American Painting

Over 100 masterworks from 1670 to 1960, by artists as diverse as Sargent, Whistler, Cassatt, Hopper, Gorky, and Pollock. Both a brief history of...

American Decorative Arts and Sculpture

With over 100 carefully selected masterpieces of furniture, silver, glass, ceramics, coins and medals, basketry, and sculpture, this volume offers a...

Native American Art

The collection of Native American artworks is one of the hidden treasures of the MFA, with many of its finest objects seldom displayed to ensure their...

Thomas Sully
George Washington and The Passage of the Delaware

On the night of December 25, 1776, George Washington led his ragged Continental Army through a snowstorm across the Delaware River, on the way to a...

Paul Revere
Sons of Liberty Bowl

American patriot Paul Revere (1734-1818) is wrapped in the swirling mixture of myth and poetry through which history often descends, but as a...

Childe Hassam
At Dusk: Boston Common at Twilight

This vivid account of Childe Hassam’s 1880s cityscape chronicles one of Boston’s best-loved paintings. The rosy rusty tones, cozy trio, and quiet...

Sargent's Daughters
The Biography of a Painting

Henry James credited Sargent with a "knock-down insolence of talent" and few of his works demonstrate those skills as much as The Daughters of Edward...

John Singer Sargent Murals in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Born in Italy to American parents, trained in Paris, and a resident of London, Sargent became Boston’s favorite painter in the 1880s. Acclaimed on...

Common Wealth
Art by African Americans in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The story of African Americans in the visual arts has closely paralleled their social, political, and economic aspirations over the last four hundred...

A New World Imagined
Art of the Americas

Starting with the vast geography and cultural diversity of North and South America, A New World Imagined introduces the ways in which American art...