18th and 19th Century American Paintings and Sculpture

Permanent event at The Gibbes museum in Charleston, United States

1 December 2018

18th and 19th Century American Paintings and Sculpture. Courtesy of The Gibbes museum

American paintings, from colonial portraits to Civil War-era landscapes, occupy the Gibbes Main Gallery. Portraits of leading political, social, and military figures include works by Jeremiah Theus, Henry Benbridge, Benjamin West, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully and Samuel F.B. Morse.

The gallery also features landscape and genre scenes by Angelica Kaufmann, Louis Mignot, Eastman Johnson, Conrad Wise Chapman, and William Aiken Walker.

The paintings collection is complemented by examples of neoclassical sculpture on view in the Campbell Rotunda, and decorative art objects on loan from the Rivers Collection.

The Gibbes museum

The Gibbes Museum enhances lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality, by collecting and preserving art that touches Charleston, and by providing opportunities to learn, to discover, to enjoy, and to be inspired by the creative process.

Museum profile

Location

Charleston, United States

Founded in

1858

18th and 19th Century American Paintings and Sculpture. Courtesy of The Gibbes museum
18th and 19th Century American Paintings and Sculpture. Courtesy of The Gibbes museum
18th and 19th Century American Paintings and Sculpture. Courtesy of The Gibbes museum

18th and 19th Century American Paintings and Sculpture. Courtesy of The Gibbes museum
18th and 19th Century American Paintings and Sculpture. Courtesy of The Gibbes museum
18th and 19th Century American Paintings and Sculpture. Courtesy of The Gibbes museum