Westervelt-Warner Museum of American Art

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The Westervelt Warner Museum of American Art is a privately-owned art museum located at 8316 Mountbatten Road Northeast in Tuscaloosa. It houses the collection of Jack Westervelt Warner, CEO of the Gulf States Paper Corporation.

The museum's collection of over 400 pieces includes masterworks by notable American artists such as Thomas Cole, Duncan Phyfe, Paul Revere, Andrew Wyeth, John Singer Sargeant, Winslow Homer, James McNeill Whistler and Mary Cassatt. Decorative artworks include silver objects made by Paul Revere and furniture made by Duncan Phyfe, Charles Honore Lannuier and Joseph Barry. The collection ranges from the late 18th to the early 20th century and includes portraits from life of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette.

The museum is housed in well-appointed furnished galleries in a fieldstone-clad building overlooking Lake Tuscaloosa.

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