American Painting and Sculpture November 6, 2008

The Speed's American collection includes paintings and sculpture produced in the United States since the 18th century. The collection features outstanding paintings by Benjamin West and James Peale, still lifes by William Mason Brown, figure paintings by Thomas Dewing and Willard Metcalf, Impressionist work by Mary Cassatt and Edward Redfield, and a collection of American Renaissance paintings and drawings by Elihu Vedder and Charles Caryl Coleman. Highlights of American sculpture include works by Hiram Powers, Franklin Simmons, Randolph Rogers, Thomas Ball, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, George Grey Barnard and Paul Manship.