Copley to Cassatt: American Painting
from The Detroit Institute of the Arts

Exhibit Dates: September 19, 2004 to September 25, 2005

Description: A year long showing of 34 selected works chronicling American painting from Colonial times to the early 20th Century. The exhibition features works by such noted artists as John Singleton Copley, James McNeil Whistler, George Inness, Winslow Homer, Robert Henri and Mary Cassat.

Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926) In the Garden c. 1903-1904 Oil on canvas Gift of Dr. Ernest G. Stillman

John Singleton Copley (American, 1738-1815) John Gray 1766 Oil on canvas Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund 43.30

Elihu Vedder (American, 1836-1923) The Cumaean Sibyl 1876 Oil on canvas Founders Society Purchase, Merrill Fund 57.235

Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819-1904) Cherokee Roses c. 1890 Oil on Canvas Founders Society Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund 57.248

Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910) The Four-Leaf Clover 1873 Oil on canvas Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill 70.150

Thomas Worthington Whittredge (American, 1820-1910) Landscape in the Harz Mountains 1854 Oil on canvas Founders Society Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund 45.468