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Show American Art ru ng from the eighteenth through the twentieth centunes, the compre- sive nature of the Museums Amencan objects collect10n enables visitors learn the history of Amencan artistic developrn.ent. Previously scholarship and teach111g on Amencan art centered on the notion that artists 111 this country did not have the benefit of the long cultural tradit10n claimed by European artists, and were therefore compelled to seek 111sp1Iation 111 a vast, yet untamed and god-created nature. Recently this viewpo111t has evolved to the current and more inclusive emphasis on 111tercultural and 111terd1scipl111ary connections. Arn.ong the highlights of this notable collection are the eighteenth century pamtmgs by BenJarnm West (Portrait efMrs Benjamin West and Her Son, Raphael, ca. 1770) John S111gleton Copley (Portrait ifjohn, Second Viscount Dudley and Ward, ca. 1778-1781) and Gilbert Stuart (Mr Simon Walker ca. 1802) that are evidence LEFT ABOVE ABOVE Joseph Barry (1760-1838), Amcncan Sideboard in the Neoclassical Taste, Philadelphia , ca. 1813-18 Mahogany, with gilt brass hon-head pulls and hon-paw feet 51 1/4 X 95 3/4 111. UTA H MUSE U 1\/ 0 F FI ,\"/.:. A RT S Thomas Cole (1801 1848) , Arn.en can Pastoral Landscape with Fishermen, ca. 1826 Oil on panel, 19 1/4 x 24 1/2 111. Purchased w1th funds from the Marnner S. Eccles Foundation for the Marriner S. Eccles Collection of Masterworks Museum # 1986.016 James Peale (1749-1831 American The Ambush ef Captain Allan McLane, 1803 Oil on canvas 28 X 36 1/4 111. Purchased with funds from the George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, the Marr111er S. Eccles Foundat10n, and Fnends of the Art Museum Museum # 1987.056.001 Benjarnin West (1738-1820) American Portrait ef Mrs. Benjamin West and Her Son, Raphael, ca. 1770 Oil on canvas 35 3/4 m. diameter Purchased with funds from the Marrmer S. Eccles Foundation to the Marnner S. Eccles Collection of Masterworks Museum# 1982.007.003 32 ABOVE Purchased w ith funds from the Marnner S. Eccles Foundation for the Marr111er S. Eccles Collection of Masterworks Museum # 1993.026.001 ABOVE T heodore E. Pine (1828-1905) Amencan Doane Family Portrait, 1871 Oil on canvas 81 1/8 X 83 3/4 111. Gift of Edward Barlett Wicks Museum# 1980.041 |
