Benjamin West
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · Houston, United States · Acquired 2020 · Accession 2020.216 · Oil on paper mounted to canvas
Gift of the Honorable Joseph P. Carroll, KM and Prof. Roberta L. Carroll, MD
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · Houston, United States · Acquired 2020 · Accession 2020.501 · Oil on paper mounted to canvas
Gift of the Honorable Joseph P. Carroll, KM and Prof. Roberta L. Carroll, MD
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · Houston, United States · Acquired 2020 · Accession 2020.502 · Oil on canvas
Gift of the Honorable Joseph P. Carroll, KM and Prof. Roberta L. Carroll, MD
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · Houston, United States · Acquired 2018 · Accession 2018.126 · Oil on canvas
Museum purchase funded by the Long Endowment for American Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2016 · Accession 2016.349 · Graphite
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2016
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, United States · Acquired 2015 · Accession 2015.217.1 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, tipped onto mount with aquatint border in brown on cream wove paper
Prints and Drawings Purchase Fund
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2015 · Accession 2015.653.26 · Wood engraving
Gift of Donato Esposito, 2015
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · Houston, United States · Acquired 2014 · Accession B.2014.8 · Lithograph on wove paper mounted on the original wove support sheet with gray-brown aquatint
The Bayou Bend Collection, funded by the Museum Collectors in memory of Michael K. Brown
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2010 · Accession 2010.144 · Brown ink applied by brush and pen, black chalk underdrawing; laid paper prepared with a light golden brown wash
Gift of Maurice J. Cotter, in memory of his mother, Muriel Josephine Cotter (1902–2003), 2010
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · Houston, United States · Acquired 2007 · Accession 2007.1461.A,.B · Black chalk, pen and brown ink and watercolor, heightened with touches of white, grey and blue bodycolor and brown wash, on oatmeal paper
Museum purchase funded by the Long Endowment for American Art and the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund, with additional gifts in honor of Meredith Long and Company on the occasion …
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2003 · Accession 2003.192 · Pen and brown ink on wove paper
Bequest of Thomas Rayner Todd, 2002
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2003 · Accession 2003.436 · Pen and brown ink, brown ink washes, black chalk, and graphite on off-white (now oxidized) laid paper.
Gift of Diane, Daniel, and Mathew Wolf, in memory of Diane R. Wolf, 2003
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$8.3K – $445K
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$231K
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$266K
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Sep 2023 · $8.3K
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Paintings: $266K medianWorks on paper: $4.8K median
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Publications1

Exhibition Catalog 1

Yale University Press · 2013
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) have launched "A Nation of Artists," a massive dual-museum e…
exhibitionsApr 17, 2026
The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) have launched "A Nation of Artists," a massive collaborative…
exhibitionsApr 11, 2026
The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) have launched a massive joint exhibition titled "A Nation of Artists,"…
exhibitionsApr 10, 2026
A Nobilified, a start-up that lets customers insert themselves into classic paintings for about $140, has created a series of artworks depicting Super…
cultureJan 26, 2026
The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, UK, has included British naval hero Horatio Nelson in a "Queer relationships" collection, citing his contested fi…
newsOct 8, 2025
Museums across the United States are hosting "Art in Bloom" exhibitions, where floral artists create custom arrangements inspired by artworks in museu…
exhibitionsApr 29, 2025
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