Addison Gallery-American Art
180 Main St
AndoverMA01810
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Phillips Academy museum hosts an impressive permanent collection of American art.:
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The mainstays of the collection begin around 1850, with a Whistler, several luminous landscapes by Eastman Johnson and a grand Thomas Eakins. The Winslow Homer collection is so...
The mainstays of the collection begin around 1850, with a Whistler, several luminous landscapes by Eastman Johnson and a grand Thomas Eakins. The Winslow Homer collection is so...
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Addison Gallery of American Art was donated to the Phillips academy by Thomas Cochran. This art museum is known to exhibit the works of famous artists like Winslow Homer, George Bellows, Frank Stella and many others. In addition to this, it showcases works of their students and other artists.
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The Addison Gallery of American Art, on the campus of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, opened its doors to the public in May 1931, at a time when the idea of a museum devoted exclusively to American art was an innovation. Even more remarkable was, and is, its association not with a city or university but with a secondary school. Intended by its founder, Thomas Cochran, "to enrich...
