Westmoreland Museum of American Art
Appearance
Established | 1959 |
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Location | Greensburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Coordinates | 40°18′22″N 79°32′41″W / 40.3060°N 79.5448°W |
Type | Art museum |
Director | Anne Kraybill[1] |
Curator | Barbara L. Jones[1] |
Website | thewestmoreland |
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art is an art museum in Greensburg 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 in the south facade.[5]
Selected artists represented in the permanent collection
References
- ^ a b "Westmoreland Museum staff". Retrieved September 24, 2018.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Westmoreland Museum history". Retrieved May 25, 2010.
- ^ 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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