Addison Gallery of American Art
Phillips Academy
Andover, MA 01810-4166
Andover, MA 01810-4166
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Museums page for Benjamin West ((1738 - 1820)), known for History, allegorical, religious and portrait paintings. Showing 79 museum collections and exhibitions.
Benjamin West MUSEUMS
1738 Springfield, Pennsylvania - 1820 London, England. Known for: History, allegorical, religious and portrait paintings.
America's most famous successful expatriate painter and described as the "father of American painting" (Zellman, 55) Benjamin West became the first American artist to gain international fame. He was... Read full biography
America's most famous successful expatriate painter and described as the "father of American painting" (Zellman, 55) Benjamin West became the first American artist to gain international fame. He was known for his large-scale and realistic historical genre paintings. West was born near Springfield,... Read full biography
America's most famous successful expatriate painter and described as the "father of American painting" (Zellman, 55) Benjamin West became the first American artist to gain international fame. He was known for his large-scale and realistic historical genre paintings. West was born near Springfield, Pennsylvania, near the future location of Swathmore College. Supposedly, he first learned pigment making from local Indians. William Williams, an English portrait painter living in Philadelphia, was... Read full biography
America's most famous successful expatriate painter and described as the "father of American painting" (Zellman, 55) Benjamin West became the first American artist to gain international fame. He was known for his large-scale and realistic historical genre paintings. West was born near Springfield, Pennsylvania, near the future location of Swathmore College. Supposedly, he first learned pigment making from local Indians. William Williams, an English portrait painter living in Philadelphia, was probably his first teacher. West's father was an innkeeper, and as a youngster, West began sketching many of the people who passed through his home. As a teenager, he was painting portraits in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and by age 20, had finished his... Read full biography
America's most famous successful expatriate painter and described as the "father of American painting" (Zellman, 55) Benjamin West became the first American artist to gain international fame. He was known for his large-scale and realistic historical genre paintings. West was born near Springfield, Pennsylvania, near the future location of Swathmore College. Supposedly, he first learned pigment making from local Indians. William Williams, an English portrait painter living in Philadelphia, was probably his first teacher. West's father was an innkeeper, and as a youngster, West began sketching many of the people who passed through his home. As a teenager, he was painting portraits in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and by age 20, had finished his first history painting, The Death of Socrates. Sensing his exceptional talent, a group of local per... Read full biography
Benjamin West - Artist Info
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Museums & Collections (79)
All MuseumsAllen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
Oberlin College
87 North Main Street
Oberlin, OH 44074Art Institute of Chicago, AIC
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60603-6110Butler Institute of American Art
524 Wick Avenue
Youngstown, OH 44502Cantor Arts Center, Stanford
Lomita Drive/Museum Way
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA 94305Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080Chrysler Museum of Art
245 West Olney Road
Norfolk, VA 23510Cincinnati Art Museum
953 Eden Park Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45202Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
480 East Broad Street
Columbus, OH 43215-3886Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens
829 Riverside Avenue
Jacksonville, FL 32204Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood Street
Dallas, TX 75201Delaware Art Museum
2301 Kentmere Parkway
Wilmington, DE 19806Denver Art Museum
100 West 14th Avenue Parkway
Denver, CO 80204Everson Museum Of Art
401 Harrison Street
Community Plaza
Syracuse, NY 13202Fenimore Art Museum
5798 State Highway 80
Po Box 800
Cooperstown, NY 13326Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, FAMSF
50 Hagiwara
Tea Garden Drive-Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA 94118Flint Institute of Arts
1120 East Kearsley Street
Flint, MI 48503Fogg Art Museum: Harvard University Art Museums
Harvard University
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138George Walter Vincent Smith Museum
21 Edwards Street
Springfield, MA 01103Gibbes Museum of Art
135 Meeting Street
Charleston, SC 29401Helmerich Cntr. for American Research, Gilcrease Museum,Univ. of Tulsa
1400 N. Gilcrease Museum Road
Tulsa, OK 74127-2100Hermitage Museum
Fondation de L'Hermitage
Lausanne, SwitzerlandHigh Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30309J. Paul Getty Museum
The Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1681La Salle University Art Museum
1900 West Olney Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19141Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
5th Avenue At 7th Street
PO Box 1108
Laurel, MS 39441Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
Amherst College
Po Box 5000
Amherst, MA 01002Memorial Art Gallery
University of Rochester
500 University Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607-1415Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10028Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
Sam Fox Arts Center/Washington University
One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1214
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404Montclair Art Museum
3 South Mountain Avenue
Montclair, NJ 07042-1747Museum of Art at Brigham Young University
North Campus Drive
Box 23300
Provo, UT 84602-1400Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1001 Bissonnet
Po Box 6826
Houston, TX 77005National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
750 Ninth Street NW, Suite 410
Washington, DC 20001New York Graphic Society
129 Glover St.
Norwalk, CT 06850New-York Historical Society
2 West 77th Street At Central Park
New York City, NY 10024Newfields
4000 Michigan Road
Indianapolis, IN 46208-4196North Carolina Museum of Art
2110 Blue Ridge Road
Mail To 4630 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-4630Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives
Po Box 7646
Philadelphia, PA 19101Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame
100 St. André Way
Notre Dame, IN 46556Reading Public Museum
500 Museum Road
Reading, PA 19611-1425Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1130 State Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101-2476Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Edinburgh, United KingdomSheldon Museum of Art
12th &Amp; R Streets
Lincoln, NE 68588-0300Smith College Museum of Art
20 Elm Street at Bedford Terrace
Northampton, MA 01063Spencer Museum of Art
University of Kansas
1301 Mississippi Street
Lawrence, KS 66045-7500Tate Britain
Millbank
London, United KingdomThe Arkell Museum at Canajoharie
2 Erie Boulevard
Canajoharie, NY 13317The Art Museum, Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1018The Baltimore Museum of Art
10 Art Museum Drive
Baltimore, MD 21218The Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052The Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106-1797The Columbus Museum (COMU)
1251 Wynnton Road
Columbus, GA 31906The Dayton Art Institute
456 Belmonte Park North
Dayton, OH 45405The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art
5401 Bay Shore Road
Sarasota, FL 34243The Library Company of Philadelphia
1314 Locust St.
Philadelphia, PA 19107-5698The Morgan Library & Museum
29 East 36th Street
New York City, NY 10016The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111-1873The Newark Museum of Art
49 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102The Parthenon
Centennial Park
Po Box 196340
Nashville, TN 37219-6340The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102The Philbrook Museum of Art
2727 South Rockford Road
P.O. Box 52510
Tulsa, OK 74152-0510The Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College
628 College Ave
Lancaster, PA 17604-3003The Speed Art Museum
2035 South 3rd Street
Louisville, KY 40208The Toledo Museum of Art
2445 Monroe Street
Box 1013
Toledo, OH 43697The Walters Art Museum
600 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201-5185Timken Museum of Art
1500 El. Prado
Balboa Park
San Diego, CA 92101University of Michigan Museum of Art, UMMA
525 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1354Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
600 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06103-2990Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
401 Museum Drive
Hagerstown, MD 21741-0423Williams College Museum of Art
15 Lawrence Hall Drive
Williamstown, MA 01267Winterthur Museum, Garden,& Library
Route 52 Kennett Pike
Winterthur, DE 19735Worcester Art Museum
55 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA 01609-3196Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
Box 208271
New Haven, CT 06520-8271