American Painting

Over 100 masterworks from 1670 to 1960, by artists as diverse as Copley, Lane, Sargent, Cassatt, Hopper, O’Keeffe, Lawrence, and Pollock. Both a brief...

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...

Arts of the Ancient Americas

The ancient cultures of the Americas comprise a vast array of societies, whose peoples spoke thousands of languages and dialects, developed...

John Singer Sargent Watercolors

Sargent’s approach to watercolor was unconventional. Disregarding contemporary aesthetic standards that called for carefully delineated and composed...

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...

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...

Chihuly
Through the Looking Glass

Arguably the most famous glass artist since Louis Comfort Tiffany, Dale Chihuly has been credited with elevating blown glass from delicate decorative...

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...