National Museum of Art/Parsons Hall

The Parsons Hall is the seventh hall of the National Museum of Art at the main building. This gallery focuses on American and Lovian art. The vast majority of the works in the hall came from the collection of Mrs. Janet Parsons (1896-1979). She was a Brunanter-American art collector who bequeathed her collection of American artworks to the museum.

The Collection
The collection consists mostly of 19th and 20th century American, Canadian and Lovian artworks. The bulk of the collection focuses on American impressionist art, mostly from W.M. Chase, Mary Cassatt and Childe Hassam. The Canadian works are by Tom Thompson and the Group of Seven, which created a definitive Canadian style in the 1920s.