Wender·Vista
Currier Museum of Art Manchester
shown on ceramic, 12-inch tileNew Hampshire
in Manchester, north of the Merrimack

Currier Museum of Art Manchester

— — a quiet room full of light.

— Where it lives

Not only on a wall.

A small tile on the nightstand catching the morning. A larger one above the fire. Yours, wherever you spend the slow hours.
— On the nightstand, a 6-inch on a walnut stand
— Among the books, a 6-inch leaning into the spines
— Beside the kettle, a 12-inch propped
— Down a quiet hall, an 18-inch floating off the wall
— Above the fire, the 24-inch in a walnut surround
— a note from the studio

“An art museum on Ash Street, a few blocks from the Merrimack. The collection runs from Monet to O'Keeffe, and the museum owns a Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian house a short shuttle away. New Hampshire's largest art collection, kept at the pace of a city that doesn't rush you.

from the studio
Currier Museum of Art Manchester
— bring it home

Currier Museum of Art Manchester, on ceramic.

Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.

What kind of piece?
One tile — square or rectangle.
How big?
the popular one — counter, shelf, nightstand
6 × 6 in · 15 cm · 1.6 lb
Surface finish
A clear glossy finish — the artwork reads as if under resin. Ideal for show-pieces and framed wall art.
How it sits
A hidden cleat — sits ¼″ proud of the wall.
$58
Hand-finished and shipped from our studio at the foot of the Smokies. On your wall in about ten days.
— size
6 × 6 in
15 cm
— weighs
1.6 lb
solid in the hand
— surface
ceramic, hand-finished
art rests beneath a thin glossy finish
— from
Knoxville, TN
our family studio, at the foot of the Smokies
— start a Coaster Set

Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.

— about Currier Museum of Art Manchester

The place, in three passes.

A little of what's known, in case you fall down the rabbit hole — or want to go see it yourself.
— the place

The Currier opened in 1929 on Ash Street in Manchester, founded under the will of former New Hampshire governor Moody Currier. It holds roughly 13,000 works, including pieces by Monet, Picasso, O'Keeffe, and Hopper, and is the only art museum to own a Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian house: the Zimmerman House on Heather Street, completed in 1950 and reached by museum shuttle. The 1982 and 2008 additions doubled the gallery space. Manchester sits along the Merrimack River about 50 miles north of Boston.

— the light

The galleries are daylit through clerestory windows that the 2008 Ann Beha addition raised above the older 1929 hall. The light reads cool in winter and gold by late afternoon, which is part of why the Currier shows so many Hudson River School and American Impressionist canvases well. The Winter Garden atrium at the centre of the building catches the south sun and is where most visitors stop for coffee before the second pass through the European wing.

— the visit

Open Wednesday through Monday, closed Tuesday. General admission is around $20 for adults; New Hampshire residents enter free on the second Saturday of each month. The Zimmerman House tour is a separate ticketed program with limited daily seats and requires advance booking. Free parking is on Ash Street and Beech Street. Allow two hours for the main galleries and another ninety minutes if the Zimmerman shuttle is on your list.

— informed by Visit the Currier
— where
United States · Manchester, New Hampshire
— position
42.9943° N · 71.4624° W
— the neighborhood

What's nearby.

A handful of named places within an hour's walk or short drive. Some we've already painted; some we will.
3 km NE
Zimmerman House
Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian house
1 km S
Palace Theatre
1914 vaudeville theatre
1 km SW
Amoskeag Millyard
historic textile mill district
1 km S
SNHU Arena
downtown arena
N
Currier Museum of Art Manchester
Zimmerman House
Palace Theatre
Amoskeag Millyard
SNHU Arena
— common questions

What people ask.

A few questions we get about Currier Museum of Art Manchester — and about bringing the piece home.
— about the place

Its 13,000-piece collection of European and American art, and being the only art museum that owns a Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian house, the Zimmerman House in Manchester.

Yes, by guided tour only, with limited daily seats. The 1950 Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian sits on Heather Street and is reached by a short museum shuttle from Ash Street.

The museum opened in 1929, founded under the will of former New Hampshire governor Moody Currier and his wife Hannah, in a Beaux-Arts building on Ash Street in Manchester.

Holdings include Monet, Picasso, Matisse, O'Keeffe, Hopper, and Wyeth, alongside a strong run of Hudson River School and American Impressionist paintings and contemporary New England artists.

It holds about 13,000 works across roughly 80,000 square feet after the 2008 Ann Beha expansion doubled the gallery footprint of the original 1929 Beaux-Arts building.

On Ash Street in downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, a few blocks east of the Merrimack River and about 50 miles north of Boston by car.

— about the piece in your home

It's been a meaningful gift for our customers with ties to Manchester. The Currier is the city's quiet anchor. A Small or Medium with a handwritten note from the studio carries well.

The piece reads at home in Mid-century Modern, New England Traditional, and Quiet Maximalist rooms. The blues and warm umbers carry against white plaster, oak panelling, or a deep navy wall.

Yes. The Voynich palette gives Quiet Maximalist rooms a single anchored object that earns the eye without competing with layered textiles, framed prints, and warm wood furniture around it.

A single Large holds a standard console. Above a sofa, a four-tile Mural reads at scale; a nine-tile Mural anchors a long wall in a study or stairwell.

Yes, ordered in Dura Satin or Matte. Both finishes resist scratching and humidity and clean with a soft cloth and plain water.

A microfibre cloth and water. Skip household sprays. The colour lives in the ceramic surface beneath a thin glossy finish and will not lift or fade.

Yes. Reid Wender curates the WenderVista atlas from a single studio in Knoxville, Tennessee. The work is not licensed from other artists and is hand-finished in-house.

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