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The Smart Museum of Art’s two Academic Engagement Graduate Assistants examine Romare Bearden's work After Church (1941) during a viewing of Terra Foundation Collection objects for Smart Museum staff members in the Education Study Room. Photo courtesy of Cooper Long.

An image of a bird sitting on a tree with pink flowers.

Kerry James Marshall, Black and Part Black Birds in America: (Pigeon and Black Capped Chickadee no 2), 2021. Acrylic on PVC panel in artist's frame, 30 x 24 1/2 x 2 3/4 in. (76.2 x 62.2 x 7 cm), Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Fund, 2025.1

Erin Harmon, Post-Historic Landscape, 2013. Gouache, watercolor, flocking on paper; hand-cut and collaged, 22 × 30 in. (55.9 × 76.2 cm). Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Gift of the artist, 2013.17. © Erin Harmon

Norman Rockwell (American, 1894–1978), The Problem We All Live With, 1963. Oil on canvas, 36 x 58 in. (91 x 150 cm). Illustration for Look, January 14, 1964, 22–23. Norman Rockwell Museum Collection, NRM.1975.01

A multi-colored image with different patterns.

Marsden Hartley (American, 1877–1943), Painting No. 50, Berlin, 1914–15. Oil on canvas, 47 × 47 in. (119.4 × 119.4 cm). Terra Foundation for American Art. Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.61 .

A image of figures working.

José Clemente Orozco, Science, Labor, and Art panel from Call to Revolution and Table of Universal Brotherhood, The New School Mural Cycle, 1930–31, The New School Art Collection. Photo credit: Tom Moore

Jim Denomie (Lac Courte Oreilles band of Ojibwe), "Totem, Animal Spirits (installation view), 2021. Wood, oil paint, deer antlers, horse hair, found objects, 78 × 32 × 32 in. Forge Project Collection, traditional lands of the Moh-He-Con-Nuck. Copyright Estate of the artist and Bockley Gallery. Photo by Holly Trevan.

A group of people in an art gallery with a person in a blue shirt leading a discussion.

Gallery Talk led by Dr. Kimia Shahi, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California and 2022-23 Fellow at the Center for the Environment, Harvard University, at the Harvard Art Museums featuring Samuel Coleman's Ships Unloading, New York (1868), on loan from the Terra Foundation for American Art. May 3, 2023. Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums; © President and Fellows of Harvard College.

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