Hunter Museum of American Art
Painting, sculpture, photography, craft, and new media span colonial portraiture to contemporary work while an 1905 mansion, 1970s structure, and modern wing frame changing ideas of display.
Artwork inspired by Beauford Delaney
The collection becomes especially useful when architecture and art disagree. A landscape viewed from the Tennessee River bluff, a portrait inside the mansion, and an installation in the modern wing each stage a different relationship between nation, patronage, and place.
Do not follow chronology mechanically. Compare a room in each building, then return to one Tennessee or Southern artist in depth. The outdoor river view is part of the experience, but gallery admission and the bluff overlook should not be confused.
- 1905 mansion
- Historic domestic architecture
- American modernism galleries
- American art across movements
- Tennessee River overlook
- Bluff-top river panorama
Quick guide
- First move
- At Hunter Museum of American Art, begin with 1905 mansion: Painting, sculpture, photography, craft, and new media span colonial portraiture to contemporary work while an 1905 mansion, 1970s structure, and modern wing frame changing ideas of display.
- Second look
- American modernism galleries: The collection becomes especially useful when architecture and art disagree.
Build the visit around three specific anchors
- Start with
- 1905 mansion: Painting, sculpture, photography, craft, and new media span colonial portraiture to contemporary work while an 1905 mansion, 1970s structure, and modern wing frame changing ideas of…
- Look closely at
- American modernism galleries: The collection becomes especially useful when architecture and art disagree.
- Connect the story
- Tennessee River overlook: American art across three radically different buildings.
- Plan around
- Do not follow chronology mechanically. Compare a room in each building, then return to one Tennessee or Southern artist in depth.
Good to know
Hunter Museum of American Art: the outdoor river view is part of the experience, but gallery admission and the bluff overlook should not be confused.
Notice these
- 1905 mansion
- American modernism galleries
- Tennessee River overlook