Westmoreland Museum of American Art
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| Established | 1959 |
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| Location | Greensburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 40°18′22″N 79°32′41″W / 40.3060°N 79.5448°W |
| Type | Art museum |
| Accreditation | AAM |
| Collections | American art & sculpture |
| Founder | Mary Marchand Woods |
| Director | Silvia Filippini-Fantoni[1] |
| Curator | Jeremiah William McCarthy[1] |
| Architect | Ennead Architects |
| Employees | 26[1] |
| Public transit access | N Main St + Park St (Museum) WCTA |
| Nearest parking | On site (no charge) |
| Website | thewestmoreland |
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art is an art museum in Greensburg, Pennsylvania devoted to American art, with a particular concentration on the art of southwestern Pennsylvania.[2]
Art lover and Greensburg resident Mary Marchand Woods hand down her entire estate to establish The Woods Marchand Foundation in 1949. The museum developed from this foundation, opening ten years later.[3]
The museum has expanded several times, beginning with a west-wing addition in 1968.[4] In 2015, the museum reopened after two years of major renovations to expand and modernize its facilities. The expansion added 13,287 square feet to its original 30,000 area, where a cantilevered wing was added for exhibitions.[3][4]
William H. Gerdts wrote that
... in western Pennsylvania the Westmoreland Museum of Art in Greensburg, rather than the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, has pioneered regional investigations.[5]
One feature of the museum is A Tim Prentice kinetic sculpture installed on the south facade.[6]
Selected artists represented in the permanent collection
[edit]- Sharif Bey
- Tina Williams Brewer
- Mary Cassatt
- John Singleton Copley
- Stuart Davis
- Ron Donoughe
- Thomas Eakins
- Mary Regensburg Feist
- Harriet Whitney Frishmuth
- Vanessa German
- Aaron Harry Gorson
- William Harnett
- Charles Harris (photographer)
- Childe Hassam
- George Hetzel
- Winslow Homer
- Otto Kuhler
- George Luks
- Paul Manship
- John Harvey McCracken
- Thaddeus Mosley
- Rembrandt Peale
- John Singer Sargent
- Richard Allen Stoner
- Gilbert Stuart
- Mickalene Thomas
- Louis Comfort Tiffany
- Benjamin West
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Board + Staff". The Westmoreland Museum of American Art. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
- ^ Fahlman, Betsy (2006). "Current Research on the Art of Industry Artists at Work: Imaging Place, Work, and Process". IA, The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology. 32 (2). Society for Industrial Archeology: 55–56. JSTOR 40968738.
- ^ a b "Mission + History". The Westmoreland Museum of American Art. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
- ^ a b May, Mike (2015-10-29). "Curtain Rises on a Reinvented Westmoreland Museum of American Art". Pittsburgh Magazine. Retrieved 2024-08-20.
- ^ Gerdts, William H. (1990). Art Across America: Two Centuries of Regional Painting, 1710-1920. Vol. One. New York, NY: Abbeville Press. p. 13. ISBN 1-55859-033-1.
- ^ Thomas, M. (18 October 2015). "Westmoreland Museum of American Art spreads its wings". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
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