What makes this museum unique and special is that it is a home. A place that Theodate (the Pope family’s daughter) designed and loved. While the collection of art and artifacts was largely collected by her father Alfred. Some of the paintings were moved in (1950’s) many of them have recently been moved back to […]
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute is both an art museum and research center, welcoming visitors year-round to experience its outstanding collections of European and American art in an intimate setting surrounded by the profound natural beauty of the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. Set on a 140-acre campus of expansive lawns, meadows, and walking […]
Hill-Stead Museum
Hill-Stead Museum/ Hill-Stead is the family estate of the Pope family. in Farmington, Connecticut. Designed by Theodate Pope, a student of Occupied 1901 to 1946, by her parents and then with her career-diplomat husband John Wallace Riddle, it has a small and stunning collectionof of French Impressionist paintings and sculpture, prints, ceramics, textiles and furnishings. […]