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Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s

Traveling September 9, 2006-March 8, 2009 to Five Venues

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Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s is drawn exclusively from the collection of the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. Comprised of some seventy iconic paintings and sculptures, the exhibition covers 100 crucial years of American art history during which United States visual artists hit their stride on the global scene.

Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s was organized by the Addison Gallery and the American Federation of Arts. Its traveling schedule is as follows:

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Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; used with permissionStudy of a Wood Interior, ca. 1855Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; used with permissionBrown and Silver: Old Battersea Bridge, 1859-63Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; used with permissionThe Coming Storm, ca. 1879Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; used with permissionStill Life with Letter to Mr. Clarke, 1879
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; used with permissionEight Bells, 1886Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; used with permissionThe West Wind, 1891Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; used with permissionValley of the Seine, 1892Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; used with permissionHemlock Pool, ca. 1900
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; used with permissionVal d'Aosta: A Man Fishing, ca. 1906Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; used with permissionMoonlight, Wolf, ca. 1909Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; used with permissionSunday, Women Drying Their Hair, 1912Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; used with permissionThe Circus, 1912
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