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| The Newport Art Museum is housed in three buildings on a 2-acre Bellevue Avenue campus in Newport's most exclusive neighborhood (map). | ||
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The museum specializes in the art of Newport and southeastern New England, both historical and modern, from the late 18th century to the present time. Featured artists include James Baker, George Bellows, Dale Chihuly, Howard Gardiner Cushing, Lydia Field Emmett, George Inness, John Frederick Kensett, John La Farge, Fitz Henry Lane, Joseph Norman, William Trost Richards, Rita Rogers, Gilbert Stuart, Helena Sturtevant, and Howard Ben Tre. The museum also organizes many special exhibitions on a variety of subjects. Most of the exhibits are in the Griswold House (1864), a stick-style mansion designed by Richard Morris Hunt, and in the Cushing Gallery, a 1919 neo-classical building. Newport Art Museum
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Richard Morris Hunt's stick-style Griswold House, home of the Newport Art Museum.
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