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Fitz Henry Lane, Dream Painting, 1862.
Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection,
1999.84

Terra Foundation Collection

Conservation Notes: Observation, Imagination, and Technique in Fitz Henry Lane’s Dream Painting

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John La Farge, Paradise Valley, 1866–68, oil on canvas, 32 5/8 x 42 in. (82.9 x 106.7 cm), Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1996.92

Terra Foundation Collection

Conservation Notes: X-Ray of John La Farge’s Paradise Valley

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Filming the video A New Look: Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre."

Terra Foundation Collection

Conservation Notes: A New Look: Samuel F. B. Morse’s “Gallery of the Louvre”

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Terra Collection Initiative: Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North

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A watercolor of a mountain range. — Edward Hopper, Sierra Madre at Monterrey, 1943. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1994.18 © Heirs of Josephine Hopper/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

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Terra Collection Initiative: Manifest Destiny/Manifest Responsibility: Environmentalism and the Art of the American Landscape

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An impressionist painting of a hillside. The foreground depicts a green and brown hillside, and a small village and trees is in the background. — Theodore Robinson, From the Hill, Giverny, between 1889–1892. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1987.6

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Terra Collection Initiative: Impressionist Giverny: A Colony of Artists, 1885–1915

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Terra Collection Initiative: Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation

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A watercolor of three boys on a rock overlooking the sea. — Winslow Homer, Three Boys on the Shore, 1873. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.75

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Terra Collection Initiative: Winslow Homer: Poet of Sea

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A painting of an empty train station at dawn. — Edward Hopper, Dawn in Pennsylvania, 1942. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.77, © Heirs of Josephine Hopper/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

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Terra Collection Initiative: American Artists and the Louvre

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