Sources of Articles and Essays Indexed by State within the United States
Institutional sources listed in alphabetical order within state name:
(above: Maurice Braun, The Wood Lot, c. 1920s, oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches, Liveauctioneers.com. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
(above: Vera Bock, Work Pays America! Prosperity, c. 1936-1941, WPA Federal Art Project. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, WPA Poster Collection, POS-WPA-NY.B635, no. 12)
Texas
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery
Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston
Cowboy Artists of America Museum
Dougherty Arts Center / Julia Butridge Gallery
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Museum of Texas Tech University
Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
Sid Richardson Collection of Western Art
Southwestern Watercolor Society
Stark University Center Galleries
Texas State Capitol Historical Art Collection
(above, John Cogan, Portrait
of Red Arch Mountain, 2019, acrylic. photo courtesy of National Park
Service. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
Utah
Brigham Young University Museum of Art
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art
Utah Museum of Fine Arts at University of Utah
(above: Frederic Edwin Church, Otter Creek, Middlebury, Vermont, 1854, oil on canvas, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
Vermont
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
Bennington Center for the Arts
Middlebury College Museum of Art
(above: George Cooke (1793-1849), Patrick Henry arguing the "Parson's Cause," c. 1834. Courtesy of the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
Virginia
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center / Colonial Williamsburg
American Academy of Equine Art
Bayly Art Museum at the University of Virginia
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature, University of Richmond Museums
University of Virginia Art Museum
Virginia State Capitol Art Collection
Washington
Ethnic Heritage Art Gallery at Seattle Municipal Tower
(above: Richard Zoellner, West Virginia Landscape, 1941, tempera on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the General Services Administration. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
West Virginia
(above: Carl Von Marr, Adoration of the Christ Child, n.d., oil on canvas, Museum of Wisconsin Art. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
Wisconsin
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
Milwaukee County Historical Society
Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum
(above: Elling William Gollings, Winter Night, 1928. oil on canvas: 14 x 10 inches, Source: Potomack Company. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
Wyoming
Buffalo Bill Historical Center
National Museum of Wildlife Art
National Park Academy of the Arts
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