The New Britain Museum of American Art- a beautiful museum and worth the trip.  There is a significant concentration of post-Civil War figural painting and sculpture, including works by Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, J. Alden Weir, George de Forest Brush, Joseph DeCamp, Frank Benson, William Paxton, Elizabeth Nourse, and nineteen plasters and bronzes by Solon Borglum.

Dana Levin and her husband, Adam, and the painting “Independence” that was awarded first place.  That is quite a “bump”!!!