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Can’t Get to the Whitney or Louvre? Try Texas.

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From Associated Press

Winslow Homer’s watercolor “The Woodcutter,” Fitz Hugh Lane’s “Sunset at Gloucester Harbor” and Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Open Clam Shell” and “Closed Clam Shell” cannot be viewed at any museum in New York City or Paris.

They’re in Texas--where they usually aren’t on public display at all. But those and nearly 60 other pieces borrowed from private, public and corporate collections across the state are on display through Nov. 17 at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth.

“Celebrating America: Masterworks From Texas Collections” features paintings, sculptures, watercolors and photographs by celebrated artists from 1771 to 1969.

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Through the exhibit, John Singleton Copley’s early 1770s oil portraits of Jabez and Sarah Brown Bowen, a wealthy and influential New England couple, have been reunited for the first time in 20 years.

The paintings were together for more than two centuries, including an extended display at the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design. But the portraits were sold--his to someone in Houston, hers to someone in Amarillo, Texas--in the early 1980s through the Kennedy Galleries of New York.

When Jane Myers, the museum’s chief curator, found out that both were in Texas, she worked to include them in the exhibit.

Myers said she also was surprised that some corporations had such extensive art collections.

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