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Article: American art at Princeton.(Current and coming)
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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The collections of college and university art museums are sometimes motley assortments of works of art donated by alumni to their alma mater--uneven collections with glaring gaps. One exception is the collection of American works on paper at the Princeton University Art Museum in New Jersey. Founded in 1883, the museum has long made a consistent attempt to cull excellent quality watercolors, drawings, and pastels by the leading lights of American art from earliest times to the present. Given the fact that works on paper demonstrate better than any other medium the working methods of an artist, a collection such as this deeply benefits undergraduate and graduate students ...