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Jan Tichy's MATRIX project was three-fold, including two installations relating to both the city of Hartford and the landscapes in the Wadsworth Atheneum's signature Hudson River School collection, in addition to a new work that specifically addressed the museum's storied history.

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This catalogue features the Atheneum's extensive collection of works by the Hudson River School artists.

1905: Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt bequeathed over 1,000 objects to the museum, including paintings from the Husdon River School, decorative works, and the firearms collection of her late husband Samuel Colt, as well as funds for the construction of the Colt Memorial.

With particular strengths in colonial portraiture, the Hudson River School, American Impressionism, and the Ash Can School, also not to mention the important mural series The Arts of Life in America by Thomas Hart Benton, the Museum relies heavily on its permanent collection for exhibitions and programming, yet also displays a significant number of borrowed shows and works by emerging artists.

Through the Mint Museum's collection you can trace the evolution of this genre from the work of the Hudson River School painters such as Thomas Cole and Sanford Gifford, who focused on the natural beauty of our country's topography, through the rise of Impressionism: a movement whose artists celebrated a more abstract, subjective view of their surroundings.

One of the largest collections of paintings by artists of the Hudson River School is at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut.

Another focal point of the launch was the opening of Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies, featuring a selection of close to 40 works from Evans» legacy collection of African American art - from 19th - century landscape paintings of the Hudson River School to works by masters of the Harlem Renaissance, as well as examples from the Federal Art Project of the 1930s and later 20th - century works by Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden, among others.

In addition, the exhibition will feature nearly fifty works from Flavin's personal collection of drawings, including nineteenth - century American landscapes by Hudson River School artists, Japanese drawings, and twentieth - century works by artists such as Piet Mondrian, Donald Judd, and Sol LeWitt.

Among his collection were works on paper by Hokusai, Sol LeWitt, Piet Mondrian, George Grosz and Hudson River School artists like Jasper Francis Cropsey and John Frederick.

Wadsworth's private collection reflected his friendship with Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole.

When Wadsworth died in 1848, his personal collection came to the museum, forming the foundational core of Hudson River School landscape paintings enriched through later purchases and gifts by donors such as Elizabeth Colt, the widow of firearms magnate Samuel Colt.

The first drawing by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in the collection, Chronos Devouring his Child (Fig. 4), was purchased in 1934 from A. Everett «Chick» Austin, Jr., director of the Wadsworth Athenaeum at Hartford and a fellow Harvard graduate student with Professor of Art Agnes Rindge; Austin evidently bought the sheet from the Savile Gallery in London.21 The brown ink and wash drawing with traces of black chalk is a variation of a work in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and is related to a drawing in The Pierpont Morgan Library that is very close in concept to a portion of the ceiling of the Palazzo Clerici in Milan.22 Other gifts of drawings came in the 1930s, mostly contemporary American art, as well as nineteenth - century sketchbooks by Sanford Robinson Gifford, which complemented the four paintings by this Hudson River School painter that were already in the Magoon collection.

Forty - five magnificent paintings from the rich collection of the New - York Historical Society will be on view at the Columbia Museum of Art next fall, beginning November 17, 2011, in a major traveling exhibition Nature and the Grand American Vision: Masterpieces of the Hudson River School Painters.

«The New - York Historical Society houses one of the oldest and most comprehensive collections of landscape paintings by artists of the Hudson River School.

«The Hudson River School celebrates the landscapes around them in these spectacular works, creating a milestone American movement that we also sought to highlight in the Museum's own permanent collection.

Selected Public Collections Atlantic Credit & Finance Inc., Roanoke, VA Carilion Clinic, Roanoke, VA Garth Newel Music Center, Warm Springs, VA James River Coal Co., Richmond, VA E. D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA Hotel Roanoke Conference Center, Roanoke, VA Henry Hope Art Museum, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Keystone College, La Plume, PA Longwood College Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville, VA Roanoke College, Salem, VA State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's, Maryland Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA Virginia State Bar Association, Richmond, VA Virginia Western Community College, Roanoke, VA Washington & Lee University, Williams School of Economics, Lexington, VA

Olana, the home and artist - designed landscape of nineteenth - century Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church (1826 - 1900), loaned thirteen works from its collection for the exhibition Through American Eyes: Frederic Church and the Landscape Oil Sketch, which was on view at the National Gallery, London, from February 6 through April 28, 2013.

Peruse one of the best collections of Hudson River School of Art Paintings in America's First Public Art museum known for its cutting edge exhibitions, the Wadsworth Atheneum.

Finch's talk at the New School will focus on the artist's various public and large - scale installations like A Certain Slant of Light (2014 - 15), a site - specific installation at the Morgan Library inspired by its collection of medieval Books of Hours; Trying to Remember the Color of the Sky on That September Morning (2014), a commission for the National September 11 Memorialand Museum composed of 2,983 individual watercolors representing the artist's recollection of the sky on September 11, 2001; Painting Air (2012), an installation of more than 100 panels of suspended glass inspired by the colors of Claude Monet's garden at Giverny; and The River That Flows Both Ways (2009), a permanent installation on New York's High Line featuring an existing series of windows which Finch transformed with 700 individual panes of glass representing the water conditions on the Hudson River over 700 minutes in a single day.

Legacy for the Future: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art paid tribute to the diversity and forward - thinking vision of the museum's collection, with highlights that ranged from antiquities and Baroque masterworks to Hudson River School landscapes and contemporary sculpture.

«Legacy For the Future» will showcase a selection of objects that pay tribute to the diversity and forward - thinking vision of the museum collection, with highlights ranging from antiquities and baroque masterworks to Hudson River School landscapes and contemporary sculpture.

Spanning the formative century from 1830 to 1930, from the Hudson River School to Modernism, it is one of the most important collections of historic American art in private hands and will contribute significant depth to VMFA's collection from this period, said Susan J. Rawles, PhD, VMFA's associate curator of American painting and decorative art.

The largest collections of paintings by Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church and other painters of the Hudson River School can be found at several of the best art museums in America, including: the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut.

Highlights include the Morgan collection of Greek and Roman antiquities and European decorative arts; world - renowned Baroque and Surrealist paintings; an unsurpassed collection of Hudson River School landscapes; European and American Impressionist paintings; Modernist masterpieces; the Serge Lifar collecton of Ballets Russes drawings and costumes; the George A. Gay collection of prints; the Wallace Nutting collection of American colonial furniture and decorative arts; the Samuel Colt firearms collection; costumes and textiles; African American art and artifacts; and contemporary art.

The third show in a series on Hudson River School paintings from the collection argues that the idea of an American landscape filled with «sacred» sites is as much a cultural invention as it is an accident of nature.

One of the biggest collections of paintings by Cole and other members of the Hudson River School can be found at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, while others can be seen in many of the best art museums in America, including: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the New - York Historical Society, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, the Newark Museum NJ, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the National Gallery of Art Washington DC, Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington DC, the Albany Institute of History & Art, the Gilcrease Museum Tulsa, and the Westervelt Warner Museum of American Art Tuscaloosa.

The Hudson River School, one of the critical movements in nineteenth - century American landscape painting, is an important focus of the ACMAA collection.

On view, we find a collection of photographs, sculptures, assemblages, video installations, and paintings that reference artists ranging from Dorothea Lange and the Hudson River School to Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys.

«Imagine Brandywine,» a new exhibition space at the Brandywine River Museum for the display of creative art projects by area school students and inspired by the museum's collection and landscape, debuts on November 10.

Along with the plaza art, the historic Albany Institute of History & Art has a collection of works from the renowned Hudson River School of landscape painting and, from time to time, has fabulous exhibits.

January 2018 Inaugural Exhibition in Newark Museum's New Special Exhibition Gallery Explores Masterworks of Alpine Art The Rockies and the Alps: Bierstadt, Calame, and the Romance of the Mountains The Newark Museum will mark the opening of a new special exhibition gallery and its newly reopened Washington Street entrance with a major exhibition featuring beloved Hudson River School landscape paintings from the permanent collection and major loans from private and public collections.

Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford) The oldest public art museum in the United States, its collection of 50,000 objects contains major holdings of French and American Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School landscape paintings, modernist masterpieces and contemporary works, as well as extensive holdings in early American furniture and decorative arts.

In addition the exhibition features nearly fifty works from Flavin's personal collection of drawings, including nineteenth - century American landscapes by Hudson River School artists, Japanese drawings, and twentieth - century works by artists such as Piet Mondrian, Donald Judd, and Sol LeWitt.

In addition to the museum's celebrated Hudson River School paintings, collection highlights include 18th century portraits by Ralph Earl and John Singleton Copley, 19th century still lifes by the Peale family, late - 19th century trompe l'oeil paintings, and American modernism, with important paintings by Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Andrew Wyeth.