Collection & Exhibitions

Twenty-eight thousand works, three exhibitions, one slow afternoon.

The Halden holds approximately 28,000 objects across painting, photography, sculpture, drawing, and time-based media. Roughly five percent are on view at any moment — rotated quarterly, hung at human scale, accompanied by notes written by the curators who chose them.

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Loan exhibition · West Wing

Quiet Rooms: Hammershøi and the Interior

3 October 2026 — 17 January 2027 · Galleries 22—27

Sixty-two paintings, twelve drawings, and a single short film. The most comprehensive American showing of Vilhelm Hammershøi’s work in three decades, organized by The Halden in collaboration with the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen.

Curated by Dr. Karen Engelmann, with Dr. Mads Holck (SMK).

View featured work Catalogue (320 pp.)

Hammershøi, Interior, Strandgade 30, 1901

Vilhelm Hammershøi (Danish, 1864—1916). Interior, Strandgade 30, 1901. Oil on canvas, 66 × 56 cm. On loan, SMK Copenhagen, inv. KMS 3815.

Hammershøi worked in the apartment at Strandgade 30 for nine years. He painted its rooms — five rooms — more than ninety times. He moved out in 1909 and went on painting the same rooms from memory until 1914, two years before his death. Quiet Rooms brings together for the first time a near-complete sequence of these interiors, alongside the smaller, equally austere portraits of his wife Ida and the late landscapes that almost no one knows.

The exhibition arrives in Boston after stops in Copenhagen and London. It will not travel further.

Krasner, Stretched Yellow, 1959

Lee Krasner (American, 1908—1984). Stretched Yellow, 1959. Oil on canvas, 213 × 178 cm. Halden Acquisitions Committee Fund, 1974.

From the collection · Wright Galleries

After the Garden: American Color, 1945—1975

Ongoing · Galleries 14—18

Forty-one paintings drawn entirely from the Halden’s collection. A loose argument, hung in five rooms, that what happened to American color in the three decades after the war was less a single movement than a quiet conversation across studios in New York, East Hampton, and the Bay Area.

Curated by James Okafor-Greer, Curator of Postwar American Art.

Audio tour (37 min.) Reading list

Mid-career survey · Lower Level

Susanna Vance: A Survey

12 September 2026 — 8 March 2027 · Galleries L1—L4

The first museum survey of the American photographer Susanna Vance (b. 1971). One hundred and four prints, drawn from the four houses Vance has photographed since 1986 — three in Maine, one outside Marfa — and accompanied by a room of her working notebooks.

Curated by Helena Marsh, Curator of Photography.

View Bay Window, Late Afternoon

Vance, Bay Window, Late Afternoon, 2019

Susanna Vance (American, b. 1971). Bay Window, Late Afternoon, 2019. Gelatin silver print, 40.6 × 50.8 cm. Gift of the Halden Acquisitions Committee, 2021.

Upcoming

Spring 2027.

Diebenkorn, Ocean Park No. 79 (study)

Loan exhibition · Opens 12 February 2027 Diebenkorn at Ocean Park Twenty-eight late paintings and eighty-two drawings, organized with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. A reconsideration of the Ocean Park series alongside the small, surprising works on paper that Diebenkorn made beside them.

Saar, Mojotech (working title)

Commission · Opens 4 April 2027 Alison Saar: Sculpture Court Commission A new bronze and reclaimed-tin work commissioned for the Sculpture Court. Saar’s first museum commission on the East Coast since 2018.

Permanent collection