The last major exhibition before the Smith College Museum of Art closes for a two-and-a-half-year renovation and expansion project, American Spectrum is the centerpiece of the fall season, a semester-long exploration of American art. It coincides with the release of a scholarly catalogue of the American collection, Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from the Smith College Museum of Art, edited by Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture Linda Muehlig, and published by Hudson Hills Press. The installation at Smith is the first stop in an eight-site national tour.

"With the advent of the millennium and a new building campaign on the immediate horizon, the publication of this catalogue offers the opportunity to revisit the past, by celebrating the masterworks of this institution’s inaugural collections, and to look forward to the museum’s future."

--Linda Muehlig

from the introduction to Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from the Smith College Museum of Art