Sources of Articles and Essays Indexed by State within the United States
Institutional sources listed in alphabetical order within state name:
(above: N. C. Wyeth, Mending Traps, Martinsville, Maine, c.1934-36, oil on canvas, 31.9 x 40 inches, Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
Maine
Hudson Museum at University of Maine
Ogunquit Museum of American Art
University of Southern Maine Art Gallery
(above, William McGregor Paxton, Girl
Sweeping, 1912, oil on canvas, 12 x 20 inches, Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
Maryland
Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Museum
(above: Childe Hassam, Gloucester
Harbor, c. 1899, oil on canvas, 25 x 26.1 inches, Norton Museum of Art.
Bequest of R. H. Norton. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
Massachusetts
Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy
Boston University Art Galleries
Cape Ann Historical Association
Carney Gallery at Regis College
Clark (Sterling and Francine) Art Institute
Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
Heritage Plantation of Sandwich
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
University Gallery - University of Massachussetts Amherst
Williams College Museum of Art
(above, Gari Melchers, Madonna of the Fields, 1895, c. 1895, gouache on canvas, 30 x 27 inches, Telfair Museums. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
Michigan
Kresge Art Gallery at Olivet College
Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum
Michigan State University Museum
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Minnesota
American Society of Classical Realism
Atelier du Nord: A School of Classical Realism
Atelier Studio Program of Fine Art
Bell Museum of Natural History
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at the University of Minnesota
Hennepin County Historical Society
Minnesota Museum of American Art
Mississippi
(above: George Caleb Bingham (American, 1811-1879). Fur Traders Descending the Missouri,1845. Oil on canvas, 29 x 36 1/2 inches. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1933 (33.61.). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
Missouri
Ashby-Hodge Gallery of American Art
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Religious Art at St. Louis University
National Oil and Acrylic Painters' Society
Truman Presidential Museum and Library
Montana
Nebraska
Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art
Great Plains Art Collection - University of Nebraska
International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Nebraska State Historical Society
Nevada
(above: Thomas Cole, A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains, 1839, oil on canvas, 40.1 x 61.3 inches, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Andrew W. Mellon Fund. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
New Hampshire
New Hampshire State House Art Collection
Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site
University of New Hampshire Art Gallery
Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery at Keene State College
(above: Thomas Moran, Beverly,
N.J., 1880-89, watercolor on wove paper, 7.40 x 13.97 inches, Courtesy
of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Public domain, via Wikimedia
Commons*)
New Jersey
George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University
Rutgers University - Paul Robeson Gallery
(above: E. Irving Couse (1866-1936), The Lovers, 1909, oil on canvas, Brigham Young University Museum of Art. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
New Mexico
Hubbard Museum of the American West
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
Museum of International Folk Art
Museum of Spanish Colonial Art
New Mexico Miniature Arts Society
New Mexico State Capitol Art Gallery
New Mexico State University Art Gallery, Williams Hall
Van Vechten-Lineberry Taos Art Museum
(above: Frederick Edwin Church, Clouds over Olana, 1872, oil on paper, 8 5/8 x 12 1/8 inches, Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, New York. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
New York
Aesthetic Realism Foundation - The Terrain Gallery
Albany Institute of History and Art
American Academy of Arts & Letters
Burchfield - Penney Art Center
Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery
Drawing Academy of the Atlantic
Emerson Gallery at Hamilton College
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Genesee Country Village & Museum
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Long Island Museum of Art, History and Carriages
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
Munson Williams Proctor Institute
New Rochelle Council on The Arts - Lumen Winter Gallery - New Rochelle Library
Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art
Society of Illustrators Museum of American Illustration
Whitney Museum of American Art
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center
(above: Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Designed by Walter D. Richards, National Parks Centennial - Cape Hatteras National Seashore, 2-cent 4 stamps block, 1972, U.S. Postal Service; National Postal Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
North Carolina
Appalachian State University - Catherine J. Smith Gallery
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
North Carolina Museum of History
Reynolda House Museum of American Art
North Dakota
(above: Worthington Whittredge, The Camp Meeting, n.d., oil on canvas, 15.9 in x 40.6 in. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
Ohio
Butler Institute of American Art
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
The Jubilee Museum & Catholic Cultural Center
Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago
Ohio Arts Council Riffe Gallery
Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University
Oklahoma
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History
(above: James Everett Stuart, Crater Lake, Looking West from the Surface of the Water, 1882, oil on canvas, 14 x 22 inches, Spanierman Gallery. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
Oregon
Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon
Schneider Museum of Art at Southern Oregon University
(above: Thomas Pollock Anshutz, A Rose, 1907, oil on canvas, 57.9 x 43.8 inches, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Marguerite and Frank A. Cosgrove Jr. Fund, 1993. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
Pennsylvania
Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Frick Art and Historical Center
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Levy Gallery for the Arts in Philadelphia
Michener (James A.) Art Museum
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Silver Eye Center for Photography
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art
Westmoreland Museum of American Art
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