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The Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest public art museum in the United States, with significant holdings of French and American Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School landscapes, modernist masterpieces and contemporary works, as well as extensive holdings in early American furniture and decorative arts. It is located in a distinctive castle-like building in downtown Hartford, Connecticut, the state's capital.
The museum, with 196,000 square feet (18,200 m), is the largest art museum in the...
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