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Terra Collection in Focus

Samuel F. B. Morse’s painting Gallery of the Louvre (1831–33) is examined in 2012 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

The Terra Foundation continually re-envisions its collection of American art, conducts research, invites multiple interpretations, and employs advanced conservation practices to learn from and preserve nearly 800 paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, and sculptures from the 1750s to the 1980s. In this section, you’ll find video documentation and interpretation of works in the collection.

Videos

Terra Collection in Focus: Arthur Dove’s Boat Going Through Inlet

Painting of the Hudson River in wintertime from the west side of Manhattan Island in New York City. It is framed by tall trees, the scene looks west across the river toward the cliffs known as the Palisades, in New Jersey. White, patchy snow is echoed by the powerful plume of steam billowing from the funnel of a southbound locomotive.

Terra Collection in Focus: George Bellows’s The Palisades

Painting of a boy and a cow, with buildings in the background and a black sky.

Terra Collection in Focus: Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s Boy with Cow

Impressionist paining of a woman and a girl in a small boat leaning over the side to look into the water. Two ducks are floating on the multicolored blue water.

Terra Collection in Focus: Mary Cassatt’s Summertime

Terra Collection in Focus: Everett Shinn’s Theater Scene

Painting of a woman standing in a garden. Her dress blends in with the flowers around her.

Terra Collection in Focus: Frederick Frieseke’s Lady in a Garden

Terra Collection in Focus: Erastus Salisbury Field’s Portrait of a Woman said to be Clarissa Gallond Cook, in front of a Cityscape

Painting of a woman reading a book.

Terra Collection in Focus: Milton Avery’s Adolescence

Terra Collection in Focus: George Caleb Bingham’s The Jolly Flatboatmen

Terra Collection in Focus: Guy Rose’s Giverny Hillside

Terra Collection in Focus: Washington Allston’s Lorenzo and Jessica

Visual allegory painting of the Old Testament prophecy of peace between natural enemies. On the right, a child bearing a bough of grapes, an emblem of salvation, leads a harmonious assortment of wild predators and domestic animals from a dark wood into a peaceful natural landscape. In the left distance, a white mountain is crowned by thirteen figures representing Christ and the Apostles; below them, angels deploy a swirling banner, bearing biblical messages of peace, that floats among a gathering of soberly dressed Quaker elders—a group that includes women, whom the Quakers respected as preachers.

Terra Collection in Focus: Edward Hicks’s A Peaceable Kingdom with Quakers Bearing Banners

Painting, whose composition is dominated by the steeply receding diagonal of the street, echoed by a row of elm trees in early-autumnal tints.

Terra Collection in Focus: Childe Hassam’s Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

Painting of the Salon Carré in the Louvre art museum in Paris hung with masterpieces of European art primarily from the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

Terra Collection in Focus: Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre