Hunter Art Museum, Chattanooga, Tn

We left Cloudland Canyon State Park, drove to Chattanooga, and with about six hours to kill, tried for the Chattanooga Aquarium, but it was totally crowded, so we tried for the Hunter Art Museum of American Art, and what a find.  A superb collection covering all periods, and all periods with a number of great examples of the best.  Well worth a visit.  Who knew?
A lot of art to look at.

William Merritt Chase (1849-1916)

The Croquet Game

circa 1889

Francis Luis Mora (1874-1940)

An Out of Town Trolley

1916

Childe Hassam (1859-1935)

French Tea Garden (also known as Terra Cotta Tea Set)

1910

Childe Hassam (1859-1935)

Reading

1888

View from inside the museum to the Tennessee River

Tiffany & Co. 

Coffee Set

1902

Sorry, I lost this info.

Beth Lipman (b.1971)

Flowers, Bread, Chalice and Sticks

2012

Severin Roesen (circa 1815-1872)

Nature's Bounty

circa 1852-54

N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945)

Just as the baby's feet cleared the ground Padfoot

leaped into the air and buried his teeth into the feathers

of his old enemy.

1923 magazine illustration

Thomas Hart Benton

The Wreck of the Ole '97

1943

Rockwell Kent (1882-1970)

Glen (Ireland)

1926-27

George I. K. Morris (1905-1975)

Arizona Altar

1949

Reginald Marsh (1895-1954)

(Gaiety) Burlesque

circa 1930-33

Paul Jenkins (1923-2012

Phenomena Royal Violet Visitation

1977

This canvas was about 8 feet wide

Kahn and Selesnick (b.1964)

Currency Balloon 

2008

detail of above

Chuck Close (b.1940)

Self-Portrait

2007

Dale Chihuly (b. 1941)

Macchia

1986

Stephen Rolfe Powell, b. 1951

Torrid Lascivious Gasp

2001

The title is almost as great as the work of art. 

George Inness (1825-1894)

Rosy Morning

1894

Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904)

Thorntails, Brazil

circa 1863-65

It is always such a pleasure to come across one of these miniatures.

Edward Moran (1829-1901)

Burning of the "Philadelphia"

Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860)

Portrait of George Washington