The Mead Art Museum is an art museum located in Amherst (Massachusetts, USA). It is a structural unit of Amherst College .
| Art Museum of Mead | |
|---|---|
| Mead art museum | |
 Tower next to Mead Art Building | |
| Established | 1949 year |
| Address |  USA : Amherst , Massachusetts |
| Site | amherst.edu/museums/mead/ |
The museum has a collection of approximately 19,000 exhibits, consisting primarily of American art, including famous works by representatives of the Hudson River School , as well as European, Japanese and ancient art. There is a significant collection of Russian modernism, complementing the Amherst Center for Russian Culture .
The museum is named after William Rutherford Mead , co-founder of the famous architectural bureau McKim, Mead & White , who graduated from Amherst College in 1867 . After the death of William Mead and his wife, property of spouses without children was transferred to the trustees of Amherst College. With these funds, in 1949 the Mead Art Building [1] was developed, developed by McKim, Mead & White, where the museum is currently located.
The museum’s benefactors included Herbert L. Pratt , 1871-1945, an American businessman and art collector. When the Rotherwas Court house in the English city of Herefordshire was put up for sale in 1913, Pratt acquired it and donated the room to the Museum.