LAST CHANCE!
Just days left to see our current exhibitions—these spectacular shows will close on Thursday, July 31, at 5:00 pm!
The Addison is 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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NOTE: The museum will be closed for the month of August as we reinstall our galleries. We look forward to seeing you again in the fall with all new exhibitions!
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June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart will travel to the Grey Art Museum at New York University this fall (on view September 9–December 13, 2025)
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Hayes Prize 2025:
Tommy Kha, Other Things Uttered
Opens September 2
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.
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Making Their Way: The Florida Highwaymen Painters
Opens September 9
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.
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Family Portrait (opens September 2)
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 (opens September 2)
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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Captive Lands (opens September 9)
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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SAVE THE DATE: FALL OPENING RECEPTION
Join us in celebrating our new exhibitions: enjoy great company, light refreshments, and the best of American art! Free and open to the public.
Saturday, September 20, 4:00–6:00 pm
Additional programs to be announced soon!
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Images: June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart installation view, photo by Julia Featheringill; June Leaf, Head, 1975. Ink and colored pencil on paper, 13 7/8 x 19 7/8 inches. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee, 2016.134. © The Estate of June Leaf. Photo: Digital image © Whitney Museum of American Art / Licensed by Scala / Art Resource, NY; Alec Soth, Two Towels, 2004. Archival pigment print, 24 x 30 inches. Purchased as the gift of David Corkins, 2024.138; Edward Hopper, Freight Cars, Gloucester, 1928, oil on canvas, 29 x 40 1/8 inches, gift of Edward Wales Root in recognition of the 25th Anniversary of the Addison Gallery, 1956.7; George Bellows, The Circus, 1912. Oil on canvas, 33 7/8 x 44 inches. Gift of Elizabeth Paine Metcalf, 1947.8; Tommy Kha, Constellations (XVIII), Whitehaven, Memphis, 2019, © Tommy Kha; Alfred Hair, Tourists, c. 1959. Oil on canvas, 25 x 30 inches. Collection of Jonathan Otto (PA ‘75, P ‘24, ‘27); Bill Ravanesi, The Four Vega Brothers, Holyoke, MA, 1982. Chromogenic print, 16 x 20 inches. Gift of the artist, 2025.59; Maria Oakey Dewing, A Bed of Poppies, 1909. Oil on canvas, 25 1/8 x 30 1/8 inches. Gift of anonymous donor, 1931.2; Victoria Sambunaris, Untitled (Border fence), near Naco, Arizona, 2010. Chromogenic print, 59 x 55 inches. Museum purchase, 2024.132
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Exhibition and program credits:
June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart is co-organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art and the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College. Major support for this project has been provided by the Estate of June Leaf with additional funding provided by The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation (formerly the Andrea Frank Foundation), John and Sally Van Doren (PA 1980), and the Allen Memorial Art Museum’s John H. ’29 and Marjorie Fox ’29 Wieland Current-Use AMAM Support Fund.
Generous support for Dynamic Duos has been provided by the Francesca S. Woodman Exhibitions Fund.
Playing to Our Strengths: Highlights from the Permanent Collection (spring 2025) is generously supported by the Bernard and Louise Palitz Exhibitions Fund.
Generous support for On and Off Stage: Performance and Persona has been provided by the Winton Family Exhibition 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 (fall 2025) 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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