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Peabody Essex Museum,
7 TOP 10 ARTISTS OF
Salem, MA
MAP F2 • East India Sq • 978 745 NEW ENGLAND
9500 • Open 10am–5pm Tue–Sun
• Adm • www.pem.org
Staggering collections of China
Trade treasures, historic furniture,
and Asian art and artifacts fill this
soaring building by top architect
Moshe Safdie.
The Clark,
8
Williamstown, MA
MAP B2 • 225 South St • 413 458
2303 • Open 10am–5pm daily • Adm
• www.clarkart.edu
French Impressionists and English Sculptor Louise Nevelson
landscape artists are at the core of 1 John Singleton Copley
this diversified collection. (1738–1815)
America’s first great portraitist,
Bostonian Copley fled to England
during the Revolution.
2 Fitz Henry Lane (1805–65)
Largely self-tutored, Gloucester-based
Lane revolutionized the handling of
light in seascapes.
3 Winslow Homer (1836–1910)
Homer is most celebrated for his
vigorous Maine seascapes.
4 Childe Hassam (1859–1935)
Hassam painted the streets of Boston
and the Connecticut landscape with
equal flourish.
Avery Court, Wadsworth Atheneum 5 Marsden Hartley (1877–1943)
Hartley painted powerful abstract
Wadsworth Atheneum,
9 landscapes of his native Maine.
Hartford, CT
MAP C4 • 600 Main St • 860 278 2670 6 Edward Hopper (1882–1967)
While spending his summers on the
• Open 11am–5pm Wed–Fri, coast, Hopper painted scenes full of
10am–5pm Sat–Sun • Adm psychological nuance.
• www.wadsworthatheneum.org 7 Rockwell Kent (1882–1971)
America’s oldest public art museum Painter and illustrator Kent is best
has New England’s best collection of known for his stark Arctic landscapes.
the startlingly oversized landscapes 8 Norman Rockwell (1894–1978)
of the Hudson River School. Rockwell championed home-spun
Shelburne Museum, VT
0 American values in covers for The
Saturday Evening Post.
MAP J3 • Rte 7, Shelburne
• 802 985 3346 • Open May–Dec: 9 Louise Nevelson (1899–1988)
Raised in Maine, Nevelson is known
10am–5pm daily; Jan–Apr: for her Abstract Expressionist
10am–5pm Wed–Sun • Adm sculptural assemblages.
• www.shelburnemuseum.org 10 Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009)
From elaborately stitched quilts to Visual artist Wyeth is noted for the
two elaborate miniature circuses, almost photographic realism of his
the museum celebrates American tempera landscapes.
folk art and ingenuity.

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