Currier Museum of Art

Currier Museum of Art Review

A modern Sol LeWitt mural faces the original 1929 Italianate entrance to a permanent collection of European and American paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts from the 13th to the 20th century, including works by Edouard Monet, Picasso, Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, and Georgia O'Keeffe. A major 2008 expansion more than doubled the gallery space and created a new shop, visitor entrance, café, and a winter garden. Also run by the Currier (tours depart from the museum) is the nearby Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Zimmerman House, built in 1950. Wright called this sparse, utterly functional living space "Usonian," an invented term used to describe 50 such middle-income homes he built with his vision of distinctly American architecture. It's New England's only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed residence open to the public.