Exhibition: Picturing America: Masterworks from the Westmoreland Museum of American Art - 09/28/2014

57 paintings & sculptures that describe the American experience from the Colonial period to early Modernism

From the 1758 Portrait of John Gardiner by John Singleton Copley to Milton Avery’s Arrangement with Plants of 1948, the exhibition Picturing America presents paintings and sculptures that describe the American experience from the pre-Revolutionary War era to early Modernism. Renowned artists represented in this selection from the collection of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art include Milton Avery, Mary Cassatt, John Singleton Copley, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, George Inness, Paul Manship, John Sloan, and Benjamin West, as well as Charles Wilson Peale and his children Rembrandt, Rubens, and Mary Jane. The rich variety of expressive means including still-life, portraiture, genre and abstraction, represented by the works in the exhibition, provides a visual embodiment of such national ideals as freedom, diversity, and opportunity.

Picturing America: Signature Works from the Westmoreland Museum of American Art is organized and toured by the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA.