The museum is home to one of the largest and most inclusive collections of American art in the world, including works by such stylistically diverse luminaries as John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, ...

The Inventory of American Paintings began in the early 1970s, and has collected data on over 350,000 paintings created by American artists active by 1914. The Inventory of American Sculpture began ...

“In contradiction of a belief, still fairly current, that any creditable assemblage of early American art is impossible, this exhibition is presented. . . .” Thus, at the opening of the new ...

Early American artists and political thinkers wrestled with the challenges of forming a cohesive, if not coherent, culture and political structure to organize the young republic and its diverse ...