American Made: Paintings and Sculpture from the DeMell Jacobsen Collection

Oct 15, 2026 – Jan 24, 2027

American Made: Paintings and Sculpture from the DeMell Jacobsen Collection features more than 100 works of art by renowned American artists such as John Singer Sargent, Elizabeth Catlett, Mary Cassatt, Robert Henri, Sarah Miriam Peale, Thomas Cole, and Charles Alston, among others.

Drawn entirely from the DeMell Jacobsen Collection, the exhibition beautifully surveys the distinctive styles and thought-provoking art created by American artists over the past two centuries.

Though many objects from the DeMell Jacobsen Collection have been on view at other museums, ranging from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, this is the first exhibition to bring the best of the collection together in one location.

The exhibition begins with portraits by masters including Rembrandt Peale and Thomas Sully before moving on to highlight the development of mid-19th-century landscape painting with works by Asher B. Durand, John Frederick Kensett, and others.

Enticing images of fruits, flowers, and other delights by Severin Roesen, John Francis, Ferdinand Richardt, Elizabeth Williams, and Adelaide Coburne Palmer are featured alongside trompe l’oeil examples by William Michael Harnett, John Haberle, and John Peto.

Twentieth-century modernism and realism can be seen in works by artists ranging from Patrick Henry Bruce and Marsden Hartley to Paul Cadmus, Charmion von Wiegand, Suzy Frelinghuysen, Elizabeth Catlett, and Ernie Barnes.

The mission of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen Ph.D. Foundation to “carefully research and obtain American masterpieces” is abundantly represented in American Made.

American Made was curated by Todd Herman, PhD, President and CEO of The Mint Museum; Kevin Sharp, Director of the Dixon Gallery and Gardens; and Jonathan Stuhlman, PhD, Senior Curator of American Art at The Mint Museum.

This exhibition is on view October 15, 2026-January 24, 2027, with an Opening Celebration on Saturday, October 10, and Member Preview Day October 11.

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John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), Elsie Wagg, 1894, oil on canvas, courtesy of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation.

Wilhelm Hunt Diederich (1884-1953), Diana and Hound, circa 1930, bronze with dark brown patina, courtesy of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation

Luigi Lucioni (1900-88), An American Landscape, 1930, oil on canvas, courtesy of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation

Robert Henri (1865-1929), Chow Choy, 1913, oil on canvas, courtesy of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation

Thomas Moran (1837-1926), Moonlight in Venice, 1898, oil on wood board. Courtesy of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation

Allan Rohan Crite (1910-2007) Play at Dark, 1935, oil on canvas board, courtesy of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation

Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860),George Washington, Porthole Portrait,circa 1846, oil on canvas, courtesy of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation

Paul Kelpe (1902-85), Man and Machinery, circa 1934, oil on canvas, courtesy of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), Baby Charles Looking Over His Mother’s Shoulder (No. 3), 1900, oil on canvas, courtesy of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation

Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson (1847-1906), Honey of Hymettus, 1891, oil on canvas, courtesy of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation

Raymond Jonson (1891-1982), Composition Eleven – Rain (Opus to Vera), 1931, oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation. © University of New Mexico Art Museum

Sarah Miriam Peale (1800-85), Portrait of Sarah Anne Walter Deming, circa 1829, oil on canvas, courtesy of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation

William J. McCloskey (1859-1941), Basket of Apples, 1896, oil on canvas, courtesy of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation (cover image above)