{{multiple issues| {{independent sources|date=February 2022}} {{more citations needed|date = January 2016}} }} {{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox museum | name = Addison Gallery of American Art | native_name = | native_name_lang = | logo = Addison Gallery of American Art logo.svg | logo_upright = | logo_alt = | logo_caption = | image = Phillips Academy, Andover, MA - Addison Gallery of American Art.JPG | image_upright = | alt = | caption = This view of the neoclassical entry to the Addison Gallery does not reveal the modernist sections of the building | map_type = | map_relief = | map_size = | map_caption = | coordinates = <!-- {{Coord}} --> | former_name = | established = 1931 | dissolved = <!-- {{End date|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}} --> | location = Andover, Massachusetts | type = Academic museum | accreditation = | key_holdings = | collections = American art | collection_size = | visitors = | founder = | director = | president = | ceo = | chairperson = | curator = | architect = | historian = | owner = | public_transit = | parking = | network = | website = {{URL|addison.andover.edu}} | embedded = }} {{coord|42|38|55|N|71|8|0|W|type:landmark_region:US|display=title}} [[File:Venus Anadyomene by Paul Manship, 1927, marble - Addison Gallery of American Art - Phillips Academy Andover - Andover, Massachusetts - DSC05248.jpg|thumb|upright|''Venus Anadyomene'' (1927) by Paul Manship greets visitors at the entry to the museum]] The '''Addison Gallery of American Art''' is an academic museum dedicated to collecting American art, organized as a department of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
== History == Directors of the gallery include Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr. (1940–1969),<ref>{{citation |work=New York Times |date=February 16, 1988 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/16/obituaries/bartlett-h-hayes-jr-an-educator-and-art-historian-is-dead-at-83.html |title=Bartlett H. Hayes Jr., an Educator And Art Historian, Is Dead at 83 }}</ref><ref>{{citation |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/bartlett-h-hayes-papers-7227 |title= Bartlett H. Hayes papers, 1936-1975 |publisher= Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art |access-date=August 9, 2016 }}</ref> Christopher C. Cook (1969–1989), Jock Reynolds (1989–1998),<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jock Reynolds|url=https://www.art.yale.edu/jock-reynolds|url-status=live|access-date=June 13, 2021|website=Yale School of Art|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613223636/https://www.art.yale.edu/jock-reynolds |archive-date=2021-06-13 }}</ref> Adam D. Weinberg (1999–2003), Brian T. Allen (2004–2013), Judith F. Dolkart (2014–2019), and Allison N. Kemmerer (2021-).
In the spring of 2006, the Phillips Academy Board of Trustees approved a $30 million campaign to renovate and expand the Addison Gallery.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.andover.edu/addison/BldgProject/BldgProject_Home.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080727025357/http://www.andover.edu/addison/BldgProject/BldgProject_Home.htm|url-status=dead|title=Addison Campaign Home|archive-date=July 27, 2008}}</ref> Construction on the Addison began in the middle of 2008 and was completed in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.addisongallery.org/VisitUs/VisitUs_Main.htm |title=Addison - Visit Us |access-date=2010-01-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100525100922/http://www.addisongallery.org/VisitUs/VisitUs_Main.htm |archive-date=2010-05-25 }}</ref> The project was designed by Centerbrook Architects & Planners.<ref>[http://digital.designnewengland.com/designnewengland/20101112?pg=47#pg47 Design New England]</ref>
== Collection == [[File:WinslowHomer-Eight Bells 1886.jpg|thumb|Winslow Homer's ''Eight Bells,'' part of the Addison Gallery's permanent collection]] The Addison Gallery of American Art's founding collection included major works by such prominent American artists as John Singleton Copley, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, John Twachtman, and James McNeill Whistler. Purchasing and generous gifts have added works by such artists as George Bellows, Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, Hans Hofmann, Edward Hopper, Knox Martin, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Frederic Remington, Charles Sheeler, Frank Stella, John Sloan, Benjamin West and Andrew Wyeth. It also has paintings by John Kensett, Frederic Church, George Inness, Dwight Tryon, Ralph Blakelock, John Singer Sargent, Josef Albers, Mary Cassatt, and Phillip Guston.
The Addison's collection of 7,500 photographs spans the history of American photography and includes in-depth holdings of key individual artists, such as Lewis Baltz, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Eadweard Muybridge, Carleton Watkins, Margaret Bourke-White, and Ansel Adams. In recent years, the Gallery has acquired significant contemporary works by Emery Bopp, Carroll Dunham, Kerry James Marshall, Joel Shapiro, and Lorna Simpson.
{{As of|2022}}, the collection comprises over 22,000 works in all media, including painting, sculpture, photography, drawings, prints, and decorative arts from the eighteenth century to the present.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About the Collection|url=https://addison.andover.edu/Collection/Pages/AboutCollection.aspx|url-status=live|access-date=June 13, 2021|website=Addison Gallery of American Art|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116073749/http://addison.andover.edu:80/Collection/Pages/AboutCollection.aspx |archive-date=2018-01-16 }}</ref> It also has a collection of models of American ships, including the ''Half Moon'', ''Mayflower'', and the yacht ''Wanderer''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Phillips Academy Ship Models|url=https://addison.andover.edu/Exhibitions/Pages/ShipModels.aspx|url-status=live|access-date=June 13, 2021|website=Addison Gallery of American Art|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180508210712/http://addison.andover.edu:80/Exhibitions/Pages/ShipModels.aspx |archive-date=2018-05-08 }}</ref>
== Exhibitions == The Gallery presents a combination of twelve temporary exhibitions and permanent collection installations per year.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Phillips Academy Exhibition History|url=https://addison.andover.edu/Exhibitions/Pages/PastExhibitionsGeneral.aspx |url-status=live |access-date=June 13, 2021 |website=Addison Gallery of American Art|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116112932/http://addison.andover.edu:80/Exhibitions/Pages/PastExhibitionsGeneral.aspx |archive-date=2018-01-16 }}</ref> Recent examples include: * ''American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, De Kooning and Their Circle'' (2012) * ''An American in London: Whistler and the Thames'' (2014) * ''Laurie Simmons: in and Around the House'' (2016) * ''Mark Tobey: Threading Light'' (2017) * ''Mel Kendrick: Seeing Things in Things'' (2021) * ''Rosamond Purcell: Nature Stands Aside'' (2022) * ''Alison Elizabeth Taylor: The Sum of It'' (2023)
{{hidden begin |title = List of exhibits |titlestyle = background:#a0db8e;width:80% }} {|class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Artist/Theme ! Year |- | Sol Lewitt <ref>{{citation |work=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/23/arts/art-view-an-in-depth-look-at-some-writing-on-the-wall.html |date=May 23, 1993 |title= An In-Depth Look at Some Writing on the Wall |author=Roberta Smith}}</ref> | 1993 |- |} {{hidden end}}
==Gallery== <gallery> File:Manzanar portrait Toyo Miyatake 00100u.jpg File:WinslowHomer-West Wind 1891.jpg </gallery>
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==Further reading== * {{cite book|author=Council on Museums and Education in the Visual Arts |editor1=Barbara Y. Newsom |editor2= Adele Z. Silver|title=The Art Museum as Educator: A Collection of Studies as Guides to Practice and Policy |year=1978|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-03249-1 |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=wtSqzuYMXPQC&pg=PA171 |chapter=Addison Gallery of American Art: Video for Special Audiences |pages= 170–177 }}
==External links== {{commons category}} *[http://addison.andover.edu/ Addison Gallery of American Art] official site * {{citation |url= http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/addison-gallery-american-art-sound-recordings-10833 |title= Addison Gallery of American Art sound recordings, 1970–1991 |publisher= Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art }}
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