For almost three decades, the Terra Foundation for American Art has fostered the understanding and enjoyment of American art in Chicago and internationally. The foundation’s current annual report is now available online and we are proud to share with you the variety and scope of the foundation’s activities since 2003, which include several historic initiatives and the significant enlargement of the grant program.

We are pleased to note that through the foundation’s current initiatives and grant-making, American art will be seen and discussed around the world, including in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Mexico, Peru, and China. In 2007, the exhibition Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation, organized in partnership with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, will open in Beijing and Shanghai respectively.

You can access information about our grant program, including guidelines and the application process, on this website. Additionally, a comprehensive list of grants awarded by the foundation, along with their scale and scope, is available. During your visit, we invite you to explore our collection of American art and to learn about the exciting program of events for the 2007 season at the foundation’s museum in France, the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny. This year two special shows will add to the season: opening on April 1st, Impressionist Giverny: A Colony of Artists, 1885–1915 focuses on the international colony of artists in Giverny during that thirty year period; opening July 15th, an exhibition of Western photography, drawn from French public collections, highlights 19th century expeditions. In addition, a third exhibition of works from the Terra Foundation collection, At Leisure, will be on view.

Our public face may have changed since our 2001—2003 report, but from our base in Chicago, the Terra Foundation for American Art has always been, and remains, committed to communicating the richness of historic American art to an ever-widening audience.