Terra Museum of American Art

Chicago, IL

312-664-3939

http://www.terramuseum.org/

• Conversion to Modernism: The Early Work of Man Ray (1/31/04)
• Leaving the Country: George Bellows at Woodstock (11/19/03)
• Debating American Modernism: Stieglitz, Duchamp, and the New York Avant-Garde (8/8/03)
• The Master Prints of Edward S. Curtis: Portraits of Native America (7/14/03)
• Out of the Shadows: Helen Torr, A Retrospective (7/14/03)
• A Rich Simplicity: Folk Art from the Terra Foundation for the Arts Collection (7/14/03)
• First Exposure: The Sketchbooks and Photographs of Theodore Robinson (10/13/00)
• Indivisible: Stories of American Community (10/13/00)
• In Search of The Promised Land: Paintings by Frederic Edwin Church (7/21/00)
• Figures and Forms: Selections from the Terra Foundatian for the Arts (5/20/00)
• The American West: Out of Myth, Into Reality (3/11/00)
• Outsider and Folk Art: The Chicago Collections (10/30/99), revised (1/8/00)
• The City and the Country: American Perspectives 1870-1920 (10/18/99)
• Arthur Wesley Dow and American Arts & Crafts (9/99)

Terra Museum of American Art was founded in Evanston, Illinois in 1980 by the late Daniel J. Terra, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Cultural Affairs, a successful businessman and an avid collector of American art. The museum ceased operations in October 2004.

In 1992 Ambassador Terra opened a second institution, the Musée d'Art Américain Giverny in France, home to a colony of American artists who had come to work in the village where Monet had moved his studio in 1883.

The Terra Foundation for American Art presents an 2003 online video titled VTS: A Tool for Building Visual Literacy, Language Skills, and Critical Thinking. According to the web page for the video, "In this video, art educator Philip Yenawine demonstrates the Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) to a group of educators participating in a 2003 workshop at the Terra Museum of American Art... [It] documents Yenawine facilitating a VTS discussion about a painting in the Terra Foundation for American Art collection, Gallery of the Louvre by Samuel F.B. Morse."

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