Terra Foundation for American Art Europe Library
The Paris center has a research library devoted exclusively to American art which includes rare materials in its collection as well as digital resources. Unique in Europe while not comprehensive, the library holdings consist of approximately 5,500 books and catalogues covering American art from the eighteenth century to the 1980s, specializing in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The library includes books on fine arts, decorative arts, and photography as well as monographs on artists born or active in the United States. The collection is particularly rich in resources on painting, including several important groups of monographs, and exhibition and collection catalogues produced in Europe and in the United States. Books on history, philosophy, literature, and visual culture of the United States are available in order to study American art in a larger cultural and historic context.
The collection is available for in-house consultation with a reading room capacity of 12 seats. The library is open on Tuesdays and Thursdays, by appointment only, to university students, professors, museum professionals, and independent scholars.
For more information and appointments, please contact us by phone: +33 1 43 20 82 65 or by email: library@terraamericanart.eu.
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