We collaborate with partners to identify objects for loan that amplify an institution’s permanent collection and invite new contexts, voices, and practices. The program helps museums expand the stories they can tell with their permanent collections and provides opportunities for interdisciplinary research and teaching with American art.
Collection
Terra Collection-in-Residence
Through the initiative Terra Collection-in-Residence, artworks are loaned for extended periods to invited academic museums in the United States and international museums with strong connections to universities.
Images
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.
Program Overview
Contact Us
Currently, we proactively initiate projects through invitation. If you are interested in learning more, please contact Katherine Bourguignon, Senior Curator and Collection Program Officer, at [email protected].
Terra Collection-in-Residence Partners
The Terra Foundation's painting Sylvester (1914) by Robert Henri, installed alongside objects from the permanent collection of the Ackland Art Museum. Photo courtesy Ackland Art Museum
Partner Stories
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Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology, Oxford, UK, workshop with the University’s Translator-in-Residence Polly Barton, Curator of Japanese Art Clare Pollard, and Teaching Curator Jim Harris, who brought images by Mary Cassatt, Bertha Lum, and Arthur Dow into dialogue with nineteenth-century Japanese prints, 2023.
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Installation view of Some American Stories, including Yasuo Kuniyoshi's Boy with Cow (1921) and George Caleb Bingham's The Jolly Flatboatmen (1877-78) at Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine (September 26, 2024–ongoing). Photo: Luc Demers
Partner Stories
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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.
Partner Stories
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A group of people gathered in front of Portrait of a Lady in a Blue Dress (1763) by John Singleton Copley installed alongside objects from the permanent collection of the Georgia Museum of Art. Courtesy Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia
Partner Stories
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William Merritt Chase's Morning at Breakwater, Shinnecock (c. 1897), installed alongside objects from the collection of the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig. Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig / Photo: PUNCTUM / Alexander Schmidt
Partner Stories
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Works on paper from the Terra Foundation Art Collection installed at the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo. Photo by Evandro Carlos Nicolau
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Installation of the exhibition FREEDOM: Abstract Expressionism, Tougaloo College and the Civil Rights Movement including, left to right, Albert Eugene Gallatin's Room Space (1937-38) and Arshile Gorky's Mannikin (1931). Photo by Mark Geil
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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.
Collection
Conversations with the Collection: A Terra Foundation Collection Handbook
Stories and News
Ammi Phillips Girl in a Red Dress, c. 1835. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1992.57
Partner Stories
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Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Boy with Cow, 1921. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Endowment Fund, 2017.1
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In the News
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