The Lyman Allyn Art Museum recently launched its first online art gallery, which will enable the museum to share portions of its collection when the museum’s physical galleries are full. The first exhibition in the online gallery showcases recent acquisitions to the permanent collection.

In late 2015 and early 2016, the Lyman Allyn received four gifts, including 114 modern and contemporary objects from Anthony and Elizabeth Enders. The Enders collection includes works by Matthew Barney, Nan Goldin, David Hockney, Sol LeWitt, Chris Ofili, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Lorna Simpson and Darren Waterston, among others.

Karen Metzger Ganz has donated a portfolio of contemporary photographs to the Lyman Allyn every year for more than a decade. The 2015 gift is a portfolio of 100 black-and-white photographs of Brazil by Kristin Capp.

Sheldron Seplowitz donated five Salvador Dalí lithographs to the museum in December. Two religious pieces comprise Dalí’s New Jerusalem suite, while three lithographs illustrate segments of the history of Don Quixote.

Acclaimed conservators and technical art historians Lance Mayer and Gay Myers retired from their practice based at the Lyman Allyn Museum at the end of 2015. To mark the occasion, the couple gave the museum objects of regional importance, including two Chippendale side chairs attributed to the Norwich maker Felix Huntington and a Windsor side chair by New London furniture maker William Harris Jr.

View pieces from the recent acquisitions at www.lymanallyn.org/exhibitions/selected-highlights.