Los Angeles County Museum/National Museum of Korea/Art Gallery of New South Wales
$849,968
Los Angeles, California/Seoul, South Korea/Sydney, Australia
2012

To support the 2013–14 exhibition, Art Across America, at the National Museum of Korea, Daejeon Museum of Art, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales (under the title America: Painting a Nation). Co-organized by Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the National Museum of Korea, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Terra Foundation for American Art, the exhibition is the first major survey of historical American art mounted in Korea and Australia and features more than 100 American paintings and six vignettes of decorative arts and design drawn from the collections of the U.S. partners. In addition to the support provided to the co-organizers, the National Museum of Korea and the Art Gallery of New South Wales received funding for a series of public lectures, education programs, and a major publication featuring texts in Korean and English.

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