Terra Museum of American Art
Chicago, IL
312-664-3939
http://www.terramuseum.org/
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."
A Google Book Search conducted
August 30, 2009 located the following books relating to American
representational art indicated as having been published by the museum:
N.C. Wyth and his grandson: a legacy, by Stephen May, 1997 - 8
pages
Two centuries of American folk painting: exhibition February 10-April
21, 1985, by Robert Charles Bishop, 1985, 6 pages
Monotypes by Maurice Prendergast in the Terra Museum of American Art,
By Cecily Langdale, 1984, 159 pages. Original from: the University of Michigan,
Digitized Nov 14, 2007. ISBN 0932171001, 9780932171009
Two hundred years of American painting: from private Chicago collections
: [exhibition] June 25 - September 2, 1983, 48 pages
American super realism: from the Morton G Neumann Family collection
: [exhibition] November 4 - December 7, 1983, By Linda Chase, 1983, 48 pages
American naive paintings: from the National Gallery of Art December
19, 1981-March 14, 1982, by Ronald McKnight Melvin, 32 pages
Five American masters of watercolor: Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent,
Maurice Prendergast, John Marin, Charles Burchfield : [exhibition] May
5 - July 12, 1981, 1981, 32 pages
LIFE IN 19TH CENTURY AMERICA: AN EXHIBITION OF AMERICAN GENRE PAINTING,
1981, 48 pages
Book information courtesy of Google Books and Terra Foundation for American
Art. This is not a complete list.
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