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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

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Terra Collection-in-Residence

Terra Collection-in-Residence: Ackland Art Museum’s Triple Take

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Terra Collection-in-Residence

Mirrors, minors, and Modernism in dialogue at the new Ackland exhibit(opens in a new window)

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Terra Collection-in-Residence

Ackland’s newest exhibition features a breadth of artworks from the Terra Foundation(opens in a new window)

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Collections Grants

Exhibition Review: ᐆᒻᒪᖁᑎᒃ uummaqutik: essence of life(opens in a new window)

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Collections Grants

Terra Foundation Makes Grant to the Loeb for Reinstallation of Vassar’s Founding Galleries(opens in a new window)

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Art Design Chicago

Toy Stories: The Amazing Journey of Dalia Verbickas Ancevicius From Lithuanian Refugee Camp in Germany to Designing Iconic American Toys to, Now, a Museum Show at the Age of Eighty-Six(opens in a new window)

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Three people in a gallery looking at three works of art hanging on a wall.(opens in a new window)

“Pictures of Belonging” documents the work of three female artists whose careers were deeply affected by prison camps in the United States during World War II.Credit...via Smithsonian American Art Museum; Photo by Albert Ting

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Exhibition Grants

With Their Lives Upended, They Practiced the Art of Resilience(opens in a new window)

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Salle Labrouste © Institut national d'histoire de l'art, 2017

Terra Foundation Initiative

Past Fellowships and Teaching Programs

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Fellows Database

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Initiatives

Celebrating 70 Years of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art(opens in a new window)

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Image of painting featuring a person with a green and white dress.(opens in a new window)

William Matthew Prior, “Mrs. Nancy Lawson” (1843), oil on canvas (© Shelburne Museum; image courtesy the Shelburne Museum)

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Exhibition Grants

The Invisible Presence of Blackness in American Art(opens in a new window)

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A family looks at a painting inside the National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen on Sept. 6, 2014.

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Initiatives

Latinos Create Opportunities for Their Community in Cultural Institutions(opens in a new window)

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