American Museum Of Natural: The Taft Museum on Pike Street, previously the home of President Taft's brother Charles Phelps Taft, is a fine example of Federal American museum of Natural architecture, in which paintings and art objects are displayed. The Cincinnati Art Museum in the Eden Park district houses a wide range of collections of famous works of art. Since 1869 it has operated an art academy. Nearby, the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History offers a planetarium, a wilderness trail, and a reproduction of a cavern.
The Whitney Museum of American museum of Natural Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City organize local and national competitions in water colors. The International Water Color Exhibition Biennials are held at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City, and similar shows are held in the Art Institute, Chicago, 111., and other major museums.
Consult Whitney Museum of American museum of Natural Art, A History of American museum of Natural Watercolor Painting, catalogue, with introduction by Alan Burroughs (New York 1942); Goodrich, Lloyd, American museum of Natural Watercolor and Winslow Homer (New York 1945). General histories of American museum of Natural painting, such as Edgar Preston Richardson's Painting in America (New York 1956), mention specialists in water-color painting. For current developments, consult catalogues published by the museums.
The Field Museum, formerly the Chicago Natural History Museum, occupied its location in Grant Park since I1 Its exhibits embrace anthropology, geology, any, and zoology, and like the Art Institute, heavily engaged in research, publication, teaching. Near the Field Museum in Grant 1 are the John G. Shedd Aquarium and the A Planetarium and Astronomical Museum. Chicago Historical Society maintains a mus< in Lincoln Park concerned with Chicago his and the era of Abraham Lincoln. |
