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Tuscaloosa / Estados Unidos

Tuscaloosa é uma cidade localizada no estado americano do Alabama. O seu nome provém do chefe dos Choctaws, Tuskalusa, que batalhou contra Hernando de Soto em 1540, na Batalha de Mauvilla, onde foi derrotado. Mais conhecida por albergar a fundação da Universidade do Alabama, a cidade é também um centro industrial, comercial e educacional de referência no oeste do estado.

Tuscaloosa Museum of Art

Tuscaloosa / Estados Unidos

The Tuscaloosa Museum of Art, previously the Westervelt-Warner Museum of American Art, was an art museum in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The museum permanently closed in 2018. It was founded by Tuscaloosa businessman Jack Warner.The Westervelt-Warner Museum of American Art was the result of 40 years of collecting American art by Jack Warner, CEO of Gulf States Paper, later the Westervelt Company. He founded the museum in 2003 after exhibiting portions of the collection in the headquarters building of the Westervelt Company.The Westervelt-Warner collection contains more than 500 works from 1775 onwards. Artists represented include John Singer Sargent and Childe Hassam as well as several artists of importance to American Art, including Albert Bierstadt, Rembrandt Peale, Edward Hicks, Thomas Moran, Edward Hopper, Robert Henri, Edward Potthast, and Charles Bird King. Other artists' works include James McNeill Whistler, Andrew Wyeth, Mary Cassatt, and James Peale.In 2011, the Westervelt-Warner Museum became the Tuscaloosa Museum of Art.