Drawn from the Addison Gallery of American Art’s renowned collection, Coming of Age focuses on the key movements that developed during a period in which American art took its place on the international stage. Featuring seventy-one exquisite paintings, it begins with mid-nineteenth-century landscapes by such masters as Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Edwin Church, and artists of the Hudson River School that embody the new nationalism of the time. In the later nineteenth-century, artists such as Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins applied the lens of an aggressive realism to their subjects, while John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler brought a new degree of experimentation and painterliness to their artwork. Turn-of-the-century works by such American Impressionists as Childe Hassam and Maurice Prendergast demonstrate how American artists adapted European Impressionism to their subjects, and are contrasted with the exuberant paint application and rich tonalities of the Ashcan School artists, including Robert Henri and John Sloan. Twentieth-century modernist masterpieces by Stuart Davis, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Marsden Hartley, among others, establish the foundations for mid-century abstract works by artists including Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, László Moholy-Nagy, and Jackson Pollock; works that firmly positioned American art at the vanguard in the international art world for decades to come. The selection offered here represents a comprehensive look at the major artistic developments that transpired during this extraordinary one hundred year period in American art history.