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

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.

Program Overview

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.

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

Image of artworks on a wall. — 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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Terra Collection-in-Residence: Ackland Art Museum

A group of people looking at two prints set upon small easels atop a long table. — 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.

Partner Stories

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Terra Collection-in-Residence: Ashmolean Museum

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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Terra Collection-in-Residence: Colby College Museum of Art

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.

Partner Stories

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Terra Collection-in-Residence: Harvard Art Museums

A group of people look at paintings in a gallery. Four people are seated and one person stands. — 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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Terra Collection-in-Residence: Georgia Museum of Art

An art gallery red wall with three different art pieces in a row, featuring two larger objects and a smaller object in between them. — 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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Terra Collection-in-Residence: Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig

A person standing in an art gallery in front of a wall of many different artworks, pointing specifically at one. — 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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Terra Collection-in-Residence: Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo

Installation photograph of an exhibition. Two paintings hang on a blue wall on the left side of the image, and three artworks hang on a white wall on the right side of the image. — 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

Partner Stories

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Terra Collection-in-Residence: Tougaloo College

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

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Twelve small paintings, hanging in two rows of six, on a maroon wall. — John Leslie Breck: American Impressionist, Mint Museum Uptown, September 18, 2021–January 2, 2022. Image courtesy of The Mint Museum.

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Collection Loans

Book cover with the title "Conversations with the Collection: A Terra Foundation Collection Handbook" on top of a detail of a blue and brown painting by Arthur Dove. — Conversations with the Collection: A Terra Foundation Collection Handbook

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Stories and News

An image of a girl in red dress. A dog is laying on the ground at her feet. — 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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Terra Collection-in-Residence: Ackland Art Museum’s Triple Take

An image of a painting of a person on a farm with a cow. — Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Boy with Cow, 1921. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Endowment Fund, 2017.1

Partner Stories

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In the Galleries: Interpretations of Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s Boy with Cow

In the News

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Mirrors, minors, and Modernism in dialogue at the new Ackland exhibit