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Elm Street at Bedford Terrace
Northampton, Massachusetts
Phone: 413 585 2760 -
TTY: (413)585-2786
17th century to 20th century European and American paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs and decorative objects. In 1875, the first President of Smith College, Laurenus Clarke Seelye, called for the creation of an art gallery for the four year old women's college, "where the student may be made directly familiar with the famous masterpieces." The museum first displayed reproductions of great works of art in the western tradition.
Shortly thereafter, Seeyle began acquiring original works from contemporary American artists. Seelye's first purchase, in 1879, was Thomas Eakins's In Grandmother's Time. Since then the museum has amassed a collection of renowned 19th-century American and French paintings, as well as impressive holdings in contemporary paintings, sculpture and photography.
We are currently closed for two years of renovations so our offerings are greatly reduced.
The museum's collection contains approximately 24,000 objects from a variety of cultures and in a wide spectrum of media, ranging in date from 2500 B.C. to the present. There is an emphasis on European and American art of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Nineteenth-century French paintings: Courbet's Preparation of the Dead Girl, Degas's The Daughter of Jephthah, several Monets, including The Cathedral at Rouen, a Seurat study for La Grande Jatte, paintings by Renoir, Cezanne, Gauguin and Vuillard.
Nineteeth-century American paintings: Hudson River School landscapes, naive portraits, Bierstadt, Inness, Homer, Sargent and Whistler. Eakins's Portrait of Edith Mahon and Edwin Romanzo Elmer's The Mourning Picture are signature works from this period.
Twentieth-century European paintings: Figures by the Sea by Picasso, Glasses and Newspaper by Gris, and Dodo and her Brother by Kirchner.
Twentieth-century American paintings: Charles Sheeler's Rolling Power, Frank Stella's Damascus gate (Variation III), and Sandy Skoglund's Tools of Expression.
Sculptures: Barye, Rodin, Arp, Giacometti, Nevelson, Calder and Rickey.
Prints, Drawings and Photographs: Drawings by Ingres, Matisse, Seurat, Cezanne, Klee, Maurice Prendergast, and John James Audubon. Photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot, Ansel Adams, Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Steichen and Cindy Sherman.
Touring exhibition: http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum/tour.htm
Outdoor sculpture: http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum/nasher/index.htm
Exhibitions:
http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum/schedule.htm
Hours:
September-June
July and August
Print Room hours are September-May:
By appointment at other times.
Closed Mondays, New Year's Day, July 4, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Admission:
Free and open to the public.
Directions:
Woman with a monkey, 1884.
Georges Seurat, French, 1859-1891. Purchased, Tyron Fund, 1934.
Suzannah J. Fabing, Director
Michael Goodison, Program Coordinator and Archivist.
Marisa Giannetti, Coordinator of Publicity and Special Events
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