American Painting - Section 218 (18) La collection de peinture illustre presque toutes les phases de l‘histoire de l'art américain, depuis la fin du XVIIIème siècle, jusqu'au début du XXème siècle. Les peintures et les sculptures des artistes nés après 1876, ainsi que les Objets d'Art créés après la Première Guerre mondiale, sont présentés au sein d'un département consacré aux Arts du XXème siècle.
The Early Hudson River School - Section 219 (22) The Early Hudson River School In the 1820s, just as the nation entered a period of great spiritual, economic, and geographic expansion, at a moment when painting of all types began to enjoy wide popularity, landscape painting achieved dominance in the American art world.
The Late Hudson River School - Section 221 (18) The Late Hudson River School American Landscape painting in the middle years of the nineteenth century was dominated by a diverse group of painters whose aims was to capture in detail the appearence of the American continent, whichwas then rapidly being explored and opened to development.
