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Saginaw Art Museum (Visit this link)

American and European artists of the 19th and 20th centuries create the majority
of the Museum's paintings, photographs and works on paper. Highlights include
works on paper by well-known masters such as Edouard Manet , Henri Matisse,
Thomas Dewing, Marc Chagall , Roy Lichtenstein, Pablo Picasso and Wassily
Kandinsky. Paintings in the Museum's collection include works by Corot , Sir
Thomas Lawrence , Carle Van_Loo , Jasper Cropsey and Robert Hopkin.



Specialty areas within the Museum's collection are works on paper by Charles
Adams Platt and John Rogers' Civil War Era sculptural groups. The Museum also
boasts the work of Saginaw's most famous artist, Eanger Irving Couse. Couse was
a founding member of the Taos, New Mexico Artists Colony, and his name is
synonymous with the American West. The Museum's Couse Gallery displays paintings
and drawings by this artist.



The Museum's Asian art collection is comprised of a large T'ang Dynasty (618-907
CE) marble Buddha which is on permanent display. In celebration of Saginaw's
sister-city relationship with Tokushima, Japan, textiles, decorative art pieces
and over fifty Japanese color woodcuts from the 19th and 20th century are also
included.

http://www.saginawartmuseum.org