American Art

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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Anonymous Artist John Freake, about 1671-74	Anonymous Artist Mrs. Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary, about 1671-74	Thomas Smith Self-Portrait, about 1680

John Singleton Copley John Bours, about 1765-70	High Chest of Drawers, 1760-80	Paul Revere II Paine Service, 1773

Benjamin West Pharaoh and His Host Lost in the Red Sea, 1792	Charles Willson Peale Charles Pettit, 1792	Edward Savage Liberty in the Form of the Goddess of Youth: Giving Support to the Bald Eagle, 1796

Ralph Earl Looking East from Denny Hill, 1800	Anna Sanders Sampler, 1801	Gilbert Stuart Mrs. Perez Morton, about 1802

Charles-Balthazar- Julien Févret De Saint-Mémin Thomas Jefferson, 1804	John Vanderlyn Sampson Vryling Stoddard Wilder, about 1808-12	James Peale Still Life, 1825

Rembrandt Peale George Washington, 1827	Samuel F. B. Morse The Chapel of the Virgin at Subiaco, 1830	Edward Hicks The Peaceable Kingdom, about 1833

Thomas Cole View on the Arno, near Florence, 1837	Eliza Goodridge Stephen Salisbury III, 1838	Thomas Crawford Boy Playing Marbles, 1853

Salisbury House, Worcester, Massachusetts, about 1857	James Abbott McNeill Whistler Sketch for Rose and Silver: La Princesse du Pays de la Porcelaine, 1863-64	Matthew B. Brady General Robert E. Lee and Staff, 1865

Albert Bierstadt Yosemite Falls, about 1865-70	George Inness The Alban Hills, 1873	Winslow Homer Boys and Kitten, 1873

Winslow Homer The Gale, 1883-93	John Singer Sargent Venetian Water Carriers, 1880-82	John Singer Sargent Muddy Alligators, 1917

Thomas Eakins Study of the Head of Samuel David Gross, 1875	Eadweard Muybridge Jumping a hurdle; saddle; bay horse Daisy Plate 640 of Animal Locomotion, 1887	Mary Cassatt Reine Lefebvre Holding a Nude Baby, 1902

John La Farge Peacock Window, 1892-1908	Maurice Brazil Prendergast Low Tide, Beachmont, about 1902-4	Frank Benson Portrait of My Daughters, 1907

Alfred Stieglitz The Steerage, 1907	Arthur B. Davies Sleep Lies Perfect in Them, 1908	Childe Hassam The Breakfast Room, Winter Morning, 1911

Charles Sheeler Zinnia and Nasturtium Leaves, 1915	Charles Sheeler City Interior, 1936	George Bellows The White Horse, 1922

Edward Weston In a Glendale Studio, 1923

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