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18th Nov 2009

American Art from the McGlothlin Collection

Source: http://www.vmfa.state.va.us

This exhibition of more than 70 paintings, works on paper and sculptures - dating from the antebellum to the modern periods - is drawn from one of the finest private collections of historical American art in the country.

Featured artists include George Bellows, Mary Cassatt, William Merrit Chase, Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, Robert Henri, Winslow Homer, George Luks, William Rimmer, John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler.

"American Art from the McGlothlin Collection" celebrates the opening of VMFA's $150-million expansion and pays tribute to donors James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin. All works in the exhibition are promised gifts to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 200 N. Boulevard, Richmond VA 23220-4007