Coney Island at the Wadsworth Atheneum

It you haven't gotten there yet, there is still time to to get to Hartford for the exhibition: Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861–2008 January 31, 2015 – May 31, 2015. 

The exhibition which is curated by Dr. Robin Jaffe Frank features 140 objects including drawings, paintings, photographs, prints, posters, architectural artifacts and carousel animals with the addition of ephemera and film clips. 

According to the Atheneum website the exhibit has "early depictions of “the people’s beach” by Impressionists William Merritt Chase and John Henry Twachtman to modern and contemporary images by photographers Diane Arbus and Walker Evans, Red Grooms, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Reginald Marsh, Joseph Stella, Swoon and George Tooker, Coney Island investigates America’s playground as a place and an idea."

The exhibit will be going on tour and visit: 

• San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, July 11, 2015 – October 13, 2015
• Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, November 20, 2015 – March 13, 2016
• McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, May 11, 2016 – September 11, 2016