Artists in America at Nassau Museum

Nassau County Museum of Art

Artists in America: Copley • Peale • Whistler • Sargent
Hopper • O’Keeffe • Rockwell • Wyeth

Artists in America surveys 300 years of great American paintings rarely seen on Long Island. Its 79 works dating from the early 1700s to the present examples of photography, collage and other media. Major artists from every era of American art are on view, including John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, John Singer Sargent, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Robert Motherwell and Sol LeWitt.  All works in the exhibition are selected from the permanent collections of the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut.