Regarding America: 19th-Century Art from the Permanent Collection

An era of discovery and innovation that witnessed the rapid and seemingly boundless expansion of America’s footprint and ambition, the 19th century was also a time of conflict and upheaval, brutality and inequality. Comprising paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, and sculptures drawn from the Addison’s acclaimed collection of 19th-century American art, this exhibition offers critical insight into this transformative and contradictory century.

Regarding America presents perennial favorites by artists including Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Harriet Hosmer, George Inness, Eastman Johnson, Timothy H. O’Sullivan, Maurice Prendergast, and James McNeill Whistler alongside lesser-known works by under-recognized and unidentified artists.