CURATOR TALK | Peter Waite: Social Memory, Paintings 1987–2025 with Laura Leonard

Sat, 03 Jan, 2026 at 01:00 pm UTC-05:00

600 Main Street, Hartford, CT, United States, Connecticut 06103 | Hartford

Publisher/HostWadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

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$CURATOR TALK | Peter Waite: Social Memory, Paintings 1987\u20132025 with Laura Leonard$

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1PM | FREE WITH ADMISSION | Reservations encouraged via thewadsworth.org
Artist Peter Waite’s large-scale paintings of sites in New England and Europe address the transitional nature of public spaces. Exhibition curator Laura Leonard discusses how the absence of human figures in Waite’s paintings conveys a certain depth and
range of emotions. Meet outside the Museum Shop.

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