The collections at the Worcester Art Museum span the history of American art from 1670 to the end of the twentieth century, with special strengths in colonial painting and American Impressionism. By virtue of the Museum's location in central New England and the scholarly interests of the first curators of the collection, Worcester's early American paintings include many renowned works. The Museum's holdings of American Impressionism were built largely by purchases made from the annual exhibitions of contemporary American painting held in the first two decades of the century. The Museum is also recognized for its collections of American watercolors and watercolor miniatures on ivory.
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View our special timeline of Early American Painting |
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Anonymous Artist |
Anonymous Artist |
Thomas Smith |
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John Singleton Copley |
High Chest of Drawers, 1760-80 |
Paul Revere II |
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Benjamin West |
Charles Willson Peale |
Edward Savage |
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Ralph Earl |
Anna Sanders |
Gilbert Stuart |
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Charles-Balthazar- Julien Févret De Saint-Mémin |
John Vanderlyn |
James Peale |
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Rembrandt Peale |
Samuel F. B. Morse |
Edward Hicks |
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Thomas Cole |
Eliza Goodridge |
Thomas Crawford |
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Salisbury House, Worcester, Massachusetts, about 1857 |
James Abbott McNeill Whistler |
Matthew B. Brady |
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Albert Bierstadt |
George Inness |
Winslow Homer |
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Winslow Homer |
John Singer Sargent |
John Singer Sargent |
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Thomas Eakins |
Eadweard Muybridge |
Mary Cassatt |
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John La Farge |
Maurice Brazil Prendergast |
Frank Benson |
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Alfred Stieglitz |
Arthur B. Davies |
Childe Hassam |
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Charles Sheeler |
Charles Sheeler |
George Bellows |
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Edward Weston |