Treasures of American Art: The Cynthia & Heywood Fralin Collection

Complementing and expanding upon many significant American works in the Museum’s permanent collection on view within the Fralin Center for American Art, Treasures of American Art shares more than 90 works from the private collection of Cynthia and Heywood Fralin.

The exhibition is organized around six central themes:

• The Portrait: Celebrity and Intimacy
• The Countryside: Rural and Outskirts
• The Frontier: Westward and Regionalism
• The Coast: Beaches and Harbors
• The City: Streets and Parks
• The Interior: Labor and Leisure

Landscapes, portraits, and still life paintings by such illustrious American artists as Thomas Hart Benton, Mary Cassatt, Robert Henri, Winslow Homer, Georgia O’Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, and John Singer Sargent, among many others, will be on view.