Amherst College · Since 1949 · A university museum with a global reach

The Mead Art Museum brings together American and European paintings, Asian art, African objects, antiques and modern works at Amherst College in a collection designed for teaching and research.

The Mead Art Museum is the art museum of Amherst College, Massachusetts. Its building opened in 1949 to house and make accessible the college's artistic collections, then enriched by significant art donations american. From the outset, it included the Rotherwas Room, an English room from the beginning of the 17th century dismantled and then installed in Amherst, which gave the museum a unique architectural dimension. The collection now exceeds eighteen a thousand objects and crosses many regions: American and European painting, Japanese prints, African arts, Mexican objects, modern Russian art, Tibetan scrolls and Middle Eastern antiquities. Its academic function does the museum is a laboratory for courses, research, exhibitions and critical revision of historical stories. The three paintings available in this selection give a deliberately contrasting overview. Morning on the Seine de Monet explores an almost immaterial morning light. Bouguereau's interrupted work shows the academic precision applied to a delicately narrative seduction scene. Toulouse-Lautrec represents his father on horseback in a image where family observation, movement and social status meet. Together, these works take the impressionist atmosphere to academic finish and then to modern equestrian portraiture. The "Mead Art Museum" selection " notably compares Matinée sur la Seine - Claude Monet and Le Travail interrupted - Bouguereau. His reading favors light.

At the Mead Art Museum, the collection is never just exhibited: it is used to teach, question legacies and multiply the relationships between works and disciplines.