The museum's collection of more than 5,000 pieces includes paintings, works on paper, sculpture, and decorative objects focused on art of the natural world.
The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum collection began with birds and then took flight to encompass and embrace the art of the natural world. Today, more than 14,000 works of art, including paintings, drawings and field sketches, graphics, photographs, and sculpture, celebrate the essence and spirit of birds from around the world.
The collection also includes decorative arts: more than 125 Victorian glass baskets, early twentieth-century utilitarian and decorative glassware and porcelains, nearly 100 Royal Worcester porcelain bird figurines designed by Dorothy Doughty, and a survey collection of historic and contemporary glass vessel forms and sculptural objects.
Exhibitions change throughout the year, housed in an English Tudor home which has been renovated and expanded to include a 2-story gallery and a 9,000 square foot addition on landscaped grounds that feature outdoor sculpture.
Exhibitions & Dates
Women Reframe American Landscape: - Susie Barstow & Her Circle / Contemporary Practices
May 4 2024 - Aug 25 2024
Women Hudson River School painters alongside work by contemporary women artists
Survival of the Fittest: Envisioning Wildlife and Wilderness with the Big Four - Masterworks from the Rijksmuseum Twenthe and the National Museum of Wildlife Art
Dec 7 2024 - Feb 25 2025
Four late 1800s and early 1900s artists' vision of wildlife and wilderness