Smith College Museum of Art
Smith College Museum of Art
Smith College Museum of Art
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Kristina T
Raleigh, NC2 Beiträge
Nov. 2022 • Familie
We went many years ago when my daughter was at Smith (the year we went is not among the possible choices). It is a beautiful museum; by all means see all the bathrooms, admire the handmade benches, and enjoy the art. A lovely afternoon can be spent here.
Verfasst am 23. Oktober 2023
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Adventure Diva
Manchester, CT2.167 Beiträge
Jan. 2023 • Allein/Single
There is a temporary exhibit through May 2023 by artist Agano Machiko that peaked my interest in visiting the museum. Agano is known for her fiber art installations. Fishing line, stainless steel wire and paper are center stage throught one of the room's gallery space. These knit forms hang majestically. I'm glad I went.
Verfasst am 28. Januar 2023
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jfadds
Naperville, IL4.782 Beiträge
Juni 2022 • Paare
Granted it is a well endowed elite school- however this does not guarantee a first class art museum like they have.
Spread over 3 floors- the permanent collection is on 2 and 3.
There is a small contemporary exhibit on 1 with traveling shows.
Street parking is available- definitely worth a visit.
Spread over 3 floors- the permanent collection is on 2 and 3.
There is a small contemporary exhibit on 1 with traveling shows.
Street parking is available- definitely worth a visit.
Verfasst am 20. Juni 2022
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Francesca Beatr... M
Kill Devil Hills, NC27 Beiträge
Jan. 2020 • Freunde
Smith College Museum has a lot of nice artwork. I was glad to see so many art pieces from many well-known artists.
Verfasst am 23. Februar 2020
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Michael G
Boston, Massachusetts, United States65 Beiträge
Feb. 2020
Surprisingly large and interesting collection, located in beautiful Northampton. Couldn't finish a visit here in a single visit. And it is affordable. Definitely recommended!
Verfasst am 16. Februar 2020
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kzsull01
Windsor, CT365 Beiträge
Feb. 2020
My husband and I visited the Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton, Massachusetts, on Sunday, February 9, 2020. It is definitely worth visiting. The museum has four floors of a very nice mixture of various types of high quality art organized by time period and type of art, all well laid out and well curated. Both the overviews describing the art on display in each gallery and the detailed descriptions of each individual item on display are nicely done, quite informative, and comprehensive, representing a good lesson in multiple aspects of art, history, religion, various cultures and social and political issues.
We enjoyed our visit finding the permanent collection very impressive and special exhibits to be interesting and educational. We recommend the museum and we hope you have the opportunity to enjoy it as well.
We spent about an hour and a half at the museum, based on the amount of time available to us, but we could easily have spent at least two hours there. We parked on the street in front of the museum, on the opposite side of the street from the museum. The metered parking on Sunday was free with respect to where we parked.
Special Exhibits:
All the current special exhibits are very interesting, unique, insightful and educational. The following gives more details about each exhibit.
We started our visit with the special exhibit entitled ‘Black Refractions – Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem’, which is on both the first and lower level floors. The exhibit celebrates the Studio Museum’s strong role as the nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally and for work inspired and influenced by black culture. This exhibit, which has a wide variety of different types of artwork on display, is a very nice tribute to the artists of the Studio Museum of Harlem.
‘A Dust Bowl of Dog Soup, Picturing the Great Depression’, is in the Works on Paper Gallery on the second floor. It displays the work by photographers and artists created during the depression to help convince the American people and Congress of the urgent need to secure the Heartland’s recovery by conveying the harsh reality of that area of America. This artwork documented and helped shape how people saw the Depression, broadening their awareness beyond their own situation. The photographs and prints on display, which have historical significance, were used by the government in newspaper and magazine articles to illustrate the urgent need for change.
‘Buddhas/Buddhisms Across and Beyond Asia’ is on the lower level. It depicts how Buddhism is one of the few cultural traditions that has connected distinctive Asian populations over time and how this religion and its practices have continued to adapt to new contexts and believers. It gives a history of “Buddha” and Buddhism and illustrates how Buddhist imagery and art have been transformed by each culture the religion encountered. Nicely presented in the exhibit are Buddhist objects and artist images from across and beyond Asia and their many and varied styles and expressions.
The special exhibit on the third floor entitled ‘Object Histories: From the African Continent to the SCMA Galleries’ traces the unique histories of over twenty of the museum’s most important works of African Art. The purpose of this exhibit is to reunite these objects with certain aspects of their histories in order to connect us with the people who created and collected these works of art and to give proper recognition to these people. It interestingly illustrates a variety of different types of objects, including those that served as status symbols, personal objects and objects related to performance. The cultural histories and meanings of the objects are examined along with the role of their collectors and donors. This exhibit is quite unique.
Permanent Exhibits:
The permanent exhibits on both the second and third floors are quite impressive and very educational. They provide good historical context and great background information on the evolution of various types of art and techniques in art. We really enjoy them each time that we visit the museum. Below are more details about these exhibits.
Second Floor (Permanent Collection):
The second floor permanent exhibit displays art created before 1800 from America, the Ancient World and Europe. The major theme is ‘Sacred and Secular’ artwork, showing how secular and sacred concepts and imagery intersected across time and place. A global view of the Ancient World is described with objects spanning many cultures and time periods that shared similarities despite originating in various political, social and religious contexts. The artwork includes beautiful ceramics, dishes, plates, bowls, figurines, jewelry, coins, sculptures, and paintings.
Topics on beauty in Ancient Greece, the new Egyptian kingdom, gardens in Ancient Rome, ceramics and stone working in the Ancient Mediterranean; Materials and Techniques of Medieval Art; and private and public devotion in Western Europe are illustrated through artwork and nice informative write-ups. Art reflecting teachings and traditions of the Christian Church from 1150 – 1650, paintings during the Dutch Golden Age showing a strong realist approach to art, 18th Century Anglo-American Portraits, and transatlantic influences are also nicely illustrated.
Third Floor (Permanent Collection):
The third floor permanent exhibit has traditional and new and innovative forms of artwork created after 1800 from Africa, America, and Europe with the alternating pattern of ‘Tradition and Transformation’ woven throughout the works of art from 1800 -1950.in these galleries. Multiple topics are very nicely illustrated and explained through write-ups and specific artwork. This included ‘French and American Landscape Traditions: The Barbizon School and Hudson River School’, with views of nature at a time of rapid change; ‘American Art from 1800 -1850, Being a Self-Taught Tradition’, expressing an American identity; ‘The Two Traditions of Neoclassical and Romanticism in French Art’; and ‘Impressionisms in France and in the United States’, moving away from the traditionally dark tonalities of the Barbizon School of Landscape Painting to Impressionist paintings having more brighter palettes and flickering brush strokes to capture the effects of light.
Details on the French Artist Edgar Degas are nicely displayed in ‘Degas: From Tradition to Innovation – the Evolution of an Artist’. The exhibit depicts Degas as always maintaining his traditional skills as a colorist and draftsman, even in his scenes of modern life, but being more experimental when working with sculpture and evolving toward greater abstraction in his later work.
‘Ruptures in Representation’ interestingly depicts a period of transformation with artists moving towards abstract modes of representation caused by the political divisions and the destruction and despair of World War I. Several new stylistic movements were influential during this time, including by Cubist artists, such as Pablo Picasso, who combined multiple viewpoints and overlapping visual planes to create a fractured image of reality. Other artists represented their emotions and anxiety through distorted shapes and forceful color.
In addition, the Arts and Crafts Movement, American Realism (1875 – 1915), based on truthful observation of the modern world; and the Modernism (from 1929) Movements are nicely illustrated in the artwork within the third floor galleries..
This museum has much to offer, much, much, more than what I mention here, and is definitely worth visiting.
We enjoyed our visit finding the permanent collection very impressive and special exhibits to be interesting and educational. We recommend the museum and we hope you have the opportunity to enjoy it as well.
We spent about an hour and a half at the museum, based on the amount of time available to us, but we could easily have spent at least two hours there. We parked on the street in front of the museum, on the opposite side of the street from the museum. The metered parking on Sunday was free with respect to where we parked.
Special Exhibits:
All the current special exhibits are very interesting, unique, insightful and educational. The following gives more details about each exhibit.
We started our visit with the special exhibit entitled ‘Black Refractions – Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem’, which is on both the first and lower level floors. The exhibit celebrates the Studio Museum’s strong role as the nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally and for work inspired and influenced by black culture. This exhibit, which has a wide variety of different types of artwork on display, is a very nice tribute to the artists of the Studio Museum of Harlem.
‘A Dust Bowl of Dog Soup, Picturing the Great Depression’, is in the Works on Paper Gallery on the second floor. It displays the work by photographers and artists created during the depression to help convince the American people and Congress of the urgent need to secure the Heartland’s recovery by conveying the harsh reality of that area of America. This artwork documented and helped shape how people saw the Depression, broadening their awareness beyond their own situation. The photographs and prints on display, which have historical significance, were used by the government in newspaper and magazine articles to illustrate the urgent need for change.
‘Buddhas/Buddhisms Across and Beyond Asia’ is on the lower level. It depicts how Buddhism is one of the few cultural traditions that has connected distinctive Asian populations over time and how this religion and its practices have continued to adapt to new contexts and believers. It gives a history of “Buddha” and Buddhism and illustrates how Buddhist imagery and art have been transformed by each culture the religion encountered. Nicely presented in the exhibit are Buddhist objects and artist images from across and beyond Asia and their many and varied styles and expressions.
The special exhibit on the third floor entitled ‘Object Histories: From the African Continent to the SCMA Galleries’ traces the unique histories of over twenty of the museum’s most important works of African Art. The purpose of this exhibit is to reunite these objects with certain aspects of their histories in order to connect us with the people who created and collected these works of art and to give proper recognition to these people. It interestingly illustrates a variety of different types of objects, including those that served as status symbols, personal objects and objects related to performance. The cultural histories and meanings of the objects are examined along with the role of their collectors and donors. This exhibit is quite unique.
Permanent Exhibits:
The permanent exhibits on both the second and third floors are quite impressive and very educational. They provide good historical context and great background information on the evolution of various types of art and techniques in art. We really enjoy them each time that we visit the museum. Below are more details about these exhibits.
Second Floor (Permanent Collection):
The second floor permanent exhibit displays art created before 1800 from America, the Ancient World and Europe. The major theme is ‘Sacred and Secular’ artwork, showing how secular and sacred concepts and imagery intersected across time and place. A global view of the Ancient World is described with objects spanning many cultures and time periods that shared similarities despite originating in various political, social and religious contexts. The artwork includes beautiful ceramics, dishes, plates, bowls, figurines, jewelry, coins, sculptures, and paintings.
Topics on beauty in Ancient Greece, the new Egyptian kingdom, gardens in Ancient Rome, ceramics and stone working in the Ancient Mediterranean; Materials and Techniques of Medieval Art; and private and public devotion in Western Europe are illustrated through artwork and nice informative write-ups. Art reflecting teachings and traditions of the Christian Church from 1150 – 1650, paintings during the Dutch Golden Age showing a strong realist approach to art, 18th Century Anglo-American Portraits, and transatlantic influences are also nicely illustrated.
Third Floor (Permanent Collection):
The third floor permanent exhibit has traditional and new and innovative forms of artwork created after 1800 from Africa, America, and Europe with the alternating pattern of ‘Tradition and Transformation’ woven throughout the works of art from 1800 -1950.in these galleries. Multiple topics are very nicely illustrated and explained through write-ups and specific artwork. This included ‘French and American Landscape Traditions: The Barbizon School and Hudson River School’, with views of nature at a time of rapid change; ‘American Art from 1800 -1850, Being a Self-Taught Tradition’, expressing an American identity; ‘The Two Traditions of Neoclassical and Romanticism in French Art’; and ‘Impressionisms in France and in the United States’, moving away from the traditionally dark tonalities of the Barbizon School of Landscape Painting to Impressionist paintings having more brighter palettes and flickering brush strokes to capture the effects of light.
Details on the French Artist Edgar Degas are nicely displayed in ‘Degas: From Tradition to Innovation – the Evolution of an Artist’. The exhibit depicts Degas as always maintaining his traditional skills as a colorist and draftsman, even in his scenes of modern life, but being more experimental when working with sculpture and evolving toward greater abstraction in his later work.
‘Ruptures in Representation’ interestingly depicts a period of transformation with artists moving towards abstract modes of representation caused by the political divisions and the destruction and despair of World War I. Several new stylistic movements were influential during this time, including by Cubist artists, such as Pablo Picasso, who combined multiple viewpoints and overlapping visual planes to create a fractured image of reality. Other artists represented their emotions and anxiety through distorted shapes and forceful color.
In addition, the Arts and Crafts Movement, American Realism (1875 – 1915), based on truthful observation of the modern world; and the Modernism (from 1929) Movements are nicely illustrated in the artwork within the third floor galleries..
This museum has much to offer, much, much, more than what I mention here, and is definitely worth visiting.
Verfasst am 12. Februar 2020
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Prizzis
Zürich, Schweiz365 Beiträge
Aug. 2019 • Paare
We visited the College Museum of Art in Northampton rather by coincidence as it was a rainy day - to our surprise we found a jewel of museum with a wide selection of paintings. Interesting paintings from American artists and beautiful examples from some world famous painter especially from impressionism, also some fine modern art - and last but not least the nicest museum restrooms we’ve ever seen! This museum is really worth to be visited.
Verfasst am 21. August 2019
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Maggie_Oakshot
Northampton, MA358 Beiträge
Juli 2019 • Familie
As locals now, we joined this to support it. But nevertheless it's always a delight to go and see what's new.
Verfasst am 5. August 2019
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BlackBear1959
Ottawa, Kanada88 Beiträge
Juli 2019 • Paare
You don't have to be an connoisseur to appreciate the excellent collection of fine art available at the SCMA. There is more here than you realize so allow plenty of time. For just $5 you can view a Picasso, Monet, Gauguin or Edward Hopper among many others. This is a real treasure in Western Massachusetts that should not be missed!
Verfasst am 23. Juli 2019
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Annie K
New York City, NY254 Beiträge
Juni 2019 • Paare
Wonderful museum. Saw the Plastic exhibit which was very interesting. Loved the paintings from different periods. I wish I could have had more time.
Verfasst am 2. Juli 2019
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- (0.16 km) India House Restaurant
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