Presenting highlights from the Museum’s holdings of American painting, sculpture, photography, and material culture from the 18th and 19th centuries, the historical Seeing America galleries feature long-term displays dedicated to early American portraiture, the origins of folk art, and a series of three galleries showcasing Hudson River School landscape paintings, a strength of the Museum’s collection.
Ongoing special projects place Indigenous art and contemporary art in dialogue with the canon of American art history.
Long‑Term Installations
- Romantic and Democratic Portraits
- Seeing Slavery
- Saya Woolfalk: Tumbling Into Landscape
- The Rise of Landscape Painting
- The Lure of Europe
- The Gilded Age
- The New Woman