Collection of Carnegie Museum of Art


Founded in 1895 by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, the Carnegie Museum of Art is located in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  The museum is distinguished by its collection of American and European pieces from the sixteenth century through the present.  The permanent collection holds over 35,000 works including European and American paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, and photography.  The museum is home to one of the world’s largest collections of plaster casts of architectural masterpieces.  Carnegie favored works of his contemporaries such as Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent and the French Impressionists.


1887 Le Moulin de la Galette Painting Le-Moulin-de-la-Galette
1890 Wheat Fields at Auvers Under Clouded Sky Painting Wheat-Fields-at-Auvers-Under-Clouded-Sky





Sheaves of Wheat in A Field Geranium in a Flowerpot Portrait of Old Man with Beard Portrait of a Woman with Red Ribbon Self Portrait with Dark Felt Hat
Sheaves of Wheat in A Field Geranium in a Flowerpot Portrait of Old Man with Beard Portrait of a Woman with Red Ribbon Self Portrait with Dark Felt Hat
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