Patron and former member of VMFA’s Board of Trustees Jane Joel Knox has a long history of service and philanthropy to the museum, which includes her many gifts of art. The present focus exhibition marks an opportunity to celebrate selections from Ms. Knox’s impressive collection of American art. The Knox collection charts artists’ engagements with Impressionism, landscape painting, still life, and academically informed styles from the nineteenth through the early twentieth century. Equally important, almost every work in her collection attests to the keen importance of European study and travel for American artists in these years.