The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art and the Chicago-based Terra Foundation for American Art announced a long-term partnership to support the digitization of the Archives’ collections.  The Terra Foundation has made a $4.5 million commitment to the Archives, $4 million of which is a challenge grant to be matched by the Smithsonian, to seed an […]

Perth, Australia—The new Terra Collection Initiative Continental Shift, an exploration of historical landscape paintings at the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA), highlights the cross-pollination of ideas and influences between the United States and Australia. Re-examining and reconsidering connections and themes found in artistic works from different continents, the exhibition is the result of a partnership between […]

Chicago, IL—The Terra Foundation for American Art announced today its international academic award and fellowship recipients for 2016, including Grazina Subelyte, a PhD candidate at the Courtauld Institute of Art, in London, who received a travel grant to conduct research in the US for her dissertation on the Swiss-American artist and scholar Kurt Seligmann. (View […]

Chicago, IL—The Terra Foundation for American Art announced today William Merritt Chase: A Modern Master, the first retrospective of the artist’s work in more than three decades and the first to travel internationally. Co-organized by The Phillips Collection; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Fondazione Musei Civici Venezia; and the Terra Foundation, the exhibition opens […]

New York, NY—The College Art Association (CAA) and Terra Foundation for American Art invite applications for the 2017 Terra Foundation for American Art International Publication Grant. The grant provides financial support for the publication of book-length scholarly manuscripts on the history of American art from circa 1500 to 1980 in the current-day geographic United States. […]

Chicago, IL—The Terra Foundation for American Art announced today the release of Picturing, the first volume of the Terra Foundation Essays series, which explores fundamental ideas and concepts shaping American art and visual culture over the last three centuries.

Chicago, IL—The Terra Foundation for American Art, in partnership with Yale University Press, is pleased to announce the inaugural winner of the American Art in Translation Book Prize: Hélène Valance, for her volume Nuits américaines: l’art du nocturne aux États-Unis 1809–1917. In addition to a $5,000 cash prize, Ms. Valance will have her book translated […]

Oxford, United Kingdom—Professor David M. Lubin has been appointed as the first Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford. Professor Lubin will hold the position during the 2016–17 academic year. The key objectives of the visiting professorship will be to establish American art from the colonial period onward as a […]

Chicago, IL—The Terra Foundation for American Art announced today that more than $8.4 million was awarded in fiscal year 2015 (July 1, 2014–June 30, 2015) for nearly 70 initiatives and partnerships worldwide, including: A new visiting professorship at the University of Oxford; An international essay prize; The symposium “Wordstruck: American Artists as Readers, Writers, and […]

Chicago, IL—The Terra Foundation for American Art announced today the recent acquisition of five major paintings: Romare Bearden, After Church, 1941; Arthur Dove, Boat Going through Inlet; c. 1929; John Haberle, One Dollar Bill, 1890; John Frederick Peto, Old Time Letter Rack, 1894; and William Merritt Chase, Untitled (Harbor Scene), c. 1888 (gift of Jamee and […]