Tuscaloosa Museum of Art, Art museum in Tuscaloosa, United States.
The Tuscaloosa Museum of Art, formerly the Westervelt-Warner Museum of American Art, was an art museum in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Its collection held more than 500 works made from 1775 onward, including paintings by John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, Albert Bierstadt, Edward Hopper and Mary Cassatt. It closed permanently in 2018.
The museum was founded in 2003 as the Westervelt-Warner Museum of American Art and renamed in 2011. Its creation was rooted in a private collection assembled over several decades by a local businessman.
Jack Warner, CEO of Gulf States Paper (later the Westervelt Company), built the collection around his personal hero George Washington, including John Faed's painting of Washington taking the salute at Trenton. Works by John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, Edward Hopper, Mary Cassatt and Albert Bierstadt hung alongside these pieces. The museum opened in 2003 after portions of the collection were shown in the company headquarters.
The museum was located at Jack Warner Parkway in Tuscaloosa and was accessible to visitors interested in American art. The museum closed in 2018 and is no longer open for visits.
Warner's personal hero was George Washington, and he gathered several works depicting him, among them John Faed's Portrait of George Washington Taking the Salute at Trenton. When the Westervelt Company closed the museum in 2018, part of the art was kept in the company headquarters and the rest was prepared for sale.
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