…following quote taken from the Memphis Brooks Museum Of Art website. “The painting collection consists of more than 600 works that survey the development of Western European and American art, from the early Renaissance to the present. The Samuel H. Kress Collection of Italian Renaissance and Baroque works forms the core of the museum’s European paintings while other strengths in this area include Dutch genre, British portraiture, and French Impressionist works. Among the European artists represented are Francesco Botticini, Canaletto, Thomas Gainsborough, and Camille Pissarro. The 19th-century American collection spans from portraits by Ralph E. W. Earl and landscapes by George Inness, to genre paintings by Winslow Homer. Among the early 20th-century works are paintings by Thomas Hart Benton, Robert Henri…”

For more information on this exhibition and others, visit the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art website link above.