Sights in Williamstown
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Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute
The Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute is a gem among US art museums. Even if you’re not an avid art lover, don’t miss it. Robert Sterling Clark (1877–1956), a Yale engineer whose family had made money in the sewing machine industry, began collecting art in Paris in 1912. He and his wife eventually housed their wonderful collection in Williamstown in a white marble temple built expressly for the purpose. The collections are particularly strong in the Impressionists. Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent represent contemporary American painting. From earlier centuries, there are excellent works by Hans Memling, Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Francisco de Goya…
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Williams College Museum of Art
The Clark Art Institute’s sister museum is the excellent Williams College Museum of Art. Around half of its 12,000 pieces comprise the American Collection, with substantial works by notables such as Edward Hopper (Morning in a City), Winslow Homer and Grant Wood, to name only a few. The photography collection is equally strong, with representation by Diane Arbus, Man Ray and Alfred Stieglitz. The pieces representing ancient and medieval cultures are less numerous but equally distinguished. The museum also hosts traveling exhibits and stages its own shows with works from community and regional artists. To find the museum, look for the huge bronze eyes embedded in the fro…
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Clark Art Institute
The Clark Art Institute focuses on 19th-century paintings with oodles of Renoirs and other French impressionists as well as a solid collection of American paintings by Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent and others.
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