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.

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

Samuel F. B. Morse’s painting Gallery of the Louvre (1831–33) is examined in 2012 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Terra Collection in Focus
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Terra Collection in Focus: Arthur Dove’s Boat Going Through Inlet -
Terra Collection in Focus: George Bellows’s The Palisades -
Terra Collection in Focus: Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s Boy with Cow -
Terra Collection in Focus: Mary Cassatt’s Summertime -
Terra Collection in Focus: Everett Shinn’s Theater Scene -
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 -
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 -
Terra Collection in Focus: Edward Hicks’s A Peaceable Kingdom with Quakers Bearing Banners -
Terra Collection in Focus: Childe Hassam’s Commonwealth Avenue, Boston -
Terra Collection in Focus: Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre