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| Established | 1931 |
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| Location | Andover, Massachusetts |
| Type | Academic museum |
| Collections | American art |
| Website | addison |
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TheAddison Gallery of American Art is an academic museum dedicated to collecting American art, organized as a department ofPhillips Academy inAndover, Massachusetts.
Directors of the gallery include Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr. (1940–1969),[1][2] Christopher C. Cook (1969–1989),Jock Reynolds (1989–1998),[3]Adam D. Weinberg (1999–2003),Brian T. Allen (2004–2013), Judith F. Dolkart (2014–2019), and Allison N. Kemmerer (2021-).
In the spring of 2006, the Phillips Academy Board of Trustees approved a $30 million campaign to renovate and expand the Addison Gallery.[4] Construction on the Addison began in the middle of 2008 and was completed in 2010.[5] The project was designed byCenterbrook Architects & Planners.[6]
The Addison Gallery of American Art's founding collection included major works by such prominent American artists asJohn Singleton Copley,Thomas Eakins,Winslow Homer,Maurice Prendergast,John Singer Sargent,John Twachtman, andJames McNeill Whistler. Purchasing and generous gifts have added works by such artists asGeorge Bellows,Alexander Calder,Stuart Davis,Arthur Dove,Marsden Hartley,Hans Hofmann,Edward Hopper,Knox Martin,Georgia O'Keeffe,Jackson Pollock,Frederic Remington,Charles Sheeler,Frank Stella,John Sloan,Benjamin West andAndrew Wyeth. It also has paintings byJohn Kensett,Frederic Church,George Inness,Dwight Tryon, Ralph Blakelock,John Singer Sargent,Josef Albers,Mary Cassatt, andPhillip Guston.
The Addison's collection of 7,500 photographs spans the history of American photography and includes in-depth holdings of key individual artists, such asLewis Baltz,Walker Evans,Robert Frank,Eadweard Muybridge,Carleton Watkins,Margaret Bourke-White, andAnsel Adams. In recent years, the Gallery has acquired significant contemporary works byEmery Bopp,Carroll Dunham,Kerry James Marshall,Joel Shapiro, andLorna Simpson.
As of 2022[update], the collection comprises over 22,000 works in all media, including painting, sculpture, photography, drawings, prints, and decorative arts from the eighteenth century to the present.[7] It also has a collection of models of American ships, including theHalf Moon,Mayflower, and the yachtWanderer.[8]
The Gallery presents a combination of twelve temporary exhibitions and permanent collection installations per year.[9] Recent examples include:
American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky,De Kooning and Their Circle (2012)
An American in London: Whistler and the Thames (2014)
Laurie Simmons: in and Around the House (2016)
Mark Tobey: Threading Light (2017)
Mel Kendrick: Seeing Things in Things (2021)
Rosamond Purcell: Nature Stands Aside (2022)
Alison Elizabeth Taylor: The Sum of It (2023)
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| Sol Lewitt[10] | 1993 |
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