exhibits


2014 — Solo Exhibition, Through the Eyes of Richard Welling, drawings, prints and sketches, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT

2014 — Solo Exhibition, (Re)Building Hartford: A City Captured by Artist Richard Welling, drawings, prints, artist’s tools and equipment, The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT

2010 — Posthumous exhibit and tribute to Richard Welling, including drawings, prints and memorabilia, Hartford History Center at Hartford Public Library, Hartford, CT

2008 — Triptych Panorama Including the North (74 Stories) and South Towers (26 Stories) Under Construction, 1970 exhibited in “Drawn by New York: Six Centuries of Watercolors and Drawings at the New-York Historical Society,” New-York Historical Society, New York, NY

2002 — Solo Exhibition, Richard Welling’s WTC, drawings of the construction of the World Trade Center, Luce Center, New-York Historical Society, New York, NY

2002 — Online group exhibition, drawings of the construction of the World Trade Center, Museum of the City of New York,
New York, NY

1991 — Solo Exhibition, Drawings by Richard Welling, Town and County Club, Hartford, CT

1987 — Group Exhibition, House, portraits of Connecticut houses by Carl Henry, Sally Pinney, and Richard Welling, Noah Webster House, West Hartford, CT

1984 — Group Exhibition, marking the fiftieth anniversary of the West Hartford Art League, Salt Box Gallery, West Hartford, CT

1982 — Solo Exhibition, drawings of the construction of the CityPlace building, Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT

1981 — Group Exhibition, “The Tree and the City Exhibit,” a citywide exhibit exploring the history of the Charter Oak tree and Hartford insurance, including an exhibit of Hartford drawings by Richard Welling at the Linden building, Hartford, CT

1980 — Group Exhibition and Benefit Sale, to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association, Contempo Gallery, Hartford, CT

1979 — Solo Exhibition, Drawings by Richard Welling, Town and County Club, Hartford, CT

1977 — Two-Person Exhibition, drawings by Richard Welling and photographs by Richard Daley, CT Bank and Trust Company, Hartford, CT

1975 — Two-Person Exhibition, drawings by Richard Welling and paintings by Rik Ponchak, Manchester Community College Stairwell Gallery, Manchester, CT

1975 — Solo Exhibition, pen and ink drawings, Village Gallery, Talcottville, CT

1975 — Two-Person Exhibition, Two Artists Views of Hartford: Mary Shipman and Richard Welling, Hartford Architecture Conservancy, Hartford, CT

1970s — Group Exhibition, self-portrait, Richard Welling, First Connecticut Illustrators Exhibition

1968 — Group Exhibition, Sunday Morning, drawing by Richard Welling, National Arts Club, New York, NY

1966 — Solo Exhibition, drawings of the Hartford National Bank building program, Town and Country Club, Hartford, CT

1965 — Two-Person Exhibition, PHOTOgraphics, drawings of architecture and machines by Richard Welling and abstract photographs of scrap metal by Edward Saxe, Austin Art Center, Trinity College, Hartford, CT

 

Collections

Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT

Hartford History Center of the Hartford Public Library, Hartford, CT

New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT

New Haven Museum, New Haven, CT

New-York Historical Society, New York, NY

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Numerous private and corporate collections

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