Begun by Daniel J. Terra in the 1970s and growing to this day, the Terra Foundation's collection of American art spans the colonial era through 1945 and includes more than seven hundred paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, and sculptures. The collection features work by such artists as George Bellows, Mary Cassatt, John Singleton Copley, Stuart Davis, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, Maurice Prendergast (whose sixty monotypes in the collection compose the largest institutional holding of his work in this medium), and James McNeill Whistler, as well as the early American masterpiece by Samuel F. B. Morse, Gallery of the Louvre, 1831–33.

This online presentation of the foundation's collection is designed for the art enthusiast and scholar alike, and makes available information about the collection that has been gathered to date. Research of the collection is ongoing, and information is added and updated regularly to reflect new findings.

There is no substitution for seeing original works of art in person! We encourage you to experience works of art in the foundation's collection at these national and international venues.


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