Tennessee State Museum

Welcome to the Tennessee State Museum’s Online Collections portal. This represents only a small sampling of the Museum’s collection. More artifacts will be added on an ongoing basis. If you have any questions or don't find what you are looking for, please email us at collections@tnmuseum.org.

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Canvassing Tennessee: Artists and their Environments

The natural beauty of Tennessee has long inspired artists to paint their surroundings, from the Mississippi Delta to the Great Smoky Mountains and beyond. Whether professionally trained or self-taught, native to Tennessee or visiting, artists have captured the ever-changing natural and built environments through their work. Some of these artists used their craft to offer perspectives of their travels across the world. Other artists’ work now depict moments in Tennessee’s history, such as the Native American community of Toqua, the popularity of nineteenth century health resorts, military encampments, and hardships of sharecropping in the early twentieth century. Through this artistry, both beauty and history have been visually recorded to teach and inspire.

Found 196 record(s)

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Item Selection	Available Actions	Object ID	Image	Synopsis
		1.834		Sheep Shearing Incident \| Painting \| Branson, Lloyd \| White, Elizabeth Carrick \| White, Hugh Lawson \| Knoxville, TN \| Landscape \| sheep \| Livestock \| Knox County \| Genre Picture
		1.835		Belle Isle from Lyon's View \| Painting \| Cameron, James \| Knoxville, TN \| Tennessee River \| Knox County \| Lyon's View \| Belle Isle \| Landscape
		3.344		"The Original Hermitage" \| Painting \| Hankins, Cornelius \| The Hermitage \| Jackson, Andrew \| Nashville, TN \| Davidson County \| Landscape
		10.270		"Stump Speaking at Knoxville" \| Painting \| Polk, James K. \| Van Buren, Martin \| Knoxville, TN \| United States President \| Governors of Tennessee \| Democrat
		78.43.27		Abstract Landscape \| Painting \| Hergesheimer, Ella S \| Nashville, TN \| Nashville Art Association \| Landscape \| Davidson County
		78.43.28		Abstract Landscape \| Painting \| Hergesheimer, Ella S \| Nashville, TN \| Nashville Art Association \| Davidson County \| Landscape
		79.119.1		Pleasant View, Tenn. on U.S. Highway 41A \| Painting \| Bradley, Mary Frances \| Pleasant View, TN \| Bradley, John Foster \| Cheatham County \| Landscape \| Watkins Institute \| Woodson's Store \| U.S. Route 41 Alternate \| Townscape
		79.132.11		Vista \| Painting \| Carlos, Edward \| Monteagle, TN \| Sewanee, TN \| Tennessee American Revolution Bicentennial Art Exhibition \| University of the South, Sewanee \| Franklin County \| Landscape
		79.132.26		"Pastoral #1" \| Painting \| Harrison, Charles L \| Tennessee American Revolution Bicentennial Art Exhibition \| Johnson City, TN \| Landscape \| pastoral
		79.148		Landscape \| Painting \| Munn, Alice Ballard \| Tennessee American Revolution Bicentennial
		79.162		"Cumberland River Near Nashville" \| Painting \| Bott, Emil \| Cumberland River \| Nashville, TN \| water transportation \| Steamboat \| Davidson County \| Landscape
		80.60		"Interstate Incident" \| Painting \| Langdon, Steve \| University of Memphis \| Tennessee Arts Commission \| Memphis, TN \| Tennessee Painting Today 1967 \| Shelby County \| Tennessee Arts Commission Collection
		80.84		"Aunt Rhody" \| Painting \| Cloar, Carroll \| Agriculture \| Tennessee Arts Commission \| Music, Folk \| Memphis, TN \| Shelby County \| Genre Picture
		80.109		"Winter Landscape" \| Painting \| Lehman, Louise \| Tennessee Arts Commission \| Memphis, TN \| Tennessee Painting Today 1967 \| Shelby County \| Tennessee Arts Commission Collection \| Landscape
		80.110		"Who's Up" \| Painting \| Collins, Jim \| Chattanooga, TN \| Tennessee Arts Commission \| Tennessee Painting Today 1967 \| Hamilton County \| Tennessee Arts Commission Collection \| University of Tennessee, Chattanooga \| Genre Picture
		80.114		"Enter Into My Garden" \| Painting \| LeDoux, David Guyce \| Rutherford County \| Woodbury, TN \| Murfreesboro, TN \| Middle Tennessee State University \| Tennessee Arts Commission \| Tennessee Painting Today 1967 \| Tennessee Arts Commission Collection \| Landscape
		80.184.3		Grundy Place, Nashville \| Painting \| McGavock, Felix Grundy \| Grundy, Felix \| Polk, James K. \| Nashville, TN \| Architecture \| Grundy Place \| Polk Place \| Davidson County \| Landscape
		81.179.5		"Pumpkin Patch" \| Painting \| Campbell, Thomas \| Maryville, TN \| Blount County \| Nicholson Art League
		81.209		"Off Hillsboro Road" \| Painting \| Hankins, Cornelius \| Nashville, TN \| Landscape \| Davidson County
		81.232.3		"Fountain Creek Mill" \| Painting \| Boatright, John \| Columbia, TN \| Maury County \| Fountain Creek, TN \| Mill, water \| Creek \| The Early Eighties Exhibit \| Landscape

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