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The American watercolor and drawing collection is particularly strong, with major works by such figures as John Singleton Copley, John James Audubon, Mary Cassatt, James McNeill Whistler, Maurice Prendergast, John Sloan, George Bellows, Marguerite Zorach, and Andrew Wyeth. For more on this collection, see the museum's fully illustrated 2005 publication Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art.
Visit the Web page of the exhibition:
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art
Some highlights with entries from the Hood collection catalogue American Art at Dartmouth:
John James Audubon, American Buzzard or White Breasted Hawk . . . Falco Leverianus, about 1810-20
George Wesley Bellows, The Boardwalk (The Merry-Go-Round), about 1915
Mary Cassatt, Drawing for "Evening", 1879-80
John William Hill, High Bridge, about 1848
Jackson Pollock, Untitled (Number 37), about 1939-40
William Trost Richards, Beach Scene, about 1870
John Singleton Copley, Governor John Wentworth, 1769
John Sloan, Ludlow, Colorado (Class War in Colorado), 1914
Joseph Stella, Dying Lotus, about 1930-32
Bill Traylor, House with Figures and Animals, 1939
Benjamin West, Archangel Gabriel of the Annunciation, 1784
James McNeill Whistler, Maud Reading in Bed, 1883-84
