Richard Welling Collection

Richard Welling (1926-2009) is best known for his prints and drawings of Hartford, especially for those documenting demolition and construction from the 1960s through the 1980s. The Richard Welling Collection at the Connecticut Historical Society is especially rich in such works, but also includes substantial numbers of prints, drawings, and photographs of other towns in Connecticut, as well as elsewhere in New England and the United States, and ephemera, manuscripts, and artifacts relating to artist, such as his drawing implements and the hard hat he wore when drawing at construction sites. Consisting of over 5000 items, the contents of the artist’s studio at the time of his death, the collection was given to the Connecticut Historical Society by the family of Richard Welling in 2011-2014.