Metropolitan Museum of Art – American Art, New York, USA

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, colloquially “the Met”, is the largest art museum in the Americas and the most-visited museum in the United States.  This blog shows the American Art collections.

Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1000 5th Ave, New York, New York, USA

Ever since its establishment in 1870, the Museum has acquired important examples of American art. A separate “American Wing” to display the domestic arts of the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries opened in 1924; painting and sculpture galleries and a skylit courtyard were added in 1980.