Worcester Art Museum

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Worcester Art Museum (WAM) opened on May 10, 1898 in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was founded by Stephen Salisbury III, a Massachusetts State Senator and wealthy Worcester landowner. Together with a large donation from Salisbury's estate and bequests, the Museum acquired its first important acquisitions. In 1901, John Chandler Bancroft, a wealthy Bostonian, bequeathed more than 3,000 Japanese prints. The Bancroft collection spans the history of woodcut printmaking in Japan, with particular strength in rare, early images from the late 17th and 18th centuries. Salisbury's estate donation included many portraits commissioned by his family, as well as sculpture, furniture, and silver. These works, by artists such as Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Crawford, and Samuel F.B. Morse and the craftsmen Paul Revere, Edward Winslow, and Nathanial Hurd, constituted the nucleus of the American collections. The Museum's first professional director, Philip J. Gentner arrived in 1908. Louisa Dresser Campbell, one of Worcester Art Museum's most notable curators of collections was known for her acquisition of the Freake paintings, some of the museum's most famous American works.


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