Join curators Sylvia Yount, Medill Higgins Harvey, Adrienne Spinozzi, Amelia Peck, Alyce Perry Englund, Stephanie L. Herdrich, Thayer Tolles, Patricia Marroquin Norby, and Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, along with Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director and CEO, as the American Wing celebrates its 100th anniversary with a reinstallation of its extensive collection of art and design. Newly interpreted galleries on three floors reveal connections across the Wing’s increasingly hemispheric holdings—from the mid-17th to mid-20th century with some contemporary expressions—and foreground meaningful and relevant storylines.
Learn more about the new galleries at https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/the-american-wing-at-100
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Featured Objects
Martin Euclid Thompson (American, 1786–1877 Glen Cove, New York).
Facade of the Second Branch Bank of the United States, 1822–24. Marble.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Robert W. de Forest,
1924.
Paul Revere Jr. (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1734–1818 Boston, Massachusetts). Teapot 1796. Silver.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933 (33.120.543).
Dave (later recorded as David Drake), Storage Jar, Stony Bluff Manufactory
American, 1858.
Alkaline-glazed stoneware.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Ronald S. Kane, bequest in memory of Berry B. Tracy 2020 (2020.7).
Richmond Room, Richmond, Virginia, 1810-11, Gift of Joe Kindig Jr., 1968 (68.137).
Thomas Affleck (American). Side Chair, 1770-75.
Mahogany, yellow poplar, yellow pine.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Anonymous Gift, in memory of Elizabeth Snow Bryce, 1983 (1983.395).
Side Chair, (American) 1765-75
Mahogany, yellow pine.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty and Rogers Fund, by exchange, 1951 (51.140).
Gilbert Stuart (American, North Kingston, Rhode Island 1755–1828
Boston, Massachusetts). George Washington (begun 1795).
Oil on canvas.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Rogers Fund, 1907 (07.160).
John Heaton (active 1730–1745). Child of the Van Rensselaer Family with Servant (1730).
Oil on canvas.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Gift of Sascha M. Rockefeller, in memory of Rodman C. Rockefeller,
2024 (2024.396).
John Singer Sargent (American, Florence 1856–1925 London). Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau) (1883–84).
Oil on canvas.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1916 (16.53).
Elizabeth Colomba (French, born Épinay-sur-Seine, 1976). Armelle (1997).
Oil on canvas.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Gift of Helene Winer, 2023 (2023.282).
Winslow Homer (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836–1910 Prouts Neck, Maine). The Gulf Stream (1899; reworked by 1906).
Oil on canvas.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1906 (06.1234).
Jules Tavernier (American). Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at
Clear Lake, 1878.
Oil on canvas.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Marguerite and Frank A. Cosgrove Jr. Fund, 2016 (2016.135).
Edith Mitchill Prellwitz. The Elevated, American, 1888-89.
Oil on canvas.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Gift of Henry and Wendy Prellwitz, 2020 (2020.30.1).
Anishinaabe artist, Ojibwe, Ottawa, or Cree Belt Cup, ca. 1820.
Carved wood and metal nails.
On loan from the Charles and Valerie Diker Collection.
Agnes F. Northrop, Tiffany Studios, Garden landscape window for
Linden Hall, 1912.
Leaded Favrile glass.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Purchase, Alan Gerry Gift; 2023 Benefit Fund; Louis V. Bell, Harris
Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer
Bequest; funds and gifts from various donors, by exchange; Ronald S.
Kane Bequest, in memory of Berry B. Tracy; Lila Acheson Wallace,
several members of The Chairman's Council, The Erving and Joyce
Wolf Foundation, Martha J. Fleischman, Elizabeth J. and Paul De Rosa,
Women and the Critical Eye, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lockwood Chilton Jr., Cheryl and Blair Effron, The Felicia Fund, Julie and James Alexandre,
Elizabeth and Richard Miller, Anonymous,
John and Margaret Ruttenberg, and The Derald H.
Ruttenberg Foundation Gifts, 2023 (2023.319a).