The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has a superb collection. The museum's founding benefactors were Sterling and Francine Clark. He was an heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune.
Edgar Degas' Little Dancer Aged Fourteen is special. It deserves and was given its own room.
Mary Cassatt did numerous portraits of this little girl. Apparently they sold well.
A 14th century polyptych (i.e., a multi-panel painting) shows the Virgin and Child and six saints by the Sienese artist Ugolino di Nerio.
The museum shows several exceptional portraits by John Singer Sargent. This one is a painting of his teacher, mentor and friend Carolus-Duran. The face is very realistic. I thought he was looking at me.
The noted French impressionist artist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painted this beautiful landscape, the Doge's Palace in Venice, in 1881.
The American artist, Frederic Remington, made his name with paintings and sculptures of cowboys and horses from the American West, but he was an Easterner who lived not far from my summer home in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
There is Edgar Degas' Little Dancer at the Joslyn Museum in Omaha, NE also. The Clark Art Institute has a fine collection.
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