ArtNav is an interactive platform for the interpretation and exploration of works of art. Layering media and text over object images, ArtNav highlights key features of works of art in the Terra Foundation Art Collection and provides deeper context for them.

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A woman sits in a chair by a window reading a book.

Milton Avery, Adolescence, 1947. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1992.3 © 2018 The Milton Avery Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Painting of the Hudson River in wintertime from the west side of Manhattan Island in New York City. It is framed by tall trees, the scene looks west across the river toward the cliffs known as the Palisades, in New Jersey. White, patchy snow is echoed by the powerful plume of steam billowing from the funnel of a southbound locomotive.

George Bellows, The Palisades, 1909. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.10

A painting of a group of men on top of a flat boat sailing down a river. Two men play instruments while one man dances and four other men watch.

George Caleb Bingham, The Jolly Flatboatmen, 1877–78. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1992.15

An abstracted painting of a boat at sea.

Arthur Dove, Boat Going through Inlet, c. 1929. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Endowment Fund, image courtesy: The Estate of Arthur G. Dove/Terry Dintenfass, Inc., 2015.6

Painting of a Black man sitting on a street curb surrounding by white woman passing.

Philip Evergood, Passing Show, 1951. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1992.34

A woman dressed in black sits on a blue couch. Behind her is a view of a harbor scene.

Erastus Salisbury Field, Portrait of a Woman said to be Clarissa Gallond Cook, in Front of a Cityscape, c. 1838. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Endowment Fund, 2000.4

A city street in Boston.

Childe Hassam, Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, c. 1892. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1992.39

A painting of a young boy surrounded by animals in a forest setting. In the distance is a group of people.

Edward Hicks, A Peaceable Kingdom with Quakers Bearing Banners, c. 1829–1830. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1993.7

Painting of the Salon Carré in the Louvre art museum in Paris hung with masterpieces of European art primarily from the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

Samuel F. B. Morse, Gallery of the Louvre, 1831–33. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1992.51

Painting of letters, newspapers, notebook, a feather, stamp, and other memorabilia held to a brown bulletin board by pinned, thin red tape.

John Frederick Peto, Old Time Letter Rack, 1894. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Endowment Fund, 2015.5

A narrow painting of purple and green leaves.

Helen Torr, Purple and Green Leaves, 1927. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.142

Collection Resources

A photograph of a row of metal racks on wheels. One rack is pulled out from the row so its contents are visible: several framed paintings hang on the rack as if it were a wall.

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

A group of people surrounding and viewing a table with multiple art objects on it.

Graduate workshop with Polly Vernon, the Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities Visiting Fellow in Translation 2022-23, focusing on two Terra Foundation Collection woodcuts: Arthur Wesley Dow's Moonrise (c. 1898-1905) and Bertha Lum's Frost (1919). / © Jim Harris

Three people reading and sitting at a long white table. A book shelf filled with books runs the length of the wall behind them.

The Terra Foundation Library for American Art is a non-circulating research library located in Paris, France, and open to the public.