Westmoreland Museum of American Art
 Main entrance on Park Street before remodelling | |
| Established | 1959 |
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| Location | Greensburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 40°18′22″N 79°32′41″W / 40.3060°N 79.5448°W |
| Type | Art museum |
| Director | Judith Hansen O'Toole[1] |
| Curator | Barbara L. Jones[1] |
| Website | thewestmoreland.org |
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art is an art museum in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, devoted to American art, with a particular concentration on the art of southwestern Pennsylvania.[2]
Art lover Mary Marchand Woods bequeathed her entire estate to establish The Woods Marchand Foundation in 1949. The museum developed from this foundation, opening ten years later.[3]
William H. Gerdts wrote that
... in western Pennsylvania the Westmoreland Museum of Art in Greensburg, rather than the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, has pioneered regional investigations.[4]
Selected artists represented in the permanent collection
References
- 1 2 "Westmoreland Museum staff". Retrieved May 25, 2010.
- ↑ Fahlman, Betsy (2006). "Current Research on the Art of Industry Artists at Work: Imaging Place, Work, and Process". IA, The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology (Society for Industrial Archeology) 32 (2): 55–56. JSTOR 40968738.
- ↑ "Westmoreland Museum history". Retrieved May 25, 2010.
- ↑ Gerdts, William H. (1990). Art Across America: Two Centuries of Regional Painting, 1710-1920 One. New York, NY: Abbeville Press. p. 13. ISBN 1-55859-033-1.
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