Two Hundred Years of American Paintings, 1700–1900: Inaugural Exhibition

About the exhibition

Museum of Arts and Sciences presented Two Hundred Years of American Paintings, 1700–1900: Inaugural Exhibition in 1981. The exhibition title states a two-century survey of American painting. The documented works include animal subjects, portraits and historical narratives. Exact surviving examples are John James Audubon’s Arctic Hare (c. 1841; pen and black ink and graphite with watercolor and oil paint on paper) and George Catlin’s Launching of the Griffin. July 1679 (1847/1848; oil on canvas). The surviving museum histories establish only part of the checklist; exact opening and closing days remain unverified.

Also recorded as: Two Hundred Years of American Paintings, 1700-1900, Inaugural Exhibition, The Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia