During your visit to this Youngstown art museum, explore its world-renowned collection that spans over three centuries and explores United States history. At the Butler Institute of American Art Gift Shop, a unique shopping experience awaits you.
Butler Institute of American Art Permanent Collection
The Butler Institute of American Art is recognized for its permanent art collection of over 20,000 individual works of American art that span four centuries and illustrate the dynamic changes America has experienced over the years.
19th Century Holdings
Among the most celebrated works in the Butler Institute of American Art is Winslow Homer’s Snap the Whip, one of the famed tributes to the era of the one-room schoolhouse. A second version of Snap the Whip is housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, but slightly differs: Butler’s painting features mountains in the background, while the Metropolitan Museum’s Snap the Whip does not. Additional highlights of the art museum’s 19th century holdings include Roadside Meeting by Albert Pinkham Ryder, After the Hunt by William Michael Harnett and two magnificent portraits by American realist Thomas Eakins.
Hudson River School Painters
Hudson River School painters who pay tribute to beloved American regions are well represented in this Ohio museum. Delight in works of art by Seth Eastman, Thomas Cole, Asher Brown Durand and Thomas Doughty.
Marine Collection
The Butler Institute of American Art’s Marine Collection spans over four decades. View works by artists such as Fitz Hugh Lane, Martin Johnson, Heade Edward Moran, John Marin and Arthur G. Dove.
American Impressionism
With works such as In Flanders Fields also known as Where Soldiers Sleep and Poppies Grow by Robert Vonnoh, American Impressionism is well represented in the Butler’s permanent collection. Other examples of American Impressionism include works by Edward Potthast, Theodore Robinson, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt and Gari Melchers.
American Western Collection
The American Western Collection is renowned for its prized works. Showcasing Native American portraits and sensitive canvases depicting Hopi life by Elbridge Ayer Burbank and Oregon Trail, a painting by Albert Bierstadt as its centerpiece, the American Western Collection has become a historical record of the American experience.
20th Century Holdings
Paintings by members of The Eight include Café Francis by George Luks as well as other important works by artists such as John Sloan, Robert Henri, Maurice Prendergast, Everett Shinn, Kenneth Hayes Miller, Charles Sheeler, and Georgia O'Keeffe . Additional 20th century works include Pennsylvania Coal Town by Edward Hopper, September Wind and Rain by Charles Burchfield and contemporary masterpieces by Robert Rauschenberg, Chuck Close and George Segal.
Donnell Gallery of American Sports Art
The Butler Institute of American Art’s Donnell Gallery of American Sports Art features works of art from virtually every sport. Highlights include boxing subjects by George Bellows and Andy Warhol’s portrait of Major League Baseball player Pete Rose.
- Be sure to visit the Butler Institute of American Art Gift Shop. Greeting cards, reproductions of paintings from the Butler's permanent collections, pottery, jewelry, and unique items for every gift-giving occasion are available to purchase.
- In addition to its permanent collection, the Butler Institute of American Art features temporary exhibitions.