The first major survey of historical American art mounted in South Korea, Art Across America featured 120 American paintings and six vignettes of decorative arts and design drawn from four U. S. collections. Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Terra Foundation for American Art in collaboration with the National Museum of Korea, the exhibition offered Korean audiences a unique perspective on three centuries of American art and identity: from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the countryside to the city, and from the colonial era to the modern period. The exhibition was accompanied by a scholarly symposium and a series of lectures, other educational programming, and a major publication featuring texts in Korean and English, the first book on historical American art to be published in South Korea. Distributed by the Cultural Foundation of the NMK, the publication has become the premier American art textbook in Korea. Over 100,000 visitors attended the exhibition.
Dates & Venues
February 4–May 19, 2013
National Museum of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
June 17–September 1, 2013
Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, South Korea
Works of Art from the Terra Foundation Collection
- Thomas Hart Benton, Slaves, 1925
- Joseph H. Boston, From Shore to Shore, 1885
- John George Brown, Picnic Party in the Woods, 1872
- George de Forest Brush, The Weaver, 1889
- Mary Cassatt, Summertime, 1894
- Jefferson David Chalfant, The Blacksmith, between 1900 and 1907
- Thomas Cole, Landscape with Figures: A Scene from “The Last of the Mohicans,” 1826
- John Singleton Copley, Portrait of a Lady in a Blue Dress, 1763
- Eanger Irving Couse, Making Pottery, 1912
- Charles Demuth, Welcome to Our City, 1921
- Erastus Salisbury Field, Portrait of a Woman said to be Clarissa Gallond Cook, in Front of a Cityscape, c. 1838
- Frederick Frieseke, Lilies, by 1911
- Childe Hassam, Une Averse—rue Bonaparte, 1887
- Edward Hicks, A Peaceable Kingdom with Quakers Bearing Banners, 1829 or 1830
- William S. Jewett, The Promised Land – The Grayson Family, 1850
- Eastman Johnson, Fiddling His Way, c.1866
- John Lewis Krimmel, Blind Man’s Buff, 1814
- Walt Kuhn, Clown with Drum, 1942
- John La Farge, Paradise Valley, 1866–68
- John Marin, Sailboat, Brooklyn Bridge, New York Skyline, 1934
- Willard Metcalf, Havana Harbor, 1902
- William Sidney Mount, The Trap Sprung, 1844
- Rembrandt Peale, George Washington, Porthole Portrait, after 1824
- Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Salem Willows, 1904
- Theodore Robinson, The Wedding March, 1892
- John Singer Sargent, A Parisian Beggar Girl, c.1880
- Everett Shinn, Theater Scene, 1903
- Walter Ufer, Builders of the Desert, 1923
- Max Weber, Construction, 1915
- Thomas Waterman Wood, The Yankee Pedlar, 1872
Publication
Woolim, Kim, Kim Jinmyung, and Yang Songhyok, eds. Art Across America. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2013.
