For 60 years, Sheldon Museum of Art has provided a venue for students, faculty and staff, alumni, and visitors to engage with art and one another. As an academic art museum, Sheldon schedules its exhibitions to coincide with the academic calendar.
This exhibition celebrates the unprecedented gift of more than ninety works donated by fifty American photographers to honor the writer Barry Lopez, best known for Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape, which received the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1986. More info
Room in New York, one of the museum’s most esteemed paintings, is presented alongside works that contextualize Edward Hopper’s history and role among the early twentieth-century artists who shaped modern American art. More info
This exhibition presents a snapshot of a point in the evolution of Sheldon’s holdings, surveying the 1,850 artworks that entered the collection from 2012 through 2022. More info
Exhibited in conjunction with X: A Decade of Collecting, this group of prints, drawings, and photographs is a representative selection of the 1,517 works on paper that entered the collection from 2012 through 2022. More info
Building on the adjoining exhibition Beyond Eve and Mary, this exhibition examines twentieth- and twenty-first-century representations of women in art. More info
Presenting a snapshot of a point in the evolution of Sheldon’s holdings, X: A Decade of Collecting is a survey of the 1,850 artworks that have entered the collection since 2012. More info
Through thematic groupings of artworks, this exhibition examines representations of two biblical figures—Eve and Mary—and asks viewers to consider how multifaceted gender could be in the premodern period. More info
This exhibition celebrates the unprecedented gift of more than ninety works donated by fifty American photographers to honor the writer Barry Lopez, best known for Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape, which received the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1986. More info
Sheldon Museum celebrates early entries into the collection with a selection of historic acquisitions made prior to the opening of the museum’s current building in 1963. More info
At the intersection of abstraction, allusion, and depiction, the artist and viewer share equally in the creation of a work’s meaning. Storyville presents works from the museum’s collection that vacillate between recognizable subject matter and abstraction, providing various readings of each narrative. More info