FLINT, MICHIGAN.- The Flint Institute of Arts presents “All American: Paintings and Sculptures from the Collection of the Flint Institute of Arts,” on view through February 1, 2004. In honor of the 75th anniversary of the Flint Institute of Arts, the permanent collection galleries will be reinstalled with over 100 paintings and sculptures by American artists from the late 18th century to the present day. These works of art have been selected for this special presentation not only for their artistic quality, but also to display the exceptional breadth and depth of the FIA’s collection of American art.
In only 75 years, the museum has amassed an extraordinary group of American works of art, one that enables the viewer to survey the history of the country’s artistic achievement and to enjoy a number of individual masterworks worthy of any collection, private or public, in the United States. Important artists represented include: Benjamin West, Gilbert Stuart, William Michael Harnett, Thomas Doughty, Jasper Cropsey, Martin Johnson Heade, John George Brown, Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, William Harper, Maurice Prendergast, Robert Henri, Charles Burchfield, Childe Hassam, Robert Motherwell, Adolph Gottlieb, Lee Krasner, Paul Jenkins, Morris Louis, Helen Frankenthaler, Josef Albers, Andrew Wyeth, Wayne Thiebaud, Philip Pearlstein, Jacob Lawerence, Romare Bearden, Alexander Calder, Claes Oldenburg, and Duane Hanson.
The FIA is pleased to be able to share this remarkably rich collection that spans the period from the years of the newly founded republic to the contemporary works that attest to the diversity of the country two centuries later.