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. Created by alumnus and benefactor Thomas Cochran in 1931 to mark the school's 150th anniversary, the gallery's name honors Cochran's late friend, Keturah Addison Cobb. The building was designed by architect Charles A. Platt. Construction on the current facility began in 2008 and was completed in 2010.
Cochran started the collection with a donation of 50 paintings. Since then, purchasing and generous gifts have added works by prominent artists including John Singleton Copley, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, John Twachtman, and James McNeill Whistler. The collection now comprises over 29,000 works in all media, including paintings, sculptures, photography, drawings, prints, and decorative arts from the eighteenth century to the present.
The Gallery presents a combination of twelve temporary exhibitions and permanent collection installations per year. 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), and Alison Elizabeth Taylor: The Sum of It (2023).
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