Past Projects and Initiatives

Terra Collection Initiative

Results

Installation photograph of framed paintings on three walls. — Installation photograph, Pelas ruas: vida moderna e experiências urbanas na arte dos Estados Unidos, 1893–1976, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil, photo by Isabella Matheus

Terra Collection Initiative: In The Streets: Modern Life and Urban Experiences in the Art of the United States, 1893-1976

A painting of an expanse of land that has been deforested, with stumps of trees scattered in the foreground. It is dusk, and a mountain rises in the distance. — Sanford Robinson Gifford, Hunter Mountain, Twilight, 1866. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.57

Terra Collection Initiative: The Studio of Nature, 1860–1910. The Terra Collection in Context

A portrait of a seated woman. She wears a draped silk gown and holds a basket of flowers. — John Singleton Copley, Portrait of Mrs. John Stevens (Judith Sargent, later Mrs. John Murray), 1770–72. Oil on canvas, image: 50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm), frame: 56 1/4 x 46 3/16 x 3 1/4 in. (142.9 x 117.3 x 8.3 cm), Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Endowment Fund, 2000.6.

Terra Collection Initiative: Our Souls are by Nature Equal to Yours: The Life and Legacy of Judith Sargent Murray

An etching of abstract lines and shapes. — Stanley William Hayter, Cinq Personnages, 1946. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1995.37

Terra Collection Initiative: Atelier 17 e a gravura moderna nas Américas / Atelier 17 and Modern Printmaking in the Americas

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

Terra Collection Initiative: Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945

A red barn against a blue sky. — Charles Sheeler, Bucks County Barn, 1940. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.135

Terra Collection Initiative: America’s Cool Modernism: O’Keeffe to Hopper

A painting of a mountainous scene with a river. A group of three tepees sit alongside the river. — Worthington Whittredge, Indian Encampment, between 1870 and 1876. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.151

Terra Collection Initiative: Continental Shift: Nineteenth-Century American and Australian Landscape Painting

Terra Collection Initiative: William Merritt Chase: A Modern Master

Terra Collection Initiative: Fitz Henry Lane & Mary Blood Mellen: A Scholar’s Convening, November 15, 2007

Two people stand on a stage in a theater. — Everett Shinn, Theater Scene, 1903. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.136

Terra Collection Initiative: The Eight and American Modernisms

Terra Collection Initiative: Prendergast in Italy

A colorful garden with many types of bright flowers. — John Leslie Breck, Garden at Giverny (In Monet's Garden), between 1887 and 1891. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1988.22

Terra Collection Initiative: Monet and the Artists of Giverny: The Beginning of American Impressionism