The Hunter Museum of American Art is a museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee, built on an 80 foot bluff above the Tennessee River. It occupies a mansion built in 1904 in the classical revival style by architect Abram Garfield, son of President James A. Garfield, and the museum was established in 1952 through the Benwood Foundation created by George Hunter and Anne Thomas. The building grew through a brutalist addition in 1975 and a contemporary addition designed by Randall Stout in 2005 that now serves as its main entrance, and the combined structure received national recognition in 2006 for its structural steel design. The museum holds more than 3,000 works of American art from the colonial period to the present, described as the most complete collection of American art in the Southeast, and draws about 65,000 visitors a year. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Hunter Museum of American Art is an art museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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The museum is situated on an 80-foot (24 m) bluff overlooking the Tennessee River, the Walnut Street Bridge, and downtown Chattanooga. The Faxon House, built in 1904, was built where a Confederate battery had been emplaced.
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The Hunter Museum of American Art is an art museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The museum's collections include works representing the Hudson River School, 19th century genre painting, American Impressionism, the Ashcan School, early modernism, regionalism, and post-World War II modern and contemporary art.
The building itself represents three distinct architectural stages: the original 1904 classi
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The building itself represents three distinct architectural stages: the original 1904 classical revival mansion designed by Abram Garfield, the son of president James A. Garfield, which has housed the museum since its opening in 1952, a brutalist addition built in 1975, and a 2005 addition designed by Randall Stout which now serves as the entrance to the museum.
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