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Terra Collection Initiative: A New Look: Samuel F. B. Morse’s “Gallery of the Louvre”

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An abstracted view of a New York harbor scene.

John Marin, Sailboat, Brooklyn Bridge, New York Skyline, 1934. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Endowment Fund, 2006.1

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Terra Collection Initiative: Art Across America

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A painting of a group of men on top of a flat boat sailing down a river. Two men play instruments while one man dances and four other men watch.

George Caleb Bingham, The Jolly Flatboatmen, 1877–78. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1992.15

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Terra Collection Initiative: American Encounters: Genre Painting and Everyday Life

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Painting of an iceberg in the sea with a ship in front of it.

Frederic Edwin Church, The Iceberg, c. 1875. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1993.6

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Terra Collection Initiative: Through American Eyes: Frederic Church and the Landscape Oil Sketch

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A seated woman with a child in her lap.

Mary Cassatt, Jenny and Her Sleepy Child, c. 1891–92. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1988.24

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Terra Collection Initiative: American Impressionism: A New Vision, 1880–1900

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Terra Collection Initiative: American Encounters: Anglo-American Portraiture in an Era of Revolution

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Terra Collection Initiative: America: Painting a Nation

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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

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Terra Collection Initiative: Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic

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Common Core Questions for Discussing Artworks

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Gender Equality in the Visual Arts at Gallery 400

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How to Read an Art Label

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