Highlights From the American Collection May 8, 2009

This selection of important paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries ranges from the Hudson River School to American Impressionism and the early Modernists. The joys of childhood celebrated in 'Swinging on the Gate' by J.G. Brown, the beautifully rustic 'Country Cabin' by Hermann Herzog, and the magnificent 'Portrait of Mrs. George Gribble' [Norah] by John Singer Sargent join works by key American artists, including Winslow Homer, Lily Martin Spencer, Edward Beyer, Childe Hassam, John H. Twachtman, William Bradford, Frederick Frieseke, Maria Oakey Dewing, Robert Riggs, Robert Henri and Maurice Predergast.