Lyman Allyn Art Museum
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The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is located in New London, Connecticut. The museum was established in 1926 by Harriet Upson Allyn who named it for her father. There are over 15,000 works in the permanent collection of the museum, featuring a prominent collection of American art, with paintings by John Trumbull, Rembrandt Peale, Thomas Cole, Frederick Edwin Church, and Albert Bierstadt.
The collection is housed in a neoclassical building designed by Charles Platt and completed in 1932. It is located on a 20 acre campus.
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- Handbook of the Lyman Allyn Museum, Eastern Press, Inc, New Haven, 1976.
- American Artists Abroad and their Inspiration: Selections from the lyman Allyn Art Museum, essays by Nancy Stula and Christopher Steiner, 2004.
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