Montclair Art Museum
Montclair, NJ
973-746-5555
http://www.montclairartmuseum.org/
The Montclair Art Museum, founded in 1914, houses a distinguished and important American art collection spanning two centuries. Its impressive Greek Revival-style building, surrounded by an arboretum and flanked by Hermon Atkins MacNeil's The Sun Vow and Allan Houser's Earth Mother sculptures, contributes to the town of Montclair's historic local color.
The Museum has a national and international reputation for its fine collection of American art and Native American art and artifacts. The quality of MAM's collection and the breadth of history and culture it encompasses, are in many ways unique. Included are more than 15,000 objects, over 600 of which represent the development of an American voice in painting from the mid-18th century to the present. Among these are examples from John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, Charles Willson Peale, Thomas Sully, Thomas Cole Jasper F. Cropsey, and Daniel Huntington. The collection also encompasses works on paper, sculptures, and costumes. The Museum's extensive Rand Collection of Native American art and artifacts (approximately 6,000 objects) represents the cultural development of various peoples in the Plains, Southwest, California Intermountain, Northwest, and Eastern woodlands regions, with particularly distinguished examples of baskets and jewelry.
The Montclair Art Museum is located at 3 South Mountain Avenue in Montclair, New Jersey, 12 miles west of Manhattan. The Museum is accessible by public transportation. For hours and admission fees explore the MAM website.
Funding for all Museum programs is made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of The National Endowment for the Arts, PNC Bank and Museum members.
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