Montclair Art Museum

The Montclair Art Museum in the namesake suburb of northern New Jersey was founded in 1909 and opened in 1914 in a neoclassical building by architect Albert Ross. The initiative came from collector William T. Evans and the local painter George Inness Jr., whose father - Hudson River School landscape artist George Inness Sr. - had lived and worked in Montclair. The museum collects American art across all eras and now holds more than 12,000 works, with particular strengths in the Hudson River School, American Impressionism, and Native American art, especially of the Southwest and the Plains. Rotating exhibitions often spotlight contemporary Indigenous artists. Visitors reach the museum in 35 minutes by train from New York Penn Station and find an unusually focused suburban museum with a first-rank collection.