Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton MA
(Read about Parts 1 and 2 of our trip.)
I was blown away by the Smith College Museum of Art. We could have easily spent two hours on just the top two floors of this museum alone.
They have a tremendous collection of 19th-century French paintings (including Monet, Seurat, Renoir, Gauguin, Cézanne) and some excellent American art as well.
Patrick explains the finer points of a Thomas Eakins painting to his sister
All in all, this museum offered much more than I was expecting to find on the campus of a small western Massachusetts liberal arts college.
If you go, make sure you use the bathrooms in the basement. They alone are worth the (very modest) price of admission.
Edward Hopper's painting of Pretty Penny, Nyack NY