Having first opened its doors to the public in 1931, the Addison gallery of American Art is located on the campus of Phillips Academy and strives to carry out the aims and mission of its founder Thomas Cochran, who stated those aims as “to enrich permanently the lives of the students of Phillips Academy, by helping to cultivate and foster in them a love for the beautiful.” The museum’s collection now consists of over twelve thousand works, including paintings, prints, sculptures, decorative arts, drawings and photography that trace a lineage of art from Colonial to present times, with such artists as Copely, Revere, Eakins, Homer, Whistler, Watkins, Muybridge, Prendergast, Sloan, Hopper, O’Keefe, and many others, being represented.