NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.- The New Britain Museum of American Art presents "Love Story", on view through March 31, 2002. The New Britain Museum of American Art focuses on all things romantic just in time for Love Story, an exhibition that opened on Valentine's Day. Love Story includes some 60 original works of art that were used to illustrate romantic fiction over the past 100 years, including drawings, watercolors and oil paintings. Many works accompanied love stories in early issues of magazines such as Saturday Evening Post, McCall's, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Monthly, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Woman's Home Companion and Ladies Home Journal, which published original fiction in each issue. Represented in the exhibition are such well-known artists as James Montgomery Flagg, Dean Cornwell, Henry Raleigh, Coby Whitmore, Alex Ross, F.R. Gruger and Alice Barber Stephens. Love Story will also be enhanced by a number of old magazines on loan to the Museum for the exhibition by the Forbes Library in Northampton, Mass., known for its unusually large collection of vintage periodicals.