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  • Painting on Paper: American Watercolors at Princeton

    Painting on Paper: American Watercolors at Princeton

    This summer, the Art Museum presents its first-ever exhibition devoted solely to American watercolors. Painting on Paper comprises highlights from the Museum’s rich collection, supplemented by loans from the University’s Graphic Arts, Rare Books and Manuscripts, and Western Americana collections...
  • In the Classroom: Picturing Ecology

    In the Classroom: Picturing Ecology

    What can an eighteenth-century Chippendale chest, a pre-Civil War genre painting, a Gilded Age group portrait, and a twentieth-century photograph of lichen-covered rock tell us about our evolving modes of environmental perception and ecological thought? During the fall of 2014,...
  • Portraits of a President: A Video Feature

    Portraits of a President: A Video Feature

    In this video, Karl Kusserow, the John Wilmerding Curator of American Art at the Princeton University Art Museum, explains the unique history of a pair of George Washington portraits and the connections they have to both Princeton and American history.
  • Picturing Power: Capitalism, Democracy, and American Portraiture

    Picturing Power: Capitalism, Democracy, and American Portraiture

    Picturing Power: Capitalism, Democracy, and American Portraiture gathers together fifty-one of the best portraits from the now-dispersed New York Chamber of Commerce collection in a dense, Salon-style installation evoking their former majestic display at the the group's building near Wall...
  • American Prospects: Nineteenth-Century City Views by William James Bennett

    American Prospects: Nineteenth-Century City Views by William James Bennett

    The English painter and engraver William James Bennett produced a series of eighteen aquatint views of American cities, ranging from Boston in the North to Mobile, Alabama, on the Gulf of Mexico. One of only two known complete sets of...