Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
An excellent collection of American paintings, prints and works on paper from the Colonial period to the present. Includes a significant number of nineteenth-century works.

Amon Carter Museum, 3501 Camp Bowie Boulevard, Fort Worth, TX
Begun in 1961 as a western collection with, mostly, Remingtons, the collection is now more varied.

Art Institute of Chicago, Michigan Avenue at Adams Street, Chicago, IL
The collection includes American painting, sculpture and decorative arts from the Colonial period to the present.

Brooklyn Museum, 188 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY
The collection of American painting is considered one of the best in the United States. Among the nineteenth-century artists represented are Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Albert Bierstadt, George Caleb Bingham, John Singer Sargent, George Inness, andWinslow Homer. The collection also includesAmerican period rooms, sculpture, costumes, and decorative arts.

Cincinnati Art Museum, Eden Park, Cincinnati, OH
A col lection with significant examples of nineteenth-and twentieth-century American art.

Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH
An excellent collection with thorough range of American painting and decorative arts.

Corcoran Gallery of Art, New York Avenue and Seventeenth Street NW, Washington, DC. The collection includes American portraiture and landscape painting. Strong collection of Hudson River School landscapes, and significant paintings by Albert Bierstadt.John Kensett, and John Singer Sargent

Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI
Excel lent American collections of eighteenth, nineteenth-, and early twentieth-century American art.

Fogg Museum of Harvard University, Quincy Street and Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Strong collections in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American painting and works on paper.

Fruitlands Museum, 102 Prospect Hill Road, Harvard, MA. A small museum with collections in Native American, Shaker and American Art (especially Hudson River School landscape paintings and 19th century vernacular portraits).

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE
Collection of American arts from the Colonial period through to the mid-nineteenth century. A research centre in the American field.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
Collection includes American paintings and sculptures from the Colonial period onwards, with an emphasis on late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century works.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street, New York, NY
A vast American art collection. The nineteenth-century col lection includes key works by George Caleb Bingham, Frederic Church, Thomas Cole, John Singer Sargent, Thomas Eakins, and Winslow Homer. Also features renowned examples of sculpture and decorative arts.

Museum of Modern Art, New York City.

Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 31 OGenesee Street, Utica, NY
Collection of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century paintings, sculptures, drawings, and decorative arts, including the Voyage of Life series by Thomas Cole.

Museum of Fine Arts, 469 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
Superlative American arts col lections, including bequests of Mr and Mrs Maxim Karolik which feature nineteenth-century paintings.

Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue,New York, NY
The collection includes landscape paintings by artists such as Asher. Durand aswell as genre paintings and a large collection of portraiture.

National Academy of Design, 12200 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
An extensive collection of nineteenth-century American painting, sculpture, and works on paper.

National Gallery of Art, Sixth Street and Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC
The collection is large and varied, and includes key American paintings.

National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
A large collection of American art which includes painting, sculpture and works on paper. The painting section features key works by nineteenth-century artists.

National Portrait Gallery, F. Street at 8th, NW, Washington, DC
The collection includes American portraits dating from the seventeenth century to the present in painting, sculpture, and miniatures.

New York State Historical Association, Farmer's Museum, and Village Crossroads, Cooperstown, NY
American collections include fine, folk, decorative, and Native American works from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia, PA
The United States' oldest art museum and school of fine arts. The collection includes outstanding examples of American painting and sculpture.

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 26th Street, Philadelphia, PA
The American collections include a significant number of works by Thomas Eakins, Pennsylvania German art, and decorative arts.

Phillips Collection, Washington D.C
Large collection of American works.

Toledo Museum of Art, Monroe Street and Scottwood Avenue, Toledo, OH
Good collection of American arts, including glass.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Boulevard and Grove Avenue, Richmond, VA
Collection includes examples from American painting, sculpture, and decorative arts.

Wadsworth Atheneum, 25 Atheneum Square, Hartford, CT
The American col lection contains paintings, sculpture, and drawings dating from 1664. Excel lent col lection of Hudson River School landscape painting and eighteenth-century portraiture; also features nineteenth-century miniatures and neoclassical sculpture.

Whitney Museum of American Art.
One of the best collections of American Art in the US, among them Edward Hopper.

William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, MO
The American collection includes good examples of nineteenth-century landscape painting and works by George Caleb Bingham, John Singer Sargent, and Winslow Homer.

Worcester Art Museum, 55 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA
The collection includes good range of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century American

Yale University Art Gallery, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT
Strong in Colonial and nineteenth-century art, with major holdings of Trumbull, Eakins, and Homer.


An American museum in France
Musée d'art américain à Giverny


For more info see also listing of museums in the USA.