Westmoreland Museum of American Art

Art museum in Pennsylvania, U.S.

40°18′22″N 79°32′41″W / 40.3060°N 79.5448°W / 40.3060; -79.5448TypeArt museumAccreditationAAMCollectionsAmerican art & sculptureFounderMary Marchand WoodsDirectorSilvia Filippini-Fantoni^[1]CuratorJeremiah William McCarthy^[1]ArchitectEnnead ArchitectsEmployees26^[1]Public transit accessN Main St + Park St (Museum) WCTANearest parkingOn site (no charge)Websitethewestmoreland.org

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 Mary Marchand Woods bequeathed her entire estate to establish The Woods Marchand Foundation in 1949. The museum developed from this foundation, opening ten years later.^[3]

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.^[4]

A Tim Prentice kinetic sculpture is installed on the south facade.^[5]

Selected artists represented in the permanent collection

Sharif Bey
Tina Williams Brewer
Mary Cassatt
John Singleton Copley
Stuart Davis
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
Thaddeus Mosley
Rembrandt Peale
John Singer Sargent
Richard Allen Stoner
Mickalene Thomas
Benjamin West
Gilbert Stuart

References

^ ^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.
^ "Mission + History". The Westmoreland Museum of American Art. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
^ 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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