Try the staff at le musée american in Giverny for starters.  But American
artists from that period are not well known in France, where even Hopper is
novel! (why bring a ham sandwich to a pig roast sort of thing).

Carol Farra
Strasbourg
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De : Amanda Cathryne Burdan <[log in to unmask]>
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Date : Mardi 9 Mars 1999 04:48
Sujet : American art in European museums


>What is the best way to go about looking for work by American artists in
>European collections?  I am searching for the Salon works of lesser known
>artists of the nineteenth century.  While I still haven't exhausted all
>possibilities "at home" I thought I might also look abroad.  Parisian
>collections would be the logical place to start, but are there national
>inventories or indexes I might check?  Somehow I doubt it but I thought I'd
>ask the museum professionals.
>
>Amanda Burdan
>History of Art and Architecture
>Brown University
>