Terra Museum Of American Art
Terra Museum Of American Art
Now here is a fun venue and something definitely off the beaten path, yet it's a quietly popular venue for visitors to the Windy City.
This Museum was started by Daniel J. Terra in the 1970s and growing to this day, the Terra Foundation's collection of American art spans the colonial era through 1945 and includes more than seven hundred paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, and sculptures.
There is an outstanding collection of artists represented in this collection. The exhibitions feature work by such artists as George Bellows, Mary Cassatt, John Singleton Copley, Stuart Davis, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, Maurice Prendergast (whose sixty monotypes in the collection compose the largest institutional holding of his work in this medium), and James McNeill Whistler, as well as the early American masterpiece by Samuel F. B. Morse, Gallery of the Louvre from the early 1800s.
At any given time, you are likely to find works by Maurice Prendergast with his collection of artworks from the late 1800s displayed. There are also artworks by Ammi Phillips with her well known Girl In A Red Dress on display. You can also see works by Picasso himself, fantastic French impressionism and so much more.
The Terra Museum of art is a large venue with a lot of artworks displayed to showcase the very diversity of the artists in the area. Make sure this is a stop of you and your group on your next visit to Chicago.
Now here is a fun venue and something definitely off the beaten path, yet it's a quietly popular venue for visitors to the Windy City.
This Museum was started by Daniel J. Terra in the 1970s and growing to this day, the Terra Foundation's collection of American art spans the colonial era through 1945 and includes more than seven hundred paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, and sculptures.
There is an outstanding collection of artists represented in this collection. The exhibitions feature work by such artists as George Bellows, Mary Cassatt, John Singleton Copley, Stuart Davis, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, Maurice Prendergast (whose sixty monotypes in the collection compose the largest institutional holding of his work in this medium), and James McNeill Whistler, as well as the early American masterpiece by Samuel F. B. Morse, Gallery of the Louvre from the early 1800s.
At any given time, you are likely to find works by Maurice Prendergast with his collection of artworks from the late 1800s displayed. There are also artworks by Ammi Phillips with her well known Girl In A Red Dress on display. You can also see works by Picasso himself, fantastic French impressionism and so much more.
The Terra Museum of art is a large venue with a lot of artworks displayed to showcase the very diversity of the artists in the area. Make sure this is a stop of you and your group on your next visit to Chicago.
