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Installation view of Some American Stories, including Yasuo Kuniyoshi's Boy with Cow (1921) and George Caleb Bingham's The Jolly Flatboatmen (1877-78) at Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine (September 26, 2024–ongoing). Photo: Luc Demers

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Terra Collection-in-Residence: Colby College Museum of Art

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A group of people looking at two prints set upon small easels atop a long table. — Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology, Oxford, UK, workshop with the University’s Translator-in-Residence Polly Barton, Curator of Japanese Art Clare Pollard, and Teaching Curator Jim Harris, who brought images by Mary Cassatt, Bertha Lum, and Arthur Dow into dialogue with nineteenth-century Japanese prints, 2023.

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Terra Collection-in-Residence: Ashmolean Museum

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Colorful, abstracted rendering of the archangel Gabriel. — David Driskell, Gabriel, 1965. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Endowment Fund, 2023.4

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Amistad II, David Driskell’s Curatorial Oeuvre, and the Artistic Legacy of the American Missionary Association of New York

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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: Ackland Art Museum’s Triple Take

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

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

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Image of person in a colorful dress sitting in front of blue artwork at an exhibition. — Calida Rawles, Thy Name We Praise, 2023.

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Calida Rawles’s Final White Dress Offers the Grace and Buoyancy We So Desperately Need(opens in a new window)

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An image of a painting of a person on a farm with a cow. — Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Boy with Cow, 1921. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Endowment Fund, 2017.1

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In the Galleries: Interpretations of Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s Boy with Cow(opens in a new window)

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Increasing Museum Accessibility: New Tactile Replicas Enhance Visually Impaired Visitor Experience(opens in a new window)

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Image of artworks on a wall. — The Terra Foundation's painting Sylvester (1914) by Robert Henri, installed alongside objects from the permanent collection of the Ackland Art Museum. Photo courtesy Ackland Art Museum

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Terra Collection-in-Residence: Ackland Art Museum

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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. — Samuel F. B. Morse, Gallery of the Louvre, 1831–33. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1992.51

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Teaching and Collaborating at Harvard Art Museums with Terra Collection-in-Residence

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A purple cloth with embroidered imagery titled Becoming White, by artist Ger Xiong. — Ger Xiong, Becoming White, 2021; fabric, thread, and copper; 71 x 61 x 2 in. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Bill Moree. Photo courtesy of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center.

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Grants Awarded March 2023

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