Williams College Museum of Art

Williamstown, MA

413-597-2429

http://www.wcma.org

 

Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:

Prendergast in Italy (7/30/09)

Prendergast in Italy; Gallery guide text for the exhibition by Nancy Mowll Mathews (7/30/09)

Warhola Becomes Warhol - Andy Warhol: Early Work (2/20/07)

Charles Prendergast: Beauties...of a Quiet Kind; article by Nancy Mowll Mathews (4/3/06)

 

Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910 (4/21/05)

Mostly Photography and Signs and Signals (1/15/04)

Libby Barker Gardner: Artifacts (6/24/03)

Celebrating 75 Years-American Dreams: American Art to 1950 in the Williams College Museum of Art (6/21/01)

The Last Take-Out: Paper Works by William B. Schade (7/13/00)

 

The Art of Leisure: Maurice and Charles Prendergast in the Williams College Museum of Art (6/16/00)

Kitchen Fit: New Paintings by John Recco (5/19/00)

Carrie Mae Weems: The Hampton Project (2/22/00) - (rev. 3/31/00)

William Wegman: Drawing, Video, Painting, Photography (6/17/99) and revised 7/2/99)

American Naive Paintings from the National Gallery of Art (1997)

Maurice Prendergast: The State of the Estate (1997)

 

About the Museum

Karl Weston, the museum's founder and first director, established the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) in 1926 to provide Williams College students with the opportunity for firsthand observation of fine works of art. The museum has a national reputation as one of the finest college art museums in the country with 12,000 objects in the permanent collection. (left: original 1846 rotunda, now the Faison Gallery, sculpture: Robert Morris, Hearing, 1972, © 1986 Steve Rosenthal)

Williams College is located in the center of Williamstown, along Route 2 (Main Street), next to the junction of Routes 2 and 7 in the northwest corner of Massachusetts. We are about one hour's drive from the Massachusetts Turnpike and Interstates 91, 90, and 87. Driving time from Boston or New York City is about three hours; from Albany, NY, about one hour; and a good two hours from Bradley International Airport outside of Hartford, CT.

For hours and admission fees please see the Museum's website.(right: the atrium with WALLWORKS installation by William Ramage, 1988, photo by Nicholas Whitman)

 

Why was this sub-index page prepared?

When Resource Library publishes over time more than one article concerning an institution, there is created as an additional resource for readers a sub-index page containing links to each Resource Library article or essay concerning that institution, plus available information on its location and other descriptive information.

See our Museums Explained to learn about the "inner workings" of art museums and the functions of staff members. In the exhibitions section find out how to get the most out of a museum visit. See definitions for a glossary of museum-related words used in articles.

To help you plan visits to institutions exhibiting American art when traveling see Sources of Articles Indexed by State within the United States.

Unless otherwise noted, all text and image materials relating to the above institutional source were provided by that source. Before reproducing or transmitting text or images please read Resource Library's user agreement.

Our catalogues provide many more useful resources.

American Representational Art has links to dozens of topics.

Distinguished Artists is a national registry of historic artists.

About Resource Library

 

Resource Library is a free online publication of nonprofit Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO). Since 1997, Resource Library and its predecessor Resource Library Magazine have cumulatively published online 1,300+ articles and essays written by hundreds of identified authors, thousands of other texts not attributable to named authors, plus 24,000+ images, all providing educational and informational content related to American representational art. Texts and related images are provided almost exclusively by nonprofit art museum, gallery and art center sources.

All published materials provide educational and informational content to students, scholars, teachers and others. Most published materials relate to exhibitions. Materials may include whole exhibition gallery guides, brochures or catalogues or texts from them, perviously published magazine or journal articles, wall panels and object labels, audio tour scripts, play scripts, interviews, blogs, checklists and news releases, plus related images.

What you won't find:

User-tracking cookies are not installed on our website. Privacy of users is very important to us. You won't find annoying banners and pop-ups either. Our pages are loaded blazingly fast. Resource Library contains no advertising and is 100% non-commercial. .

(left: JP Hazeltine, founding editor, Resource Library)

Links to sources of information outside our website are provided only as referrals for your further consideration. Please use due diligence in judging the quality of information contained in these and all other websites. Information from linked sources may be inaccurate or out of date. We neither recommend or endorses these referenced organizations. Although we include links to other websites, we take no responsibility for the content or information contained on other sites, nor exert any editorial or other control over them. For more information on evaluating web pages see our General Resources section in Online Resources for Collectors and Students of Art History.

*Tag for expired US copyright of object image:

Search Resource Library

Copyright 2023 Traditional Fine Arts Organization, Inc., an Arizona nonprofit corporation. All rights reserved.