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Terra Foundation for American Art Europe Library

The Paris center offers a research library devoted exclusively to American art, including rare materials as well as digital resources. The library holdings, while not comprehensive, consist of nearly 9,000 books and catalogs covering American art from the eighteenth century to the 1980s, with particular emphasis on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The collection includes books on fine arts, decorative arts, and photography as well as monographs on artists born or active in the United States. The library 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. Digital resources offered on site include JSTOR and ProQuest (American Periodical Series and International Bibliography of Art).

Opening Hours
The library is open to the public from September through May on Mondays from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm as well as by appointment on other days. It is open by appointment only during June and July.
The library is closed on national holidays as well as the week between Christmas and New Year's Day and in August.
Please reserve by email at library@terraamericanart.eu or by phone +33 1 43 20 82 65.

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