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The Sheldon Swope Art Museum in Terre Haute, Indiana, was originally funded by a bequest from Michael Sheldon Swope (1843-1929), a Civil War veteran and jeweler who lived in Terre Haute much of his adult life. Planning for the art museum began on September 26, 1939, and the museum was officially open to the public in March 1942. According to its mission statement, the museum exists "to collect, preserve, exhibit, and interpret the best of American art, with special emphasis on painting and sculpture of the first half of the twentieth century and on Wabash Valley artists past and present."^[1]

In addition to housing numerous important works, Swope Art Museum offers summer classes for youth, artist lectures and exhibitions. They sponsor an annual student art exhibition, a tradition which began in May 1967.^[2]

[edit] Collection

The founding collection of the museum, assembled by its first director John Rogers Cox, focuses on American regionalism and consists of works by Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Edward Hopper, Charles Burchfield and Zoltan Sepeshy. The museum has expanded to include art from the second half of the 20th century, including works by Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder, Robert Motherwell, Robert Indiana and Eva Hesse. One gallery is devoted the Hoosier Group and Indiana artists.

Terre Haute artists in the Swope collection include James Farrington Gookins, Janet Scudder, Amalia Küssner Coudert, Caroline Peddle Ball, Gilbert Wilson and Leroy Lamis.

In its many temporary exhibitions, the Swope Art Museum has highlighted work from numerous local artists including Sister Edith Pfau and John Laska.

[edit] Recognition

In November 2010, USA Today named the Swope one of ten great places to see art in smaller cities.^[3]

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