A new exhibit at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art entitled “Hidden Treasures”, works from the permanent collection, featuring a broad array of art from around the world and spanning the centuries, was enticing enough to draw me in quickly to see what had been down in storage. I especially enjoyed seeing some drypoint etchings by John Sloan and Edward Hopper, and a series of colorful, if understated, silkscreen prints by a variety of artists such as Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Motherwell. A display of pre-Columbian Mexican artifacts was also of keen interest.The museum is doing some updating and has temporarily relocated some artwork to new exhibition rooms. It was good to see some old favorites, like a rather unique Van Gogh self portrait, hanging in a new location, with new friends in its midst.
The highlight of the visit had to be viewing two striking paintings by Balthus, but, aren’t they all?
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