Wilmerding Collection (NGA)

The National Gallery of Art has mounted an exhibition called the John Wilmerding Collection: "American Masters from Bingham to Eakins," and has placed a generous selection of works online.  The exhibition can be approached in a number of ways --

A single page introduction;

A four-page history of Mr. Wilmerding and the collection he gathered; 

A twenty-seven page Highlights section;

A zoomable slideshow; and a   

A checklist with images of all 51 works in the exhibition.

My favorite part is the "Highlights" section.  Here are a few of my favorite works therein --

Stage Rocks and Western Shore of Gloucester Outer Harbor, 1857, by Fitz Hugh Lane.

Seated Man,  1863, by Eastman Johnson

Take Your Choice, 1885, by John Frederick Peto.

Northeast Harbor, Maine, 1895, by William Stanley Haseltine.

This exhibition is so good that even the Credits page is beautiful! Take a look -- Sunrise over Schoodic, early 1870s, by William Trost Richards.