{"id":24775,"date":"2016-08-09T08:20:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T12:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/blog\/?p=24775"},"modified":"2019-02-28T22:19:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T03:19:48","slug":"in-connecticut-discovering-american-arts-first-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2016\/08\/in-connecticut-discovering-american-arts-first-home\/","title":{"rendered":"In Connecticut, Discovering American Art\u2019s First Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a nice article by Willard Spiegelman about America&#8217;s first museum to dedicate its collection to American Art &#8230; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbmaa.org\/\">New Britain Museum of American Art.<\/a>\u00a0 Their collection\u00a0includes more than 8270 works of art starting in the\u00a0Colonial Era\u00a0&#8230; and it is a very impressive list which includes:\u00a0John Smibert, John Trumbull, Mather Brown, John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, Sarah Peale, Gilbert Stuart ,Thomas Cole, Thomas Doughty, Asher B. Durand, Fitz Hugh Lane, Martin Johnson Heade, John Kensett, Albert Bierstadt and Frederic Church.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/in-connecticut-discovering-american-arts-first-home-1470690873\">In Connecticut, Discovering American Art\u2019s First Home<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 404px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/in-connecticut-discovering-american-arts-first-home-1470690873\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BN-PH574_newbri_G_20160808163047\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BN-PH574_newbri_G_20160808163047.jpg\" width=\"394\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Hart Benton &#8220;Arts of the South&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a nice article by Willard Spiegelman about America&#8217;s first museum to dedicate its collection to American Art &#8230; the New Britain Museum of American Art.\u00a0 Their collection\u00a0includes more than 8270 works of art starting in the\u00a0Colonial Era\u00a0&#8230; 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