(Chicago, Illinois)— The Terra Foundation for American Art announces the addition of seven new members of the Board of Directors. The following individuals were elected for their extensive experience in American art scholarship, museum leadership, education, and finance. Each new member will serve an initial term of four years.

(Chicago, Illinois)— The Terra Foundation for American Art is pleased to announce that Peter John Brownlee has joined its Chicago staff as Associate Curator.

(Washington, D.C.)—The Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize recognizes excellent scholarship by a non-U.S. scholar in the field of historical American art (circa 1500—1980) and will be published in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's journal American Art.

(Chicago, Illinois)— The Terra Foundation for American Art announces the following recipients of Terra Foundation grants totaling $2,997,494:

The Terra Summer Residency in Giverny provides the opportunity to pursue individual study and research in a community of peers while being mentored by senior artists and scholars.

(Chicago, Illinois)— The Terra Foundation for American Art announces the 2009 recipients of the Terra Research and Travel Grants.

The Terra Foundation for American Art International Fellowships and Professorships seek to increase the opportunities in Europe for graduate study of historical American art while providing recipients the opportunity to pursue individual study and research.  All stipends include housing and travel allowances.

(Chicago, Illinois)— The Terra Foundation for American Art announces the following recipients of Terra Foundation grants totaling $1,481,650:

For the ninth consecutive year, the Terra Foundation for American Art is offering ten summer fellowships to artists and scholars from the United States and Europe. These fellowships are awarded to doctoral students engaged in research on American art and to artists who have completed their studies at masters level (or the equivalent).

The Terra Foundation for American Art mailing address has changed but all phone numbers and fax numbers remain the same.

(Chicago, Illinois)- The Terra Foundation for American Art announces the following recipients of Terra Foundation grants totaling $662,000.

(Chicago, Illinois)— The Terra Foundation for American Art announces the following recipients of Terra Foundation grants totaling $1,463,650:

"American Artists in Munich," a two-and-a-half day international colloquium, co-organized by the Terra Foundation for American Art, will focus on the attraction of the self-proclaimed "Kunststadt"/City of the Art(s)" for American artists between 1850 and World War I. The Akademie der Bildenden Künste München– a world renowned institution for higher artistic education, especially in the second half of the nineteenth century, and second only to Paris– will celebrate its bicentenary in 2008. Who came, when, and why? How did the Munich experience shape the later careers of visiting artists?

CHICAGO – The Terra Foundation for American Art, one of the world’s largest private grant-making organizations dedicated to historical (pre-1980) visual art of the United States, recently announced an unprecedented $3 million, multi-year initiative entitled American Art American City. The initiative is designed to enhance the understanding and enjoyment of historical American art throughout Chicago by encouraging residents and visitors to explore the diverse array of American art on display in museums, galleries and public spaces. The Terra Foundation for American Art is providing approximately $2.5 million in grants and programs, and an additional $500,000 in promotional support.

Art in America: Three Hundred Years of Innovation, the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of American art to travel to Russia will be on view at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts from July 24 to September 9, 2007. The presentation of this landmark exhibition, which premiered earlier this year in Beijing and Shanghai, is presented under the patronage of Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State of the United States of America and Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, in commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the start of diplomatic relations between Russia and the United States.

The Terra Foundation for American Art announces the following recipients of Terra Foundation grants totaling $801,750:

The Terra Foundation for American Art announces the following recipients of Terra Foundation grants totaling $1,181,600.

Fifteen years after the opening of the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny, Impressionist Giverny: A Colony of Artists, 1885-1915 examines the Giverny artists’ colony in a new light. Assembling more than 90 paintings, this exhibition goes beyond the important collection of American impressionism established by Daniel J. Terra. With loans from prestigious institutions in the United States and Europe, the exhibition demonstrates the international environment of the Giverny artists’ colony. Pictures by John Leslie Breck, Theodore Robinson and Frederick Carl Frieseke, for example, hang alongside those by European artists such as Claude Monet, Pierre Bonnard and Vaclav Radimsky.

For Immediate Release, January 24, 2007...For almost three decades, the Terra Foundation for American Art has fostered the understanding and enjoyment of American art in Chicago and internationally. In this report, 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.

A new online database, Lafayette, will allow for unrestricted access to information on 1700 works of American art in French public collections. The completion of this project was made possible due to the support of the Henry Luce Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, in partnership with the Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, has organized the first survey of American art to be presented in the People’s Republic of China. Art in America: Three Hundred Years of Innovation will feature approximately 130 important works of American art spanning the Colonial period to the present age, focusing on painting drawn from major U.S. and European collections, including the Terra Foundation and Guggenheim Foundation. The exhibition will premiere in Beijing at the National Art Museum of China, from February 10 through April 5, 2007, and will travel to Shanghai where it will be co-presented by the Shanghai Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, from May 1 to June 30, 2007.

The Terra Foundation for American Art announces the following recipients of Terra Foundation grants totaling $3,354,110...

The Musée du Louvre and the Terra Foundation for American Art are collaborating on an exhibition that will explore the roots of Franco-American artistic exchange and the Louvre as a site for artistic inspiration for generations of American artists. American Artists and the Louvre is the first exhibition of American art to be shown at the Louvre and will be on view from June 14 to September 18, 2006.

The Terra Foundation for American Art proudly announces the acquisition of John Marin's 1934 oil painting Sailboat, Brooklyn Bridge, New York Skyline. American art scholar and Marin expert Ruth Fine has extolled the work as a fine example of Marin's oeuvre in her definitive National Gallery of Art catalogue: "Marin compressed all of his favored motifs into individual enclosures, painted with splashy delight, and then surrounded them with one of his hand-painted frames."

The Terra Foundation awards a $3.6 million grant to enable the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art to increase access to its collection worldwide. The five-year digitalization project will make 1.6 million documents available to the public free of charge on the Web from the leading research resource in American art.

The Terra Foundation announces two new exhibition initiatives: a long-term loan from its collection to the Art Institute of Chicago and a collaboration with the Musée du Louvre for a 2006 exhibition of American art in Paris.

The Terra Foundation and the Musée du Louvre in Paris are collaborating on the first exhibition of American art at the Louvre, which highlights the American Summer at the Louvre in 2006.