Coming Of Age

American Art 1850s-1950s

14 March 2008 - 8 June 2008

Paintings from the Addison Gallery of American Art, Massachusetts.

American Art 1850s-1950s

Patrick Henry Bruce, Peinture/Nature Morte (detail), ca. 1924.
Oil and graphite on canvas, 28 3/4 x 36 1/4 in.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; gift of Mr. and Mrs. William H. lANE (1958.38).
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Coming Of Age: American Art 1850s-1950s

'With over a century of works and full of surprises, a fascinating show reveals how American painting finally broke with Europe' Laura Cumming, The Observer, Sunday March 16 2008

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Coming of Age: American Art 1850-1950s featured 70 works from the Addison Gallery of American Art, Boston, and represented a century of US art - covering a variety of styles and subjects.

Sea paintings by Winslow Homer, portraits by Thomas Eakins, landscape by John Singer Sargent and James McNeil Whistler, flower painting by Georgia O'Keefe and abstract art by Jackson Pollock were among the famous works in this exhibition which charted the development of American Art.

Over the hundred year period covered in the exhibtion, American art and culture came of age, evolving from the provincial to the international.