American Art at the Speed

This exhibition features paintings, works on paper, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts from the museum’s American and Kentucky collections.

Mirroring the historical scope of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery exhibition, often with a fascinating regional perspective, the exhibition highlights works by John James Audubon, Asa Blanchard, Matthew Harris Jouett, Gideon Shyrock, and Rookwood Pottery, as well as James Peale, Thomas Sully, Elihu Vedder, Frederic Remington, and others. A number of the works in the Speed’s companion exhibition are by artists also represented in Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness and thus offer a unique complement to Yale’s collection. Admission is free.