At the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, USA, visitors now have the chance of discovering some of the best works of several famous American masters, from the museum's own collection, out together over the years by it's first director, John W. Beatty. The drawings and watercolours selected by the curators present some of the best works of famous American artists such as Winslow Homer, James McNeill Whistler, William Glackens or Frederick Childe Hassam, and have rarely been seen in exhibitions.
John W. Beatty, himself an artist, was the first director of the Carnegie Museum of Art, in 1896 - 1922 and at the same time was a passionate collector, interested mainly in drawings and sketches. Due to his efforts and keen sense collecting, Beatty enriched the museum's treasures with almost 200 drawings and watercolours, produced by several important American artists of his time. In 1922, after Beatty was no longer the director of the museum, the buying of drawings and watercolours was abandoned for more than three decades, until the directorate of Gordon Bailey Washburn.
Winslow Homer - Watching from the Cliffs, 1892
The exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art is a unique chance of seeing together a great number of little known creations by some of the greatest names in US art.
Photo : cmoa.org
2007-07-04
