIV, Verplanck, New York (detail), 2024. Archival pigment print. © Tommy Kha; Bill Ravanesi, The Four Vega Brothers, Holyoke, MA (detail), 1982. Chromogenic print, 16 x 20 inches, gift of the artist, 2025.59; Lewis Wickes Hine, Women at Ellis Island (detail), c. 1910. Gelatin silver print, 6 5/8 x 4 5/8 inches. Museum purchase, 2012.14; Robert Frank, Hoover Dam, Nevada (detail), 1955, print later. Gelatin silver print, 12 3/16 x 7 15/16 inches. Gift of Hart Leavitt, by exchange, 1995.9; Harold Newton, River Grass, c. 1970. Oil on board, 24 x 48 inches. Collection of Jonathan Otto (PA 1975, P 2024, 2027); Tommy Kha, Mine IX, Den(tist Room), Whitehaven, Memphis, 2017. Archival pigment print. © Tommy Kha; Tommy Kha, New China (New Lin’s Chinese), Memphis, 2019. Archival pigment print. © Tommy Kha; Sage Sohier, Gordon and Jim with Gordon's mother, 1987. Gelatin silver print. Sybil and Kelly Wise Photo Collection, gift of Sybil and Kelly Wise, 1992.19.80; John Leslie Breck, Untitled (Charles River), 1894. Oil on mahogany wood panel, 9 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches. Gift of Mary (“Molly”) Warner in memory of Hilda Chase Foster (1881–1974), 2024.103; Harold Newton, Sunset in Paradise, c. 1970. Oil on board, 22 x 45 inches. Collection of Jonathan Otto (PA 1975, P 2024, 2027); Robert Adams, Newly Completed Tract House, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1968. Gelatin silver print, 5 11/16 x 5 7/8 inches. Museum purchase, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Funds, 2001.26; Johnny Daniels, Sunset, c. 1968. Oil on board, 30 x 40 inches. Collection of Jonathan Otto (PA 1975, P 2024, 2027); Tommy Kha, Mine VII, Twentynine Palms, California, 2017. Archival pigment print. © Tommy Kha; Eugene Richards, Family Album, Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1976. Gelatin silver print, 8 1/4 x 12 inches, museum purchase, 1977.134
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Exhibition and program credits:
Generous support for Making Their Way: The Florida Highwaymen Painters has been provided by Bernard I. Lumpkin and Carmine D. Boccuzzi and the Arthur and Vivian Schulte Exhibitions Fund.
Hayes Prize 2025: Tommy Kha, Other Things Uttered is sponsored by the Addison Artist Council (AAC), AAC
Founder-level member Jason S. Tyler, (PA 2001), and the Edward E. Elson Artist-in-Residence Fund.
Generous support for Family Portrait has been provided by the Winton Family Fund.
Generous support for Playing to Our Strengths: Highlights from the Permanent Collection has been provided by the Mollie Bennett Lupe & Garland M. Lasater Exhibitions Fund.
Captive Lands is generously supported by the Sidney R. Knafel Fund.
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