In partnership with invited institutions, the foundation identifies and co-acquires works of art that then enter both collections, their ownership and stewardship shared by both organizations. In most instances, the works are located with the partnering institution unless on loan to another institution. The program encourages transformative modes of practice within both our own organization and the field. We welcome loan requests for shared acquisitions and other works in the Terra Collection. The shared acquisition program is by invitation only.
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Shared Acquisitions
The Terra Foundation co-acquires collection objects with museums that contribute to broader understandings of American art. This type of collection acquisition embraces new ownership models in which works can be co-acquired to increase the visibility of these objects in a shared, publicly accessible collection of American art.
Shared Acquisitions
Calida Rawles, Thy Name We Praise, 2023. Terra Foundation for American Art and Spelman College Museum of Fine Art co-acquisition in honor of Mary Schmidt Campbell, Ph.D., 10th President of Spelman College, TCA2023.3. Photo courtesy of Lehmann Maupin Gallery.
Augusta Savage, Gamin, ca. 1930. Terra Foundation for American Art and Spelman College Museum of Fine Art co-acquisition in honor of Mary Schmidt Campbell, Ph.D., 10th President of Spelman College, TCA2023.2. Photo courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
Augusta Savage, Portrait of a Baby, 1942. Terra Foundation for American Art and Spelman College Museum of Fine Art co-acquisition in honor of Mary Schmidt Campbell, Ph.D., 10th President of Spelman College, TCA2023.1. Photo courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
Rose B. Simpson, Remind, 2022. Purchased jointly by the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC and the Terra Foundation for American Art, TCA2025.1
Program Overview
Shared Acquisitions
The Terra Foundation partnered with the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art to co-acquire three works in honor of Mary Schmidt Campbell, PhD, the tenth president of Spelman College. These works are the first objects by Augusta Savage and Calida Rawles to enter both collections.
- Calida Rawles (American, b. 1976), Thy Name We Praise, 2023
- Augusta Savage (American, 1892-1962), Gamin, c. 1930
- Augusta Savage (American, 1892-1962), Portrait of a Baby, 1942
The Terra Foundation has also partnered with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian to acquire Rose B. Simpson’s sculpture Remind (2022).
Collection Resources
Image credits and captions, clockwise, left to right: Lyonel Feininger, Denstedt, 1917 © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn; Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Boy with Cow, 1921 © 2020 Estate of Yasuo Kuniyoshi / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY; Helen Torr, Purple and Green Leaves, 1927; Arthur Dove, Boats Going through Inlet, c. 1929, courtesy: The Estate of Arthur G. Dove/ Terry Dintenfass, Inc.; Joseph Stella, Telegraph Poles with Buildings, 1917. All works pictured are in the Terra Foundation Collection, photo by Michael Tropea
John Leslie Breck: American Impressionist, Mint Museum Uptown, September 18, 2021–January 2, 2022. Image courtesy of The Mint Museum.
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