Events & Exhibitions

Terra Foundation-supported Events

Collection on View: Gallery Installation

Since April 2005, the Terra Foundation of American Art has loaned works for display to the Department of American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC). Works from the collection of the Terra Foundation and works from the Art Institute of Chicago are located together in a suite of galleries, together providing one of the nation’s most comprehensive presentations of American art.

This installation is ongoing, January 2019 to December 2019.

For more information, please visit http://www.artic.edu/collections/art-institute-chicago-and-terra-foundation-american-art.

John Singer Sargent, Dennis Miller Bunker Painting at Calcot, 1888, oil on canvas mounted on masonite, 27 x 25 1/4 in. (68.6 x 64.1 cm), Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.130
Collection Loan: Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment

The exhibition Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment explores ecological themes including Industrialization and environmental conservation, as well as shifts in American landscape painting. From the Terra Foundation Collection, two works are exhibited, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Hunter Mountain, Twilight and Martin Johnson Heade, Newburyport Marshes: Approaching Storm.  Organized by  Princeton University Art Museum, this exhibition is on view at the Princeton University Art Museum, October 13, 2018–January 6, 2019; Peabody Essex Museum, February 2, 2019–May 5, 2019; and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, May 25, 2019–September 9, 2019.

For more information, please visit:

https://www.pem.org/

 

Sanford Robinson Gifford, Hunter Mountain, Twilight, 1866. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.57
Collection Loan: Once upon a Time in America: Three Centuries of US American Art

This large survey exhibition is dedicated to US American art from 1650 to 1950. The show begins with works extending from the colonial era to the masters of American Realism, and ends with examples of Abstract Expressionism. For its exhibition Once Upon a Time in America, the Wallraf -Richartz is bringing to Köln over 120 loans from the most celebrated collections and museums in the United States and Europe. The majority have never or only rarely be seen in Germany. From the Terra Foundation Collection, four works are exhibited, Samuel F. B. Morse, Gallery of the Louvre, John Haberle, One Dollar Bill, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Morning in the Hudson, Haverstraw Bay and Robert Henri, Figure in Motion.  Organized by the Wallraf-Richartz Museum & Fondation Corboud this exhibition is on view November 23, 2018–March 24, 2019

For more information, please visit:
https://www.wallraf.museum/en/exhibitions/preview/2018-11-13-amerika/

John Haberle, One Dollar Bill, 1890. Oil on canvas, 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm), Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Endowment Fund, 2015.4
Collection Loan: Documenting Change: Our Climate (Past, Present and Future)

From the Terra Foundation Collection, Frederic Edwin Church’s, The Iceberg is exhibited in Documenting Change: Our Climate (Past, Present and Future), organized by University of Colorado’s  CU Art Museum, Boulder, Colorado. This dialogue between American landscape painting and early scientific photography includes historical photographs from the archives of CU Boulder’s National Snow and Ice Data Center. Our Climate (Past, Present, Future) is the second exhibition in the 2018-19 series Documenting Change. The Iceberg will be exhibited  February 7–July 20, 2019.

For more information, please see:

https://www.colorado.edu/cuartmuseum/exhibitions/currently-view/documenting-change-our-climate-rockies

Frederic Edwin Church, The Iceberg, c. 1875, oil on canvas, 22 x 27 in. (55.9 x 68.6cm), Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1993.6
Collection Loan: William J. Glackens and Pierre-August Renoir: Affinities and Distinctions

From the collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art, Julia’s Sister  by William Glackens is exhibited in William J. Glackens and Pierre-August Renoir: Affinities and Distinctions.  This work is exhibited alongside works by Renoir,  situated in themes of American and European modernism.

This exhibition will be on view at the NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October 21, 2018–May 5, 2019; and the Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN, June 21–September 21, 2019.

 

For more details, please see:  http://nsuartmuseum.org/exhibition/william-j-glackens-and-pierre-auguste-renoir-affinities-and-distinctions/

 

 

William Glackens, Julia’s Sister, c. 1915, oil on canvas, 32 1/8 x 26 1/8 in. (81.6 x 66.4 cm), Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.58