Worcester Art Museum (original) (raw)
Worcester Art Museum
Worcester, MA
508-799-4406
Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:
American Impressionism: Paintings of Promise; essay by David R. Brigham (5/16/02)
Paul Revere: Artisan and Patriot (4/3/00)
Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era (4/3/00)
Robert Capa: Photographs (4/2/00)
Fine and Folk Traditions in American Miniature Painting (3/4/99)
"All that is Glorious Around Us": Paintings from the Hudson River School (2/22/99)
Worcester Art Museum Celebrates Centennial with Major American Impressionism Show (1998)
Opened to the public in 1898, the Worcester Art Museum is located at 55 Salisbury Street and is the second largest art museum in New England. Its exceptional 35,000-piece collection of paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, photography, prints, and drawings is displayed in 36 galleries and spans 5,000 years of art and culture, ranging from Egyptian antiquities and Roman mosaics to Impressionist paintings and contemporary art.
Throughout its first century, the Worcester Art Museum proved itself a pioneer: the first American museum to purchase work by Claude Monet (1910) and Paul Gauguin (1921); the first museum to bring a medieval building to America (1927); a sponsor of the first major excavation at Antioch, one of the four great cities of ancient Rome (1932); the first museum to create an Art All-State program for high school artists (1987); and the first museum to exhibit Dutch master Judith Leyster (1993).
Please see the Museum's website for hours and admission fees.
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